Ryan Kopf's Blog

A UK company has created a new font that could help anyone learn Japanese. View it "here.":http://www.dramafever.com/news/new-font-incorporates-english-pronunciation-guide-into-japanese-katakana-characters-/ It mostly just helps in reading kana - which is only 2 out of 3 parts of the Japanese language, and even smaller yet only maybe 10-20% of all reading you find.

Science is awesome. "First images from the comet.":http://spaceflightnow.com/2014/11/13/philae-sends-first-image-from-comet/.

Recently Otakon released a form asking attendees if they would be interested in receiving their badge in the mail, and asking how much they would be willing to pay for it. I think this is a great move, as Otakon has had registration line issues for years, and it may be one of the best ways for them to prevent this issue in the future.

In this video I take the ALS challenge after being challenged by my VP. However there is a water shortage and I don't want to waste good drinking water, so instead I will be donating all of my two dollar bills to the ALS foundation.

Online bullies have made victims out of more than "7 out of 10":http://nobullying.com/cyberbullying-bullying-statistics-2014-finally/ young people this year. Online bullies have made victims out of more than "7 out of 10":http://nobullying.

It looks like I'm very likely going to need to move to Illinois really soon, and for one simple reason: taxes. When you run businesses in multiple states, you have to file taxes in every single one, yet one of them is legally your "home state" wherever you live.

You, fellow congoer, wouldn't slip five dollars out of a friend's purse when they're not looking. And if you would, you can just fuck right off. The supermajority of people going to cons are the most awesome people in the world.

Amazon's documentation on their command line tools is unwieldy and confusingly setup. They have a lot of tools that are similarly named, yet you may need just a fraction of them for your particular purpose.

Is your image_science throwing an error when you try to install Rails 3 on a new machine for testing and updating purposes. My error was something like: gcc -shared -I/usr/local/include -fPIC -O3 -ggdb -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wno-long-long -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wimplicit-function-declaration -fPIC -L.

Bundler doesn't do a good job of installing a lot of dependencies, which is likely a result of running bundler as a regular user yet needing to install system files as a sudo-wielding administrator. sudo apt-get install imagemagick libmagickcore-dev libmagickwand-dev Helps install RMagick.