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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, September 27)
Jacksonville City Nights
9 out of 10
Never Fails.
UPDATE: So I get to actually write something about this album. Well I don't know what to write. This album is way more country than when Ryan was fronting Whiskytown. This isn't country as most people know it. This is country music as our grandparents know it. It is extremely, extremely good. I loved Cold Roses (a lot of people hated it). Cold Roses to me was very honky tonk *akin to the Whiskytown days* This CD is very very country. Again I don't mean commerical country music of today, I mean Allison Kraus, early Emmily Lou country. The Good stuff. The real stuff. There is somthign inside me that says in the next few year Adams may take over my coveted 'best artist of my time award' which currently is held by Radiohead (my favorite band). Everytime Radiohead comes out with a new album, I know it is going to be 180 degress from their previous works. That one of the reasons I think they are such a great band. Since Adams' Gold, he went to Rock and Roll then a 180 to country, then with this album more country. Everytime I get a new album I really do think to myself "ok this one is gonna be the one where he went to far and it ends up sucking". I am so glad that I have not hit that point yet. He really is a completlly different (but great) artists with every record. Each record just shines. He has another record comming out this year called '29' maybe that will be the suck album. I can't wait for it after hear Jacksonville. NOTE: IF you pick up this album, please don't think it is about the Florida town with the shitty crowded party spot called 'the landing' it is about Jacksonville, NC, Adams' home town.
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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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