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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, November 28)
Post Sting
Another year, another 51 weeks of Tech reminding us about basketball season.
You know, that game was almost as close as the UGA Vs Auburn game, but it was just a boring ass game. At the risk of alienating myself from my alumni and dawg fan status, even though we lost to Auburn, I enjoyed the Auburn game 10x more. Auburn was an exciting game. The Tech game was boring as hell until the last 10 mins. Don't get me wrong Richt was right in the end for playing conservative and waiting for a special teams breakout, but man, it got stale. If I heard the James Taylor Farm Bureau insurance ad one more time in between Munson calls I was gonna shoot myself. I do have to say that replay worked very well, and I am glad (especially with this specific rivalry's history of craptacular calls) it went well.
One thing I always love about the Dawgs winning is the crap coverage the AJC gives them. It never fails that if the Jackets win they get a keep sake full page cover with the highlights. At least UGA got some coverage on the front page this year. Here are some steller quotes from an AJC article this year:
LSU couldn't stop Tennessee when it mattered, however, so now all that matters is the Sugar Bowl berth given to the winner of this week's game. The loser, at least if it is Georgia, more than likely will end up in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.
It's two vastly different bowl games, in terms of payout and stature, for teams that appear to be exactly the same.
I bolded the SEC love.
even the Title:
Drained Bulldogs turn focus to LSU
Ah well. There is a taint to everything. And everything has a taint.
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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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