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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, April 16)
Mes Del Agua II : It Begins Anew... Again.
Over the past few weeks I have slowly stopped working out (lots of work to do around home) and started gaining a little weight. After reading a story on MSNBC on how the soon-to-be-father ends up gaining a lot of weight during the pregnancy also (Couvade Light?), I decided last week that I needed to kick in a 'Mes Del Agua' for the month before we go on vacation. For those that don't remember Mes Del Agua 1 (success) and Mes Del Agua 2 (Failure), basically I will only be drinking water for the next 30 days (this includes flavored waters, but not juices, and not rum/beer flavored water). This, in conjunction with a optimal 1500 Calorie diet coupled with 3 or 4 days a week at the gym, I am hoping will pull me down from the 173 I am now, to the 155 target I want to weigh before the baby arrives (August). I had originally planed to be around 160 (from my max at 187 a few years ago) but even with working out 3or 4x a week I hit a blockade around 165, so maybe this (only water, no carbonation etc) will give me an extra boost into the 150s. Maintaining it will be another issue once I get there.
The pic above is of me polishing off the last of some tasty Myers light last night. The most interesting thing is the shot glass (which is really ice and made from the mold to the left) which I have had in the freezer for a few weeks but had not broken out to try a frosted shot of rum. There were ~2 left in the bottle so I went ahead and polished them off last night before midnight as bon voyage shots.
When I did the first Mes Del Agua I remember pretty clearly the sequence of events. Nights 1 - 3 it was kinda hard to go to bed (the nightcaps/uncle Pappy's Cough Syrup are not available to induce the sleepyness), Days 2-4 are some serious headache days (the full withdrawal of caffeine is pretty rude to the brain), but after day 5 things start to get a little better and after week 1, I remember seriously actually having more energy during the day, but at night my body was very tired (which is how it should be naturally I assume). So at least this time when attempting the Mes Del Agua I know what I am getting myself into. The first Mes Del Agua I was accompanied by my wife (who was very resolute and did it with flying colors), the second time I tried it by myself but failed less than a week into it. I am keeping a pretty strict diet/calorie intake and keeping a pretty detailed spreadsheet this time of calorie intake, so I am hoping that will keep the willpower strong when the Earl Gray caffeine muse sings its sweet song to me in the afternoons.
The Mes Del Agua will end at midnight on May 13th and we leave for a long weekend at the beach that Thur so I plan on having a Semana de Cerveza after this is all over.
Labels: Mes Del Agua
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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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