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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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(Thursday, January 29)
Carr todl me this was mildly amusing..
It is one of the funnest games I have played in days...
PINGuin
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(Wednesday, January 28)
i like George W. this is pretty damn funny though. Salimer showed it to me:
George Bush goes to a primary school to talk about
the war. After his talk he offers question time. One
little boy puts up his hand and George asks him what
his name is.
"Bob".
"And what is your question, Bob?"
"I have 3 questions. First, why did the USA invade
Iraq without the support of the UN? Second, why are
you President when Al Gore got more votes? And third,
what happened to Osama Bin Laden?
Just then the bell rings for recess. George Bush
informs the kiddies that they will continue after
recess. When they resume George says, "OK, where were
we? Oh that's right --- question time. Who has a
question?"
A different little boy puts up his hand. George
points him out and asks him what his name is. "Steve"
"And what is your question, Steve?"
"I have 5 questions. First, why did the USA invade
Iraq without the support of the UN? Second, why are
you President when Al Gore got more votes? Third, what
happened to Osama Bin Laden? Fourth, why did the
recess bell go 20 minutes early? And fifth, where is
Bob?"
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(Monday, January 19)
I have only lived for almost 25 years, that for some people that is a lot, others it is only barely a quarter of their life. One thing that I can say I have learned is that bad things happen to good people- as much as they happen to bad people, I really believe that bad things happen to good people sometimes more. I am not sure why this is, fate sometimes seems to want to deal the cruelist hands to the best people. Maybe He knows that they can adapt and handle it better because they have had a better life maybe? I am not sure.
Today my 4 year old cousin had a Birthday Party, in attendance were most of my family members including my grandparents and my cousin's other set of grandparents, my uncle's parents. While driving home to Tenn. from the party, my uncle's parents were killed instantly in a car accident. Even though they were not related, they come to any of my aunt's and uncle's get togethers and I view them as family. Their unexpected deaths have really had an effect on me, not only becuase they were good people, but becuase of the sense of loss of my uncle, aunt and cousins. I am gonna take a couple days of from the blog and will update down the road a little bit. I need to check out the gravel under my feet some, it seems a lot of us just keep of steppin a lot of times only focused on our destination and not what we walk on.
-E
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(Thursday, January 15)
I don't know why this amuses me so much. I have a burning hatred for the paperclip and I could easily show the little bicycle with eyes a short trip to hell....
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From bash.org #106579
Topic in #os: hey guyz, stop pickin on irix.
<SCO> w00t! i bought unix! im gonna b so rich!
<novell> /msg atnt haha. idiot.
<novell> whoops. was that out loud?
<atnt> rotfl
<ibm> lol
<SCO> why r u laffin at me?
<novell> dude, unix is so 10 years ago. linux is in now.
<SCO> wtf?
<SCO> hey guyz, i bought caldera, I have linux now.
<red_hat> haha, your linux sucks.
<novell> lol
<atnt> lol
<ibm> lol
<SCO> no wayz, i will sell more linux than u!
<ibm> your linux sucks, you should look at SuSE
<SuSE> Ja. Wir bilden gutes Linux fur IBM.
<SCO> can we do linux with you?
<SuSE> Ich bin nicht sicher...
<ibm> *cough*
<SuSE> Gut lassen Sie uns vereinigen.
* SuSE is now SuSE[UL]
* SCO is now caldera[UL]
<turbolinux> can we play?
<conectiva> we're bored... we'll go too.
<ibm> sure!
* turbolinux is now turbolinux[UL]
* conectiva is now conectiva[UL]
<ibm> redhat: you should join!
<SuSE[UL]> Ja! Wir sind vereinigtes Linux. Widerstand ist vergeblich.
<red_hat> haha. no.
<red_hat> lamers.
<ibm> what about you debian?
<debian> we'll discuss it and let you know in 5 years.
<caldera[UL]> no one wants my linux!
<turbolinux[UL]> i got owned.
<caldera[UL]> u all tricked me. linux is lame.
* caldera[UL] is now known as SCO
<SCO> i'm going back to unix.
<SGI> yeah! want to do unix with me?
<SCO> haha. no. lamer.
<novell> lol
<ibm> snap!
<SGI> :~(
<SCO> hey, u shut up. im gonna sue u ibm.
<ibm> wtf?
<SCO> yea, you stole all the good stuff from unix.
<red_hat> lol
<SuSE[UL]> heraus laut lachen
<ibm> lol
<SCO> shutup. i'm gonna email all your friends and tell them you suck.
<ibm> go ahead. baby.
<SCO> andandand... i revoke your unix! how do you like that?
<ibm> oh no, you didn't. AIX is forever.
<novell> actually, we still own unix, you can't do that.
<SCO> wtf? we bought it from u.
<novell> whoops. our bad.
<SCO> i own u. haha
<SCO> ibm: give me all your AIX now!
<ibm> whatever. lamer.
* ibm sets mode +b SCO!*@*
* SCO has been kicked from #os (own this.)
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Google Search: Eric Thompson
There seem to be a lot of people named Eric Thompson in the world. There is Eric Thompson the Bluegrass Flatpicker (yeah I am jealous) and Eric Thompson the jazz pianist. There are however, a limited number of people named James Eric Thompson in the world, of which I happen to be in an elite class of. The only other one I could find using Grokker is a farmer out in in Indiana. I guess until then the only Eric that the world needs is me, a programmer in Cumming, Georgia.
Google Search: Eric Thompson
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BC - Films - High Noon - 12th January 2004
About damn time they made a movie about Arthur, Zaphod and Ford. Proably one of my favorite books of all time. I think there were a lot of people who just coudl not get through the oddness in the book, I wonder how they are gonna pan it out in the theaters, lets just pray they don't go the Men in Black route. Pray that we get through the coming Of The Great White Handkerchief.
BBC - Films - High Noon - 12th January 2004
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