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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, September 17)
Awesome Day of SEC Football
Dear SEC Football,
Wow. What a great Saturday of SEC football. I have to admit I expected a much closer game in Athens today. Last time UAB was in town we were at that game and it was hot as hell, and in all honestly UAB gave us hell. UGA eeked by with a 15-13 win, that was a very very close game (and if I remember correctly pretty much the closest of that year). So today I expected a decent game (better than what I expect of Colorado next weekend). The game was hot and we sweltered the entire time (I can't imagine the players and the band in their uniforms) but man we reeked on the car ride home. We went to the game with some long time friends who it was great to see again. After the game we went by some of my family's tailgating spots then hit up the edgemoor tailgating extravaganza to watch the Auburn LSU game. MAN what a football game, we got to watch the end of it on their TV (nice LCD digital tailgating TV, they do it right) and then we decided to hit the road to get home so we could watch the Fla/Tenn game before sleep. On the way home we stopped off and got some great Caesar chicken wraps from taco mac and caught the last 3 quarters of the UF/Tenn game. I didn't think anything would be better than the Aub/LSU game and I was wrong, Fla/tenn was just as good. I figured Fla would destroy Tenn just because of Tenn showing (or lack off) with Air Force inside Neland last weekend, but they were good competition to Fla. I thought they were going to win till halfway through the 4th quarter. With the LSU/Auburn game there was one play that I didn't agree with the call and which will go down in infamy in the series (and surely create ticket sales next year between the two teams) so it was a MIGHTY close game. The Fla/UT game was close also, but was pretty fairly called (from a a UGA fan perspective) so I don't know who I *should* be rooting for with regards to BCS, but I honestly expected UF to win (especially after Air Force last week Vs Tenn, and also I think Chris Leak is probably the best QB in the SEC right now), but man I hate the gators. Although beating Spurrier last week at SC, has made me hate them a lot less this season. i still think we are going to play a great game against Tenn/Fla. Auburn has me worried, but I don't think that LSU is the caliber (on Offense) that we are. It think our Def is just as good (if not better) than LSU, and if they gave them that much hell, we have a really really good chance of beating them.
P.S. Oh and even though this was a kick ass day of SEC football, the highlight for me, by far... was the UGA band playing Seven Nation Army during the 4th quarter of the game.
That Fuckin' Rocked.
P.P.S. Please send word to CBS stations: Most UGA fans don't like Vern Lunquist, I actually do think he is a good commentator, please keep him on. BUT PLEASE, PLEASE get rid of those stupid fucking video montages at halftime of all the SEC games of the day's highlights set to some song off an emo kids ipod. I would rather watch a commercial for Head On than watch some Tenn receiver catch some lucky ass pass set to some shitty and lame All American Rejects music. It's Lame. Don't Do It!
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I also started season 2 of Deadwood. The first 2 episodes of season 2 are mindblowing. Almost as good as season 2 episode 1 of Lost (the best Lost episode ever).
Photos at SI.com
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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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