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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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(Friday, August 25)
Nothing Brings Up Discussions of Weapon Choices Like Zombies
I started the day with an 'almost shit my pants' when the Bunny passed me this link:
Cambodian Troops Quarantine Quan'sul
As I read the article I thought, whoa here it is. There is Hope for that one situation to happen that every man dreams of. I don't care who you are or where you are from, I believe one thing and one thing only:
"Every human with a penis over the age of 12, at some point in time, envisions himself and some highly attractive woman in a situation where they have kill a mass amount of zombies until some type of army can arrive for support. "
This is a time tested theory that always holds much like the "30second hot chick rule on Univision" [for those that don't know at anytime Univision is broadcasting if you flip it to that channel you are guaranteed to see a hot chick in less than 30 seconds])
So alas when I read this "BBC" article My first thought was where exactly would me and the wife have to fight off said zombies ( I just earned some massive wife points), what would we use, and could the dogs take care of themselves? The answer to the last question is Yes on the Jack Russell, but the Min Pin is toast. The Min Pin would have yellow/red eyes quicker than MJ in Thriller.
There is a group of about 9 of guys that we email each other sometimes during the day to talk about all sorts of topics that somehow always end up boiling down to evolution, religion, politics, or Georgia Football, so I emailed the link out to see what the response was completely expecting tactical discussions to ensue.
And they did, here is a stellar conversation that I had make record of:
My Original Email:
Fuck Yeah! Zombies!
http://65.127.124.62/south_asia/4483241.stm.htm
J:
I laughed like hell at this, but then got scared at it.
R:
wow, that is messed up
Me:
Its not real (note the ip in place of domain). But upon first glance it was sent to me and I had visions of 28 days later, and thought "oh shit, time to work on my zombie kill skills [which I have lots of]" I think that if it were ever to come down to me and zombies, I woud fare somewhat well as long as I have ample ammo. The firewhip skills I have aquired would be a huge bonus. Now to find a Simon Belmont outfit on ebay.
J:
Well, it’s either the birdflu or zombism. Either way I am boarding up my windows and buying an assload of ammo.
**At this point a side conversation started about going to a shooting range sometime soon, and how the words "Most Likely Mikey" sound like an awesome 80s band name, back to the Zombies**
A:
This is exactly why I am getting a shotgun. It is widely known that shotguns are the most effective zombie killers
Me in Reply to A:
I guess it is just a jedi mentatity that I have. There is art within the lightsaber, just like there is art in the way I mow down anal bleeding zombies with a firewhip. Yes I know I could take out many many more with a shotgun, but seriously who looks cooler? The guy standing 40 feet away spraying an onslaught of slowly marching zombies up the street? Or the guy who is in the thick of them so much that you can't actually see him, you just see the arc'ing tail of two flaming whips creating their own island of living in the sea of undead.
James E Belmont is on the loose. Zombie Heads will be flown.
J in Reply to A:
Hell no they are not. It takes too long to pump and reload when you are in the midst of multiple zombies. You are dead sucka.
Me again in Reply to A:
Come on A, didn't you read THE MANUAL? (No lie I acutally have this book at home if anyone wants to borrow, I am dead serious.)
Dead Serious (get it?)
M chimes in:
What a great argument….
I think the light saber would be the coolest personally… Or one of those weapons in blade 3 with the light saberesque quality that you could use to slice flesh like butta.
Me in Response to M:
I don't know what is scarier, zombies overtaking the planet or the thought of a 3rd Blade movie.
(just kidding, Jessica Biel makes anything hot)
** At this point we went into a side conversation about Jessica Beil Vs Elisha Cuthbert, back to Zombies**
A Again:
Talking about fictional weapons I would agree nothing would be better against zombies than a lightsaber. But from my extensive zombie killing experience the shotgun is best against small groups of zombies
J in reply to A:
Not nearly precise enough (considering they die from severing or putting a bullet through their head) and not fast enough. One or two zombies here or there and the shotgun is effective, but you are fucked when they get through. Give me a minigun and I will save us all.
http://www.montysminiguns.com/
Me (trying to move it into a political conversation so that we can end with one of our 4 as previously stated and thus completing the circle) :
Don't call me a bleeding heart liberal, but for starters we need to take political movements against them. Start to stiffle of their ability to vote via voting regualtions, maybe introduce a new cheap and highly addictive drug into the zombie community. If that doesnt work then we should move into move aggressive and voilent tactics. I am not trying to appease any specific zombies, but we gotta be fair to them and lets just admit it the porous border with Canada is just an open door for them, and I don't see them bringin over any of those cheap perscriptions either. Thats what sucks about them being undead is that they have no need for universal healthcare up there, so of course they come here to America.
GD Zombies ain't going to be f'n with my votes. Images liek this just make me sick. That zombie wasnt born here, he didn't die here. Why the fuck should he get to make political statements. Its worse than Neil fucking Young.
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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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