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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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(Tuesday, August 31)
Brazil with Frys... Supersized
Two thing of great note happened to me over the weekend:
I visited Mecca (twice mind you)
I watched one of the greatest movies I have seen in years
First, Mecca.
Richrard called me around 2 oclock on Friday and said these words (which are forever etched in my mind)
"Eric, I am in the coolest store ever built"
I had figured he had happened upon some new Best Buy Lookalike and was going to tell me how cool the computer game section was and that they carried indie CDs and good choices of Anime. Little did I know that Richard was about to tell me about Mecca. (aka Fry's Electronics). Let me tell you that I was a little hesitant about the words richard was spilling before me in between his drool as he walked around the store. Basically I got this out of him "Big As... City... Anything geek could....want...walls of motherboards.... rows of cases....water coooling.... $65 120 gig harddrive.... games...book..." and then I think Richard passed out. I ended up going and meeting richard at this electronics store with its own zipcode at about 7:30. It was everything I had envisioned and more. This place is a combination of a Best Buy, Circut City, Barnes & Noble, Game Stop, Radioshack, 5 delis, 4 burros, 3 ghettos, and an anime store in a pear tree. Undeniably the coolest store in Atlanta. I ended up going back on Sunday with Lindz and she was pretty enthrawled by the place, although I am sure she saw many wachovia.com entries with the word Fry's emblazzed on them in her future. All Hail Fry's. I have already bought a little rug (ok old converted star wars bed sheets) to lay down at work in Fry's direction for my 5 prayers daily.
The second event of my weekend that was amazing was watching Brazil. What an amazing movie. It is amazing to me to be able to watch a movie that was made when I was 6 (20 years - 1/5th of a century ago) that is MORE relevant today than it was back then. Basically the jest of the film is a Monty Python's 1984. The story takes tons of Orwellean facits and throws them at you with the visual entensity of Floyd's The Wall Its that late 70s early 80s technicolor that is PERFECT for films like The Wall or Clockwork Orange or the 'Long Horn Steak House Baby Weird Hairdo Lady Commercials' (No shit, shes a pshcyotriptic witch I have dreamed about that rides a Flaming Pie). The film is just an amazing take on 'The System' and Orwellean Governmental Control and the lone crusader that tries to stop it with a Kubrick twist. MARK MY WORDS: Robert Dinero's HVAC Mercenary is the most funniest character that has ever existed in any movie. Tuttle/er Buttle is the coolest cunning contractor that has ever existed.
Please Rent It.
-E
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Disclaimer
The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in anyway.
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