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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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(Friday, November 12)
Teen Wolf
Me and some friends were having an email discussion about Teen Wolf and someone mentioned Styles character and I brought up the character 'Boof'. Not convinced the characters name was 'Booth' (and all through childhood I had the misnomer stuck in my head) I went to IMDB.com to go check out her character's name. That's when I just laughed my ass off at this review of the movie:
"Date: 2 January 2004
Summary: Big Bad Movie
I hate this movie, but somehow it made enough money to warrant an even weaker sequel. I'm a horror purist and I hate it when a movie twists and distorts the facts to squeeze a script out of nothing. Michael J. Fox plays a teen with a werewolf heritage, but instead of turning into a wolf man at the sign of the full moon and terrorizing the countryside, he just spouts hair and wins basketball games. Just when the concept couldn't get any more stupid, he is graciously accepted by being a freak by his peers. I've known kids who terrorized others for mismatched socks ! And who knew wolves were basketball players; that's one tidbit that I'm sure Steve Irwin would like to know about. If a wolf attacks, just distract it with a basketball ! Please don't waste your time watching this movie; I cringe today just wondering how this movie got made !"
The review just about made me cry thinking that there is one person out there in the world that is a 'horror purist' that got upset when they threw in the Teen Wolf VHS tape and was hoping for some sort of scary movie with MICHAEL J FOX and was actually let down by the movie?!?! And this was my favorite line "I hate it when a movie twists and distorts the facts" I, Eric Thompson, must have missed the Werewolf Fact Ship when it left the dock. It gets better too, in the middle of the review one can easily see that at sometime in his life this reviewer was beat up (probably more than once) because he fucked up when choosing his socks one morning. This was definitely a great laugh for my day, and I may have to start commenting on the psychology of other peoples comments more often.
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Disclaimer
The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in anyway.
© Copyright 2003-2007, Eric Thompson |
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