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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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(Sunday, December 4)
Thank You Bernie Marcus.
I honestly cannot remember the last time before today when I saw both kids and adults in awe at the same time. Continuously. It wasn't a good special fx movie awe, it wasn't July 4th staged firework awe, but it was wonderment at Earth�s creatures awe.
For a 26 year old guy who has been to a pretty good number of places around the world, I honestly never thought I would find what could be the neatest example of captive natural marvel, in my own hometown.
I have had my own reef tank for about 2 and a half years. I love saltwater fish, inverts, corals and the whole nine yards. I knew I was going to enjoy it on a hobbyist level, but the moment you are in the tunnel and you hear everyone get silent for a 2-3 seconds then just start with the �oh my�� and everyone just turns towards this massive massive fish the size of a school bus passing OVERHEAD of everyone, schools of fish swimming in it's pressure halo, you know that you are in a special place. Then another one follows right behind it (and there are at least 98,998 others within 9 acres from where you stand). I just can�t describe it. The people that brought us the Georgia Aquarium didn�t just bring Atlanta another aquarium, I have seen Monterey Bay, Charleston, Chicago, Jacksonville, and Chattanooga and it runs circles around all of them.
And if you have kids, the 4D theatre/show is spot on for $5.50 (kinda cheesey but there is one part where my wife screamed).
My Wife has been using her photography skills she is learning from a photography class she is taking and took tons of pics from today. Check out the set here, and some of my favs: here, here, here, and here.
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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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