Rock Star alter egos are growing in numbers "You're forming a fake band -- that's what you do," says Sadri, calling the game "the best part of karaoke, adding in a drummer and guitars."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed. The only way for you to survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern... a virus.
-Agent Smith (The Matrix)
If you can't tell, I am pissed about the 3rd one going in within a 10 mile radius of my house. It sucks because I hate it and want to closed, but I also don't want it closed because I don't want some abandoned husk of a strip mall waiting to be consumed by crap/4th tier shops at the low low price the current/future resident's company could handle taking a loss to sell too.
I hear ya...the third one within an 8 mile radius of my house is currently being fought by the citizens of Duluth...sucks that I already know they'll lose. However, I am quite excited about the nail salon and dry cleaners that will inevitably tag along, Lord knows we don't have enough of them either.
You know, it would be interesting to chart walmart proximity to average income and some kind of quality of life measurements.
We live in Virginia-Highland, and the nearest walmart is probably almost miles away up at collier and 85.
At the same time, there are no walmarts close to bankhead highway and other poverty stricken areas.
I'm sure you'd see a classic bell curve with the number of walmarts within 5 miles parked right around the media income and a big drop off for the wealthy and poor.
I always want to take a shower after I leave Wal-Mart. This, of course, is contributing to the water shortage as thousands of Georgians have to go home and clean the white trash off of them after shopping at WMT. It's not the Core of Engineers fault...
