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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, June 9)
APWBWGTTD/Flickr Meetup & New Media to Hear/Read
Atlanta Flickr/Blogger Joint Meetup
Originally uploaded by M.A.X.
Good Times. Great jukebox tech.
I headed over to the APWBWGTTD/Flickr meeting last night at the Highlander (which should be renamed to 'Boba's Backyard') I had never been there, was a pretty cool bar reminded me a lot of Athens and had a jukebox that Marty McFly brought back from 2017 at 88.8 gws. This thing was really pretty cool, it downloaded new tunes daily. The meeting rocked. I have been to a couple of APWBWGTTD meetings before and I always had a good time. It is neat actually putting a face with some of the local blogs you read, there is always that awkward moment when you have describe yourself by your URL (I think people tend to think 'cyanbane' is feminine because of the 'cyan'. I have to over compensate by adding the machismo to counterbalance this. I beat up 3 people and benchpressed 312 in front of everyone last night.) Tonight the Flickr meeting was hybrid'd in with APWBWGTTD meeting and a good time was had by all. I had to beat up 3 people instead of the normal 1 just because my camera is not near as cool as most of the Flickr people's cameras are. It was neat getting to meet some of the people who take the excellent photos that you can see in the Atlanta group on Flickr. I talked with Bump for a while about his high lvl char in WoW. Discussed Boba's San Fran Vacation with Boba and LadyCrumpett, and discussed how surreal the search for that Alabama girl in Aruba was for Mrak and his new Wife (they just got back from there on Mon from their honeymoon [where Mark's famous "Bride To Be" picture spawned from]. All in all it was a good time. Hate I didn't get to meet many of the Flickr people, i was just waiting for everyone to break down into groups (APWBWGTTD Vs ATL Flickr) and start snapping fingers circling each other (a la West Side Story).
I will be posting some new links to my blog link page (first orange link) or the blogs that I try to read daily {I will never call it a blogroll). I will also post other people's links to write up about the evening's meetup.
Other Entries:
Slingerdoo's Entry
Mingaling's Entry
Bobafred's Entry
I was able to make it home to catch the Coldplay storytellers on VH1 which was pretty cool. I had someone IM the other day after seeing that I was listening to X&Y a lot on my site (top right part) and said they didn't think I listened to commercial crap that I was more of an "indie kid". I was kind of offended, but i sent a nice IM back saying I like whatever I like to hear, regardless of who puts it out and how much they get blasted all over the net (I don't really listen to radio or watch TV). Which brings us to some media reviews of the past 2 weeks:
What a weird CD for me (personally). I loved Parachutes. I love Rush of Blood. Then I got this. I didn't like it at first. It was kinda somber the first couple of times I listened to it. It went from high's (White Shadows) to low's (Fix You) [yes I know it is the "lynchpin" of the album]. But I just could not really get into it. Then a weird thing happened. I kept listning to it (when I have plenty of other new stuff to listen to) and it has just been growing on me and growing on me. In all honesty I listen to music constantly and there has been only one album that has ever done this to me, Radiohead's OK Computer. OK Computer is my favortie album of all time. I don't really know why I didn't like it at first, but it really took about 10 spins till I liked it, then about 100 to become the greatest album in the world to me. Which is good for X&Y. If you didn't like X&Y as much Parachutes, or Rush of Blood just give it a few extra spins. It really is that good. I think my highlights on it for me are "Square One" (It reminds me of Spake Zarathustra (beginning of Space Odyssey 2001), I also really love "Talk" which sounds like a guy that is worried about the future and calls his Brother, and I really think they did a good job in picking Speed of Sound as the single. I think it is a great song.
This is very easily the funniest book I have read in a long long time. Basically it is 12 essay's that span topics such as "A Weekend with a Guns N Roses Tribute" band, to "How everyone from generation post-X is actually just a walking/talking reproduction of one of the character archetypes from season's 1 & 2 of the real world (and every Realworld following that)". Also the authors essay on the ups/downs and TV Producer tricks that were through the entire mutli-season stretch of Saved By The Bell (including the Malibu Sands miniseries) were written with amazing knowledge of the shows. (To a point scary). Very awesome book and I highly recommend to anyone. Thanks to Joel for sending it my way.
My dad passed me this book on vacation and all I can say is please read this book before it becomes a movie. Really good fiction that centers around a rising nanotech company and the lead scientists curiosity. I don't want to say any more about it because it might give away storyline and I hate people who do that (Rosebud was the f'ing sled!)
I read a bunch on vacation. I started this book about 3 weeks ago and really just got into it and finished it over vacation. Basically it is about "thin-slicing" (think stereotyping without the bad connotation) is actually a pretty neat concept, but basically I think it boils down to one thing "Trust your first gut instinct". This is what the whole book was basically trying to say. Although it does explain that our bodies sometimes react before we realize they do to problems. It really doesn't describe how to capitalize on that though.
I describe some more new music later this weekend.
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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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