Seth Lilly

Ghost uses Markdown to bring content and presentation together I...

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:44:05 -0400

Ghost uses Markdown to bring content and presentation together

I lovewriting in Markdown. It might seem slightly elite, but it has a real utility. It forces you…

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Oh, Rexy. You’re so sexy!

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:44:45 -0400

Oh, Rexy. You’re so sexy!

We mustn’t dwell…no, not today. We CAN’T. Not...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:33:15 -0400

We mustn’t dwell…no, not today. We CAN’T. Not on Rex Manning Day!

Closing Issues Across Repositories

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:32:21 -0400

Another great feature from our friends at GitHub:

Starting today, you can use commit messages to close issues in other repositories.

Now you can include “fixes user/repo#45″ in your commit message, and it will close the referenced issue, provided you have…

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@mobizznasty Business up front, party in the...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:03:54 -0400

@mobizznasty Business up front, party in the back.
http://instagr.am/p/W5ccxXBqeD/

Top 20 Secrets of Coda 2From the Panic blog: Blockedit Multiple...

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:07:01 -0500

Top 20 Secrets of Coda 2

From the Panic blog:
Blockedit Multiple Lines at Once
Quickly make changes to multiple lines at…

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Not my photos (unfortunately).

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:43:00 -0500

Not my photos (unfortunately).

http://instagr.am/p/Tt-Jv-BqaG/

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:32:55 -0500

http://instagr.am/p/Tt-Jv-BqaG/

astrotastic: I went on a walk this morning up the hill and on...

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 09:25:04 -0500

astrotastic:

I went on a walk this morning up the hill and on my way back down, I stopped to notice these really cool ice crystals sticking up out of the snow. I went and got my camera and took some pictures. I thought now would be a great opportunity to talk about the structure of frozen water!

Water freezes in a hexagonal shape because of where the bonds lie in the water molecule.

When water is at room temperature, or at a liquid state, all the molecules bunch up together and try to fill every crevice they can. It looks like this:

(source)

But, when water freezes, the molecules rearrange themselves along the hydrogen atoms and bond there. This structure is more organized than liquid water is:

(source)

This accounts for why ice floats on top of water in your drinking glass - there is more space between the molecules in a solid state, which means it is less dense than water in a liquid state. The shape of this model is also hexagonal - the molecules arrange into a tetrahedral shape so every hydrogen atom is bonded to another oxygen atom via a lone pair of electrons. This naturally forms a hexagonal shape, thus the spectacular forms of snowflakes!

Yay science!

An itch.

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:31:25 -0500

I want to build something fun and useful. I think it might surround Tumblr, but I’m not sure exactly how. I’d like to do something besides a theme, although I have a couple of those rolling around in my mind—mostly typography-based.

Hayden Falls http://instagr.am/p/S3gFlzhqRG/

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:51:00 -0500

Hayden Falls
http://instagr.am/p/S3gFlzhqRG/

"For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday..."

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:20:26 -0500

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”

- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

My favorite spot to work at...

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:06:58 -0500

My favorite spot to work at home.
http://instagr.am/p/SzBchbBqQM/

Crazy night at Barnes and Noble, Tumblr!

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 19:49:04 -0500

Crazy night at Barnes and Noble, Tumblr!

Eating and cooling? Perhaps they meant eating and...

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:31:49 -0500

Eating and cooling? Perhaps they meant eating and cooking.
http://instagr.am/p/StYWgIhqWC/

In the beginning...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:11:19 -0500

When speaking about gay marriage, gay relationships, or gay anything, many evangelical Christians like to say, “In Genesis, it was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.”

Sorry, folks, but you’re wrong. Though the lineup has changed over the years, Genesis was Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, and Tony Banks. Additionally, Steve Hackett was a member from 1971-1977, so though Genesis actually had a Steve, there was no Adam. Or Eve.

The smell of earth after rain

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:42:24 -0500

holymoleculesbatman:

is called Petrichor, and it is caused by Geosmin.

Geosmin is an organic compound with the formula C₁₂H₂₂O. It’s produced by several classes of microbes, including cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) and actinobacteria (especially Streptomyces), and released when these microbes die. The human nose is extremely sensitive to geosmin and is able to detect it at concentrations as low as 5 parts per trillion.

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Science.

December

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:02:23 -0500

Tumblr friends, you’re always good for stories. So, will you tell me a story about your plans for December?

Needs a little work, but the Lilly family Christmas tree has...

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:46:42 -0500

Needs a little work, but the Lilly family Christmas tree has been chosen!
http://instagr.am/p/SYfJEVBqYr/

Adyson sings a song about what turkeys like to eat for...

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:34:32 -0500

Adyson sings a song about what turkeys like to eat for Thanksgiving, accompanied by her beatboxing brothers.