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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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(Wednesday, October 18)
and 25 Days Later.....
Yes I know it has been awhile (and by looking at my post logs probably the first time I have ever gone over 2 weeks without posting something) We had a blast on our UK tour, but I had some technical glitches that had to get worked out when I got back on this site, so this is the first chance I get to post about our trip.
Er.. well not post.
Lost is coming on and we finally got caught back up last week, and I must say that the show is starting to grate on me but i am going to go watch it anyways. I see no hints of resolution (at any level) , and as much as I love the show, I really hope it doesn't lose it's glimmer because of story futility (and yes really almost all TV is, but Lost is highly entertaining futility). So look for a bunch of posts in the next few days recounting our trip and me trying to step through Google's 1.65b stock purchase of a legal hornets nest and a bunch of ideas about where Vista and the xbox 360 are going to have hot buttery love making sessions via the cat 5 runing through my house.
We posted tons of pics from our trip (Literally 700+) on Flickr, but we also took a bunch of short videos and I must say that one of the highlights by far from our trip was eating at a conveyor belt sushi restaurant. Yeah there is probably one around Atlanta (and if not I would probably invest in anyone wanting to open one) that I don't know about, but I really really enjoyed tempting fate and watching a certain piece of sushi roll by and seeing if it would come back to me, or if I could correctly guess who would pick it up if not. Sushi Stereotyping.
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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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