Andrew Lamonica's Photo Blog of Randomness

First post from new Droid

2011-09-28_10-06-27_922
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Pete Pong on Make Mag

My brother created a DIY pong project that was featured on Make Magazine.

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Goodbye Bing Cashback

Goodbye-bing-cashback

Today, Bing discontinues Cashback.  You will no longer be bribed to use Bing to do your shopping.  But it might make shopping on Bing faster (because you won't have to give them your e-mail address or dismiss a popup).

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Very Official Looking

2010-06-22_09

One of Zazzle's competitors has a very official looking Custom Stamps display at the post office.  I wonder how much they had pay for such good placement and USPS branding.

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Amazon to the Rescue

2010-06-14_22

 

Fry's does not seem to sell ergonomic non-wireless keyboards, anymore.  Fortunately, Amazon does.

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CodeJam Round Two in 2 Days

Codejam-round2-in-two-days

I qualified for round two (barely) by placing in the top 1000 of round 1A.  Round two takes place early in the morning on Saturday (PST).  Last year, I failed to make it to round three.

http://code.google.com/codejam
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"It turns out, on the internet, people use Flash"

2010-05-20_09

Now, they will be able to do it on Android Phones.

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New Idea for the Zazzle Data Wall?

(download)

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Morning of the first day of Google I/O

2010-05-19_08
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CodeJam 2010

Codejam-2010
CodeJam Scoreboard

I'm not off to as good a start as last year, but hopefully I will make it to the next round.

 
P.S. I owe at least a dozen points to Petar for suggesting I switch programing languages for Problem B.  Although, he clearly doesn't need any more points.
 
P.P.S. If you want to see some of the ugliest Python code ever written, have a look at my solution to Problem B in 16 hours.
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