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The Magpie Developer
Jeff Atwood is one of the best programmer/writers around. I love reading his stuff, some I agree wholeheartedly with, other stuff we disagree, but this post is about a dead-on as they come. This idea has been floating in my head for a long time, but it is hard for me to conceptualize it in words, Atwood does a brilliant job at it. Must read for any developer. |
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Andy Olmsted's Last Blog Entry.
(Warning: Pretty rough) No matter how you feel politically about the war, this reminds you that each number people throw around as statistics is a human life. This is extremely well written, and pretty rough on your soul towards the end, but something everyone should read. Its a shitty situation all around, but there is always a human face behind the statistics and I want to make sure I never forget that. |
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Drinking stories that put yours to shame
Via Keith
To preserve his body during the voyage home, the second-in-command stored Nelson's body in the ship's vat of rum and halted all liquor rations to the crew. Not a bad idea, but when the ship reached port, officials went to retrieve Nelson's body and found the vat dry.
Disregarding good taste (in every sense), the crew had been secretly drinking from it the entire way home. After that, naval rum was referred to as Nelson's Blood. |
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making vodka pills in 24 hours
Recently, Chef Fabian was experimenting further with the Adria/Torreblanca technique of making 'vodka pills.' I use this word to describe the process of making liquid-filled candies by pouring flavored alcohol syrups into cornstarch and letting it set until a hard outer shell forms. |
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Strategy Letter VI - joelonsoftware.com
As a programmer, thanks to plummeting memory prices, and CPU speeds doubling every year, you had a choice. You could spend six months rewriting your inner loops in Assembler, or take six months off to play drums in a rock and roll band, and in either case, your program would run faster. Assembler programmers don’t have groupies.
Entire Article is Dead On. A must read for anyone in the software biz. |
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VN Boards - OT: Riot Police Called To Local Gaming Store
For the Love of God...
Louisville, KY, AP - Possibly more than 30 people were arrested today at St. Matthews Mall when apparently a fight broke out over a computer game that was supposed to be released today between a sales associate and a customer. It is guessed that more than 75 people were involved in the incident.
"It was crazy, I can't believe something like this happened." reported Johnathon York, the GameStop Manager. He continued, "We knew that Final Fantasy 11 Online would be a big title but not big enough to cause a riot!"
VN Boards - OT: Riot Police Called To Local Gaming Store
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(Monday, October 27)
Twenty-twenty-twenty-four hours to go
*Rubbing hands together Feverishly* And So it begins tommrow night. Jack Bauer is back to save the world and kick some major ass. Kim is back to get in trouble in really tight shirts, and Lets all just pray for Preisdent Palmer............
PALMER: Don't F'n Listen To a word from Sherry this season...
Twenty-twenty-twenty-four hours to go
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DVDs
I saw a thread about the funniest movies of all time and I compailed my list (it is not ordered) Again these are the funniest movies of all time and should be watched at any cost. They should each be added to every person on the planets DVD collection as time and money permits without excuse:
Caddyshack
Office Space
Ferris Buhler's Day Off
MP's the Holy Grail
MP's The Meaning of Life
The Princess Bride
Big Trouble in Little China
PCU
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Zoolander
Spaceballs
Pulp Fiction
Blazing Saddles
O Brother Where Art Thou
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Kentucky Fried Movie
Dumb and Dumber
Any Family Vacations
Any Fletch's
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(Thursday, October 23)
Pearl Jam
Short history of Pearl Jam.... I never realized how many drummers they had..
Pearl Jam
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Donny showed me this, so very true.
A philosphy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him.
When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and
empty mayonaise jar to fill it with rocks, about 2 Inches in diameter.
He then asked the students if the jar was full.
They agreed that it was.
So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar.
he shook the jar lightly.
The pebbles, of course rolled into the open areas beetween the rocks.
He then again ask the students if the jar was full.
They agreed it was.
The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar.
Of course the sand filled up everything else.
He then asked ones more if the jar was full.
The students responded with a unanimous YES.
The professor then produced two cans of beer from under the table and proceeded to pour
the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty spaces beetween the sand.
The students laughed.
Now, said the professor, as the laughter subsided
I want you to recognize that the jar represents your life.
The rocks are the important things: Your Family, your partner, your health and your children.
Things, that if everything else was lost and only remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter, like your job, your house, your car.
The sand is everything else- the small stuff.
If you put the sand into the jar first, he continued, there is no room for all the pebbles ao the rocks.
The same goes for your life.
If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that
are important to you.
Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
Play with your children.
Take the time to get medical checkups.
Take your partner out Dancing.
There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal.
Tke care of the rocks first-- the things that really matter.
Set your priorities.
The rest is just sand.
One of the students then raised her hand and inquired what the beer was represented.
The professor smiled.
I'm glad you ask. It just to show you that no matter how full your life may seem,
there is always room for a couple of beers.
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(Monday, October 20)
How is Amazon's AI So damn intellegent that it knows me so well...
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Props to my brotha Andy, Who got engaged this weekend to Ginger. The last of the three amigos is engaged. Lord knows who will have a chillin' first. Contrats again Poppy.
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My Reef
My Reef is back to normal after a rigorus treatment of darkness and SeaChem Clarity. Just praying it stays that way. Gonna take it easy for awhile. New (Clear) pics are here:
New Pics of Non Hulk Reef
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Blame the Cubs
Nomar is NoMore, and Rod Blagojevich is an embarrassment to the seat of a Governor, Illinois you should be ashamed.
Blame the Cubs
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"A woman takes a lover during the day while her husband is at work. Her 9-year-old son comes home unexpectedly so she puts him in the closet and shuts the door.
Her husband also comes home early, so she puts her lover in the closet with the little boy.
The little boy says, 'Dark in here.'
The man says, 'Yes, it is.'
Boy: 'I have a baseball.'
Man: 'That's nice.'
Boy: 'want to buy it?'
Man: 'No, thanks.'
Boy: 'My dad's outside.'
Man: 'OK, how much?'
Boy: '25 dollars.'
Man: 'Fine'.
In the next few weeks, it happens again that the boy and the lover are
In the closet together.
Boy: 'Dark in here.'
Man: 'Yes, it is.'
Boy: 'I have a baseball mitt.'
Remembering the last time, he asks, 'how much?'
Boy: '75 dollars.'
Man: 'Fine.'
A few days later, the boy's father says to the boy, 'Grab your glove.
Let's go outside and toss the baseball back and forth.'
The boy says, 'I can't. I sold them.'
Father: 'How much did you sell them for?'
Boy: '100 dollars.'
The father says, 'That's terrible to overcharge your friends like that, 100 dollars is way more than those two things cost. I'm going to take you to church and make you confess.'
They go to church and the father makes the little boy sit in the confession booth and he closes the door.
The boy says, 'Dark in here.'
The Priest says, 'Don't start that shit again!' "
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(Wednesday, October 15)
Untitled
Donny showed me this...Look at the friggin Divits..
Untitled
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Disbelief in Mormonism
The mormon religion has always facinated me becuase sometimes it seems so odd that people believe Joesph Smith was a prophet when years before he was arrested numerous times for petty crimes. It is an odd religion that I really feel is just a cult that got so large it became a religion. I think most of the practicioners are good people and believe just things, but man if you look at the history some is really hard to swallow Neat Link:
Disbelief in Mormonism
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