david ascher

I am so proud of ActiveState today. Read all about it! More coming soon!

Any advice on where to find boxes for pinning dead insects in the Vancouver area?

from siggraph, a cool video on image resizing and more.

My friend Luke and his g/f are looking for an apartment. Help him! Around $1000/mo, 1br Close to transportation that can take him downtown (skytrain, b-line, etc.) Ceilings higher than 6ft Pass info to me, I’ll forward. If you know my activestate email, you can also guess his by knowing that his last name starts [...]

I’ve been quiet lately. One of the reasons is that I’ve been working hard on a facebook application, which we “unveiled” on Wednesday. Now it’s live (although still alpha), so I have a bit of time to talk about it. Why build a facebook app? We’re a technology company. When someone announces a new platform [...]

As a followup to this, I should say: David is not pleased to have tried to fix the electric motor that controls the window in his car. The new (used) motor was a tenth of the cost of a new one, but getting someone to replace the window that I broke in the process will [...]

It truly misleads the non-insiders when version numbers (unlike revision numbers) don’t change for months.

Twitter/facebook status messages do serve an occasional need. David is pleased with his weekend efforts, fixing the hydraulic clutch on the suburban by himself, replacing the converter on the trailer (thereby getting rid of the annoying buzz, and understanding one more bit of the puzzle), and fixing hugo and sylvia’s fishing lines, which he’s sure [...]

Last week over a very nice dinner at Feenie’s, I had a lychee drop cocktail, which was described as lychee juice and sake. I tried to recreate that at home with “lychee nectar” (which is juice-like in consistency, no matter the name) and Gekkeikan sake, which happened to be the only kind in my cupboard. [...]

Heard in the office today. Once the bar is raised, it’s frustrating not to hit it.