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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, March 31)
Theresa Falls Up The Stairs....
Honestly Does a Show get any better than Lost? This is a fricking 20+ hour long movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time. So many characters, so many plotlines, so many twists in the plotlines, so many sub stories that tandem the characters interactions with each other (most of the time they don't know it). I mean seriously, this is the best written drama of all time in my opinion. Tonight's episode did not fail either. Me and Lindz were expecting Jack's dad to walk in after Locke and his fathers operation. Maybe next week. The Sub stories with Locke keep getting better and better, and I will say the very end of tonights episode literally gave me chills. Great way to end the episode. Man what a show.
Here are some things that me and Lindz caught and have been being discussed various places that were kinda intereting (not sure if any meaning)
!!!!!SPOILERS!!!!!:
When Boone used the radio the dude came right back saying "There are no survivors on Oceanic 815"
How convienant of a drug to be in plethora in the plane for Charlie. (Herion)
Sawyer + Glasses = Piggy Foreshadow? (from Lord of the Flies)
Weird that the store that Locke worked at kept footballs (official and nerf on two different isles). They just happened to be Isle 8 and Isle 15. (Flight 815),(Numbers from Tower Station are 8/15),(Kates Saftey Deposit Box to Rob was 8/15), (Pshycic told Claire she needed to be on Flight 815), etc.
Was Sawyer reading 'A Wrinkle in Time' by Madealine E'Lingle? One of my favortie books I read when I was little. "The Closest Way from point A to point B IS NOT ALWAYS a strait line, it's a tesseract (Link for the Math Geeks) or better known to the Wallace Children as a 'Wrinkle In Time'.
Locke was "trapped" into providing the Kidney by his "Mom" and "Dad" (reference to Mouse Trap from beginning of episode?)
Why build a big Trebuches (yes an s on the end) when you have a gun to shoot the window of the hatch?!?
Below are some details about the season finally, and also there is a link to season one's DVDs that are up on Amazon (Sorry not till Sept 6th guys). I am sure me and Lindz will buy them and watch them all over within a week. Great Television people, great television.
P.S. I loved the Jesus allusion at first with this episode on Locke, I think it really played on all the people that speculate abot his abilities on the message boards. It almost seems like an FU to all the people that think he is non-mortal.
LOST (ABC) - The Alphabet has confirmed the smash freshman hit will close its season with an expanded two-hour installment on Wednesday, May 25 at 8:00/7:00c. The news means that 25 hours of 'Lost' are set to be shot this season, as well as a special one-hour 'introductory guide' next month. The season closer had previously been indicated to be 90 minutes however when the script came in long it was expanded to two hours. It's not clear how the move will affect lead-out 'Alias,' which had also been previously slated to wrap with a 90-minute installment on May 25.
Lost Season 1 DVDs
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Travis - The Boy With No Name
Travis is back. I wouldn't say I hated 12 memories, it was meant to be very political, I just thought it went a little overboard and was somewhat preachy. Then when the greatest hits CD came out to be honest I was really hoping it didn't mean the end to one of my favorite brit bands. Boy With No Name is everything they were capable of. Supurb CD all the way through. Every song is brilliant. Big Chair is probably my favorite song and the opening to the CD on 3 Times is as good as it gets in music imho. |
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Pop! Why Bubbles are Great For The Economys (Gross)
One of the better economic books I have read in while, where the author gets their premise across in a well written, clear and concise manner. Basically Gross believes that the infrastructure left over after economic bubbles, provides companies with the ability to move forward (maybe more than the original bubble did). Not a hard read, I would definitely suggest it for a day and the beach/lake. |
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Feist - The Reminder
I CANNOT GET "I feel it all" OUT OF MY HEAD. Period. Great album, angelic voice. |
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Catan - Xbox Live Arcade
I am hopelessly addicted to this board-turned-video game on the xbox360. I had never played the board game but had seen it being played in some comic shops growing up. Click the Pick and play the demo, it isn't the 360 interface, but same game. |
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Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worse Nightmare
No Sophomore slump here. Just as good (if not better) than Whatever they Say. |
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Beautiful Evidence (Tufte)
Tufte reads like a text book, most people would say bleh, but the information about "information" that he can deliver is top notch. My first Tufte book was "A Visual Display To Quantitative Information" and it was extremely well done, albeit confusing at time. I think beautiful Evidence is a little easier of a read (I am still only half way through it) and a little easier for myself to understand the ideas he is presenting.. |
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Fountains of Wayne - Traffic and Weather
Fountains of Wayne are the Gods of pop music. If Welcome Interstate Managers was a collection of short stories in song form, then Traffic and Weather is an even better collection with more humor. I already feel like CNN has the hottest female anchors, imagining them throwing their lust around like the Title track to the CD makes it even better. |
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Game of Thrones (Martin)
I started this book assuming it was going to be a high fantasy novel. Elfs, Dragons, Magic and the like. It isn't. It IS fantasy but more surrounding the politics and cunning of a few high ranking families. Incest, Murder, Intrigue, unscrupulous midgets. It has it all and more. |
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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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