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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, June 28)
The President's Speech Tonight (8:30 EST?)
Me and Mc have telepathic powers and wanted to let everyone who reads this blog (and hopefully his) know that we have been creating a list of predictions of what the President is going to "Clearly" describe tonight.
I like to call it "SOS" at work.
Talking Point 1:
Iraq is going well despite some setbacks. Making a lot of progress in the spread of freedom and democracy; still a lot of hard work left. Military men/women are great Americans. We must remain supportive. Insurgents hate freedom.
Talking Point 2:
Don't worry about North Korea they are full of hooey, and Syria and/or Iran better stop looking at us funny.
Talking Point 3:
Attack on democrats for submarining his Bolton to the UN thing and SS "reform". Where's the democracy in non up/down votes?
In the spirit of the Bunny's SW Ep3 drinking game. Tonight have your own drinking game during the speech, drink when hearing:
"Liberate"
"Freedom"
"Evil Dictator"
"Pull Out"
"Economy is doing better"
"Resolve"
What you won't hear (If heard you have to eat half a loaf of bread to sponge up the alchohol):
"Weapons of Mass Destruction"
Yep...
Same Old Shit.
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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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