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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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(Monday, January 29)
3 excellent albums from last week...
As my last.fm stats will tell you, last weeks was a helluva good week for new music. 3 albums that I think might be in my top 25 of 2007 (yeah already in January) were purchased and are being loved on my ipod, x360, home and work computer:
Spyte at Eq2D told me about this one last week, not sure how I missed Albarn coming out with a new group/cd, but this is great. It IS NOT Demon Days Gorillaz, so if you are expecting something with high energy this is not the CD you are looking for *waves hand*. My favorite Gorillaz cd is Space Monkeys Vs The Gorillaz: Laika Come Home and although not as reggae as that album, this does have that moody, droning sounds to it coupled with great lyrics. Good stuff.
My wife was totally sick of me blaring Phantom Limb from the past few weeks from my office, but i couldn't get enough of that single. I would not say that the entire Wincing the Night away album is as catchy as that single, but there are some highlights for me Black Wave, Split Needles, and I don't know why the itunes Bonus track Nothing At All didn't make the album, it is excellent.
Orange Twin ftw! E6 bands have always gone from one end of the spectrum to the other with me. I love Beulah, Elf Power, Olivia Tremor Control, although Neutral Milk Hotel and some others I never really caught on to. Of Montreal was kinda in the middle for me, not bad by any means, but also not stellar. This album is catchy and will probably propel them into the "buy next album for sure" status with me. Now to try that Apples in Stereo...
Update for Justin:
The Good, The Bad, and The Queen - Self Titled - Streaming Here.
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away - Streaming Here.
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Desroyer? - Streaming Here.
Note: As much as I loathe myspace, I am pretty impressed I was album to find all three of these albums streaming on there.
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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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