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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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(Tuesday, May 8)
Baby Registries, End of Mes Del Agua and the physics of Urinal Splashback on Certain Ceramic Toilet Designs
I made it from 4/16/2007, through birthday parties, fiestas, cinco de mayo and my brothers graduation dinner (3 weeks) with only drinking water during the entire span of time. On Sunday, in between registering for baby products at two stores I had to have a beer. Agua Mineral was not going to cut it. I needed an IPA and I needed it right then.
Thus the third Mes Del Agua ended like the second, in failure (although I did last another week this time).
It was a good Tres Quartos Mes Del Agua, I think I lost a total of about 3 lbs during the three weeks, although that is not as much as I lost of the first Mes Del Agua within the first 3 weeks, it was a substantial amount. I have staved off softdrinks for at least the foreseeable future though. Nothing good comes of them, diet or no diet. We bought a small bottle of that new diet coke with vitamins that I was going to try once I finished Mes Del Agua that I had on Monday night just to try (tasted meh.... wasn't bad, wasn't good) but I am going to try to stay off soft drinks for at least the foreseeable future and get my caffeine from tea/coffee. Of course I do have a batch of Steam Beer that gets done on 5/16/07 (which was on purpose for the original Mes Del Agua finish time) that should be good to drink in about a week, so all carbonated drinks are not off the menu, but I am going to cut out soft drinks.
Now about that beer on Sunday, Let me tell you the beer (I forget the exact brew - just another in a long line for my passport at Taco Mac) was extremely tasty, and I have to admit that I felt it after about half the pint, which inevitably led me to the urinal at the Taco Mac. As I pee'd I did notice I started to get a fine mist feeling around my knees. Men know this feeling well, it is the feeling that you must keep the exact exerting force on the pee into the urinal or you will soon get urinal splash back. Now the thing that got me about this specific urinal is that generally when you get a little mist/splashback it comes at the front of the pee (initial placement of the stream against bowl) or the tail end of the pee (during the 'calm down' period) but here I was getting it in the middle of the session. Alas something was not right. I looked down at the urinal looked fairly normal (normal = "American Standard Brand Urinal") but I still kept noticing the splash back precursor and I checked to make sure no one had just put a big ass 'urinal mint' into the urinal that was throwing off it's design deluge dynamics. One thing about urinals is that you always have what i like to call "the fall back point" aka: "The Alamo" It is the point at which the water in the urinal is the deepest, as long as you can muster some good pressure you generally won't get splash back, so if all else fails and you think splash back is inevitable you can always retreat to 'The Alamo' and be safe for the conclusion of the session. I did just that and my fall back point worked like a charm, but I am wondering if it is something with this model specifically, I made sure no one else was in the bathroom (for fear they might have thought I was taking a pic of them, or that i was just some random weirdo that was going to write about urinals on their blog or something) and I snapped a pic of the toilet with the bad design (or is it?) I plan on investigating (and drinking) on this more at Taco Mac.
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(having trouble getting urinal pic from phone, will try to fix tonight)
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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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