http://www.rubinary.com Our Small Place In The Virtual Universe Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:39:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday we went to a new IKEA in Brooklyn, for the 2nd time -- we wanted to get a couple of things for our apartment, but as always most were out of stock. Either way, by the time we were passing the restaurant for the 5th time or so I couldn't ... http://www.rubinary.com/2008/08/18/ikea-food/ After being unable to find a reasonably priced hotel in Cape Cod for Labor Day weekend Maruk suggested remembered about Mountain Springs Lake Resort in Pocono Mountains. Yesterday we made a reservation. Maruk, Alina and their parents reserved a cottage #40 and Alena, my parents, Ignat, Misha and myself will ... http://www.rubinary.com/2008/08/18/pocono-mountains/ There is a bunch of cool little apps that developers are putting out. I think iLightr is one of them. What I don't get is why some people keep whining about that fact that it's useless and demand that Apple doesn't approve those. Don't like it -- don't fucking buy ... http://www.rubinary.com/2008/08/13/ilightr/ I still have a lot of development to do to finish this app up, but here's a short update on progress. The check creation (list display + price entering) screens are ready, so is the screen to set up tip and tax values with persistent data storage. The split itself is ... http://www.rubinary.com/2008/08/13/split-check-entering-info/ We have the weirdest vending machine in our office. That's what I call a good idea and a horrible execution. It runs on nothing else than Linux. It's able to read your finger print and based on that know how much money you have on your account and if it can ... http://www.rubinary.com/2008/08/11/vending-frankenstein/ Yesterday we went to our local Best Buy and bought ((Apple's mouse was $69.99, Logitech's was $99.99.)) a whole bunch of mice. I wanted something for my Mac, since some development tasks with a touch pad are much harder to perform than they should be. A natural choice was Apple ... http://www.rubinary.com/2008/08/10/mice-infestation/ Last night we watched a translation of 2008 Olympic Games opening ceremony which took place earlier that day (08/08/08) in Beijing. I was REALLY impressed with artistic ideas, their implementation, and the sheer scale of the whole thing. Around 15,000!!! performers participated in the show. There is a good article ... http://www.rubinary.com/2008/08/09/olympics-2008-opening-ceremony/ Well, this past weekend we finally decided to do something that we haven't gotten to in over a year that we've been living here -- add some shelves to our office closet. The thing is that the guy we bought the place from mean for this room to be a bedroom ... http://www.rubinary.com/2008/08/08/office-shelves/ Alena just picked up her Baruch diploma. It shows that she has earned it with Summa Cum Laude honors. We were slightly worried about the fact that they would find a way to screw her out of it, because of the way the bureaucratic speak is used to list qualifications ... http://www.rubinary.com/2008/08/05/college-diploma/ Clever sign design for a garage. How cool is that? http://www.rubinary.com/2008/08/04/parking-garage-design/ This movie was recommended to us by Ignat. I think it was definitely worth watching. Amores Perros tells stories of love and loss, and it makes you think about how ironic life is, and it makes you question your understanding of what drives love... And I think the acting was ... http://www.rubinary.com/2008/08/03/amores-perros/ This light romantic comedy, starring Juliette Binoche and Steve Carell, is fun to watch. It is one of those movies that helps you relax and brings a smile to you face. http://www.rubinary.com/2008/08/03/dan-in-real-life/ Last week was Daniel's mom birthday. She cooked a lot of yummy stuff which included old time favorites like funchoza. :) I humbly participated by adding mango salad and herring appetizer to the table. I found the mango salad recipe on Sweetlady's blog. My salad looks a bit different than ... http://www.rubinary.com/2008/08/03/mango-salad-herring-appetizer/ We haven't posted in the longest time now. There is really not much happening. Work, work, work. For both of us now. I also have been reading a lot about iPhone SDK and Objective-C. Actually making good headway and building my first app. http://www.rubinary.com/2008/08/01/nothing-much/ I don't know about you, but this cartoon seems hilarious. http://www.rubinary.com/2008/07/28/cartoon/