tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55388182011-08-18T06:56:38.880-07:00Jason HeissPersonal stuff: links to new pictures, random screeds, etc.Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-47232852971737149722010-11-19T09:52:00.000-08:002010-11-19T09:52:50.566-08:00Sent this to my Senators and Congressman this morning. I figure subtle attacks on the stupid, invasive airport screening system are more likely to succeed than a frontal attack on the system as a whole.
It recently came to my attention that TSA screeners working around the backscatter x-ray scanning machines are not regularly given radiation monitoring badges that are commonly used by workers Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-90695162095998822732010-08-01T10:45:00.000-07:002010-08-01T10:48:40.952-07:00How I Make Apricot or Plum Jam
We have an apricot tree in the back yard that produces a lot of fruit. My favorite thing to do with the surplus is to make apricot jam. Here's my quick and simple recipe:
Halve and pit the fruit. I use a paring knife to slice around the apricot, the pit comes out easily.
Run the fruit through a food mill using a disc with relatively large holes, like 0.8 cm. Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-71445658990852941942010-05-10T16:40:00.000-07:002010-05-10T16:40:01.692-07:00Traffic Services Around Pasadena, CA
Summary: If you have a choice between Clear Channel and NAVTEQ get Clear Channel.
I have a Garmin nüvi 660. It came with an introductory subscription to the Clear Channel Total Traffic Network (TTN) traffic service. At the time that was the only available option, so when the introductory subscription ran out I purchased a year subscription. When that oneJasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-27239737264697018072010-03-31T18:14:00.000-07:002010-03-31T18:14:07.302-07:00College Student and Intern Resumes
Having just reviewed over 200 resumes for an intern position on my team I have a few words of advice for college students writing a resume.
The two most important things on your resume are your education and interesting projects you've done. And by interesting projects I don't mean homework, as I've just seen at least a dozen resumes from USC students with theJasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-85471953589216366662010-03-26T10:53:00.000-07:002010-03-26T10:53:32.946-07:00I've been on a bit of a Flash game kick lately. Here are some of the best I've seen:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/EmitterCritter/fly-hard
http://www.kongregate.com/games/agame/pixel
http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/endless_migrationJasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-31905881575106987022009-04-03T10:00:00.000-07:002009-04-03T10:06:24.735-07:00A comment I sent to NPR this morning about a story on Morning Edition:I was listening to the story about US/Mexico border security this morning and was surprised to hear the reporter (Jason Beaubien) apparently confuse fully-automatic machine guns with semi-automatic guns. For most of the piece he talked about Mexican drug cartels buying semi-automatic rifles ("assault rifles") legally in the USJasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-63267259714057423242008-11-05T11:17:00.001-08:002008-11-05T11:19:50.011-08:00I find it completely staggering that the voters of California would elect a black man as President and put anti-gay language into the state constitution in the same election. WTF? Are we going to go back and re-ban interracial marriage next?Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-77591651051139303452008-10-08T23:21:00.000-07:002008-10-08T23:24:58.514-07:00HTTP status code 417, Expectation Failed, doesn't seem very funny, until you put in on your underwear. HTTP Status Codes Make Funny UnderwearJasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-1161223291614947482006-10-18T18:58:00.000-07:002006-12-21T11:06:46.923-08:00Speeding down the Interstate and wondering what that tanker next to you is carrying? If you've seen more than a few you've noticed that 1203 is the most common and rightly guessed that it is gasoline. But what about the others?The easiest reference seems to be the DOT's Emergency Response Guidebook. Available from the DOT website as a PDF, or for under $10from Amazon.com.Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-1139513257305143412006-02-09T11:23:00.000-08:002006-02-09T11:27:37.313-08:00A friend of mine is working with the BRAAC Airport Action Coalition to oppose expansion of the Solberg Airport near his house in New Jersey.Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-1110943084559459612005-03-15T19:15:00.000-08:002005-03-15T19:18:04.560-08:00My sister's fiancé makes really cool furniture.Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-1096583398494701512004-09-30T15:26:00.000-07:002004-09-30T15:35:25.913-07:00I've been working on my robot, which requires ordering some parts from a reseller that usually does business with real companies. When you call to talk to their sales folks they toss around the terms inside or outside sales. Curious what that meant I went looking for a definition on the web, and had a very hard time finding one. The best I was able to come up with is this page from the US Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-1090441664993606112004-07-21T13:27:00.000-07:002004-07-21T13:27:44.993-07:00This happens to meJasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-1085441612100459892004-05-24T15:52:00.000-07:002009-12-23T16:14:06.196-08:00Hem is a great band. Besides their albums, they've made a handful of MP3s available of other songs they've recorded. They don't have them all listed on the MP3 download page on their website so I thought I'd collect a list here. There have been several other songs that have come and gone from their download page over time. In particular, if you can get ahold of "St. Charlene" I highly Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-1083511028625746712004-05-02T08:16:00.000-07:002004-05-02T08:20:17.793-07:00Buy our houseJasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-1082072395137430602004-04-15T16:39:00.000-07:002004-04-15T16:43:18.513-07:00Several years ago, while riding the ferry out to the San Juans, I wrote up a new system for measuring time. I'm tired of carrying the piece of paper around so I'll put it here for the world to see.
We have this great metric system for measuring mass, volume, etc. But we still have 60 second minutes, 60 minute hours, and 24 hour days. What a mess. Instead I propose a system with 100,000 Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-1079550354684940912004-03-17T11:05:00.000-08:002004-03-17T11:08:18.030-08:00It's big, complicated and scary, but we need to do something about health insurance in the USA. I'm not saying this for my own benefit, I've always worked for employers that provided nice PPO health plans. But the system seems really broken to me.
First off, having employers as the primary providers of health insurance seems weird. You don't get your auto insurance from your employer... Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-1077133774228705442004-02-18T11:49:00.000-08:002004-02-18T11:51:28.983-08:00This San Francisco gay marriage thing (go SF!) has got me thinking. Perhaps we should leave "marriage" to religious organizations and have the state simply recognize "domestic corporations". (I think domestic corporation is more fun than civil union, but whatever.) Really, why does the goverment need to recognize a marriage? For essentially the same reasons that businesses incorporate. To Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-1069221914408573112003-11-18T22:04:00.000-08:002003-11-18T22:05:38.860-08:00Warning, rants ahead. I guess I'm in a bitchy mood this evening.
Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-1069221731628077352003-11-18T21:38:00.000-08:002003-11-18T22:03:07.153-08:00I bought a PalmPilot Professional in 1997 from Fry's. It was the top of the line of the second-generation of what are now Palm PDAs. It served me well for many years but was starting to show its age.
So I went and bought myself a shiny new Palm Zire 21, from Fry's again. I transfered the data I wanted to keep and went on my merry way. Well, until I got to work the next morning and found thatJasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-1069220186763777612003-11-18T21:02:00.000-08:002003-11-18T21:36:50.903-08:00Earlier this year we bought a 2003 Honda Pilot. We wanted a DVD player so we could watch movies while waiting in the ferry lines. Honda only lets you get a DVD player if you get leather seats, which we didn't want. So we decided to have one installed as an aftermarket deal. We went to the Car Toys in Bellevue and looked around, but didn't get a warm, fuzzy feeling from the sales droids. Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-1061491504110644602003-08-21T11:45:00.000-07:002003-08-21T11:45:04.120-07:00Everything that is right and wrong with the operating system market all in one articleJasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-1057763170891141802003-07-09T08:06:00.000-07:002003-07-09T08:06:10.906-07:00Put up the pictures from our trip out to the island this last weekend. Didn't take any pictures of the fireworks though.
Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5538818.post-1057180940215691142003-07-02T14:22:00.000-07:002003-07-02T14:22:53.980-07:00Zar is back! http://www.playzar.com/ Kinda like speed Uno for those who haven't played it.Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07377919426705058481noreply@blogger.com