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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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(Monday, June 27)
Seal @ Chastain
 | Probably one of the top 5 most influential artists to me personally, both in 'view of life' and 'artistic creation' is Seal. There are very few artists who I can enjoy any song from their entire catalog (yes even the Fly like an Eagle cover from Space Jam), but I can listen to any single Seal CD all the way through and enjoy any song off the four records. Unfortunately for America, Seal is a lot bigger overseas than he is here. Unfortunately for Atlanta, when Seal does tour in the U.S. he usually only hits the big metro cities (LA/NY). Trying to catch Seal here seems to only happen about once every decade (last time was in 1995 @ Chastain also). 95 was about the time I bought my first Seal album, Seal II. I was talking to my dad earlier in the weekend and he even talked about how I drove the album into the ground when I was younger. There are very few songs that I have ever heard that are as beautiful as Prayer for the Dying, Don't Cry,Kiss From a Rose, State of Grace and Lost My Faith. Then came Human Being which was just a little more twisted and dark, but just as good. I had never seen Seal live, but I have heard tons of live stuff from him (most recently [3 weeks ago] a 5.1 CD/DVD combo from a concert in Paris last year came out, and earlier in the year an acoustic/remix cd was packaged greatest hits album on iTunes), one of things I love about him as an artist and really wanted to experience live was the fact that like some other bands(Counting Crows comes to mind) the songs sometimes sound completely different (sometimes stripped down/sometimes added onto) live then they do on his albums. I LOVE this in an artist because I enjoy how it shows that they are not confined to music interpreted through their producers (and unfortunately sometimes the record company) but that they might have a different vision of the song the entire time and they still want to share it with you. All in all great concert, may have been a little short (Chastain rules say it has to end at 11pm on Sunday) but Seal and his band played an awesome set, and the opening act Chris Pierce was great too.
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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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