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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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(Thursday, June 22)
Watching Porn at the Y.M.C.A
So the wife and me have been on a huge workout kick these last few weeks, we are both down some weight and basically hitting the gym about 4 times a week (we hope to move up to 5 soon). She usually takes a class and I go do cardio on either the climber or stairmaster for 45 mins while she is in a class. 45 mins is just enough time to watch a 1 hour long show on DVD, so basically I have decided that as long as I am working out then I can purchase dvd sets to go through as I work out then I will sell them on ebay when I am done. Each exercise machine has its own dvd player and lcd screen to watch (barring you brought headphones) I have already gone through season 4 of 24 (Jack Bauer is a patriot), and 2 seasons of Seinfeld (4&5 arguably the best 2) using this workout methodology. I was going to start watching Deadwood season 1 (I only got about halfway through it last time, but I remembered that it was on HBO and showed some boob and the (Y)oung (M)ens (C)hristian (Ass)ociation probably would not dig me watching boob (and hearing the word 'Fuck' from my headphones as every other word from Al Swearengen) so I decided that I would instead start watching Battlestar Galactica.
I am a huge Star Wars and FireFly fan, but Battlestar Galactica always seemed one small step away from Star Trek (I love Star Trek movies, but never really got into ST:TNG) but I picked up season one and decided to watch it while I workout. For those that don't know, it started out as a mini series (3 or 4 parts I think) and did fairly well, which then because its own show (and soon to have a spin off). I believe it just wrapped up season 2, and season 1 and the first half of season 2 are available on DVD to purchase. I bought season 1 and started watching it. The show is absolutely awesome. Take the character development of Fire Fly and combine it with more realistic emotional writing aboard a dying exiled population and you get Battlestar Galactica. I can't say enough about how good this show is, except if you are going to watch any scene with Dr. Baltar and the blond she devil (#6) at your local YMCA. Although there is no nudity (this was originally on Sci-fi) there is some thrusting and some curvature of ass/tit in some of the scenes). Nothing I wouldn't care about anyone seeing personally, but you never know with other people working out right next to you with thier kids, I really don't feel like droppin' a bow on some conservative nut soccer mom because Dr. Baltar needed to test out his Cylon Detecting Meat Wand in episode 4. So basically anytime I think something steamy might be coming up on the show, I switch the video input over to the tv and pretend like I am watching the Simpsons (I usually get there around 7:30 ish) while I listen to the audio on Battlestar Galactica (BG) then switch back to the BG episode when I think that the detector wand has been fully tested and has been resecured in Balthazar's pants. It's my own little trite game that actually was a pain in the ass at first, but now seems to be a little funny for anyone that watches me closely because unless they know the scenes in BG, I look uber-geeky like I can't watch a dvd too long before I need a Matt Groening fix, then I switch it back to the DVD. Regardless I saw this on the net today and just broke down laughing because this guy actually drew the Battlestar Galactica cast in Simpson-esque form which really is just seems too ironic for words for me. It is really very good.
So take a look it is certainly worth it (click image for link):
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Travis - The Boy With No Name
Travis is back. I wouldn't say I hated 12 memories, it was meant to be very political, I just thought it went a little overboard and was somewhat preachy. Then when the greatest hits CD came out to be honest I was really hoping it didn't mean the end to one of my favorite brit bands. Boy With No Name is everything they were capable of. Supurb CD all the way through. Every song is brilliant. Big Chair is probably my favorite song and the opening to the CD on 3 Times is as good as it gets in music imho. |
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Pop! Why Bubbles are Great For The Economys (Gross)
One of the better economic books I have read in while, where the author gets their premise across in a well written, clear and concise manner. Basically Gross believes that the infrastructure left over after economic bubbles, provides companies with the ability to move forward (maybe more than the original bubble did). Not a hard read, I would definitely suggest it for a day and the beach/lake. |
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Feist - The Reminder
I CANNOT GET "I feel it all" OUT OF MY HEAD. Period. Great album, angelic voice. |
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Catan - Xbox Live Arcade
I am hopelessly addicted to this board-turned-video game on the xbox360. I had never played the board game but had seen it being played in some comic shops growing up. Click the Pick and play the demo, it isn't the 360 interface, but same game. |
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Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worse Nightmare
No Sophomore slump here. Just as good (if not better) than Whatever they Say. |
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Beautiful Evidence (Tufte)
Tufte reads like a text book, most people would say bleh, but the information about "information" that he can deliver is top notch. My first Tufte book was "A Visual Display To Quantitative Information" and it was extremely well done, albeit confusing at time. I think beautiful Evidence is a little easier of a read (I am still only half way through it) and a little easier for myself to understand the ideas he is presenting.. |
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Fountains of Wayne - Traffic and Weather
Fountains of Wayne are the Gods of pop music. If Welcome Interstate Managers was a collection of short stories in song form, then Traffic and Weather is an even better collection with more humor. I already feel like CNN has the hottest female anchors, imagining them throwing their lust around like the Title track to the CD makes it even better. |
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Game of Thrones (Martin)
I started this book assuming it was going to be a high fantasy novel. Elfs, Dragons, Magic and the like. It isn't. It IS fantasy but more surrounding the politics and cunning of a few high ranking families. Incest, Murder, Intrigue, unscrupulous midgets. It has it all and more. |
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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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