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.
He said that he was "disappointed in myself" and that "dogfighting is a terrible thing and I ... reject it."
He said, "Through this situation I've found Jesus."
During a hearing Monday, U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson asked Vick if he understood the charge. Vick responded, "Yes sir."
Lawyer X: Alright Mike, we have 2 choices at this junction.... You are going to have to go out there and either run with the Religion Card or throw out the Rehab Card. Whats it gonna be?
I am all for allowing people to atone for their sins. But the thing about this is that it isn't something you can really apologize for because it was much more than a lapse in judgment, it was a pattern of behavior over several years.
Say someone gets into a nasty domestic dispute and ends up getting physical with their wife. That is reprehensible behavior, but it can be forgiven. Maybe the guy lost his temper, things got nasty and he just lost control. The guy would deserve punishment and his actions should be condemned in the harshest terms - certainly beating your wife is worse than beating a dog. However, it is an out of control behavior that can be changed and was the result of a heated emotional situation.
With Vick, this was years of sociopathic behavior. It wasn't like he went out with his boys, had some drinks and ended up at a dogfighting event. He was in charge of this brutal enterprise for years. I just can't forgive that kind of thing and I don't buy the Jesus thing, which is so cliche as to be comical.
It was the PR manager that told him to make that statement. Vicks about to go in front of a Virgina district court judge for sentencing. That old dude don't give a F*** what he has already said on the steps, he's trying to make it to the supreme son, and I don't mean Taco Bell burritos...
Anyhow, Judge will most likely impose the maximum of the proposal or higher. Illicit gambling operations with dogs is never msiled upon in the U.S. and that Judge knows that. Jesus aside.
You sorry, sorry, sorry bastard. How dare you make light of such things! You, sir, are worse than a million Hitlers.
BTW, Virgin records had a big schwag giveaway today and I picked up like 30 cds of artists I have never heard of. I am listening to a disc by some DJ who goes by the name of Ravin. I like it and I thought of you... which is why I popped over, to give you a recommendation. Check the guy out some time.
On I more positive taking advanage of kids note, I pay this kid 10 dollars a week in Mac town to clean my car. He does a emmaculent job. Best thing is, his name is Bentley.
HBO has decided to bring back rookie comedy "Flight of the Conchords" and veteran comedy "Entourage" for another season of Sunday fare.
It will be the fifth season on the Home Box Office network for "Entourage," which was widely expected to be picked back up. But the re-signing of newcomer "Flight of the Conchords," a quirky show that follows two New Zealand musicians trying to make it in New York, was the real surprise, said The Hollywood Reporter Sunday.
Forbidden Lego was written by a pair of Lego master builders, who used to work in designing advanced Lego sets (e.g., Mindstorms). While they obviously got to work on lots of cool things while they were there, there were certain projects that just turned out not to be suitable to be made into kits released by the Lego company. They wrote the book to give some kind of a tantalizing hint at the kinds of things that go on behind the scenes at Lego, and the kinds of neat things that might get released in a world without product liability suits.
Time to round up some bricks. Adding the NXT distance and sound sensor to this could prove to be quite enjoyable attaching to the bottom of doors when people open them.
I already owned a PC, PS2 and a PSP and barely had the time for them. My Guitar Hero controller had already been ravaged by my 2-year-old, the TV was covered in finger- and handprints and the PSP was caked with dried Go-gurt. Times were hard and gaming time was becoming scarce. What had happened to me? I used to be the guy who could stay up for hours on end playing FPSes, MMOGs, you name it. When I played EverQuest, I would set my alarm for 3:00 a.m. to wake up in time for the next Bilge Farfathom spawn. Now, my alarm clock is a crying baby that spawns dirty diapers. It just isn't fair.
Congratz Poppy! I did feel a slight disturbance in the force Monday morning and figured something was up. There's no other feeling like being a dad. I think their must be some sort of monopoly on those sock hats.
“Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless.”
Wow, congrats! She is a cutie. If she marries my little boy someday that will be weird because everyone will think they are related. To make sure this never happens I'm moving to another state. So long Thompson family. Best wishes
Johnson & Johnson, the health-products giant that uses a red cross as its trademark, sued the American Red Cross on Wednesday, demanding that the charity halt the use of the red cross symbol on products it sells to the public.
Johnson & Johnson said it has had exclusive rights to use the trademark on certain commercial products — including bandages and first-aid cream — for more than 100 years.
It contends that the Red Cross is supposed to use the symbol only in connection with nonprofit relief services.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in New York, marked the breakdown of months of behind-the-scenes negotiations and prompted an angry response from the Red Cross.
"For a multibillion-dollar drug company to claim that the Red Cross violated a criminal statute ... simply so that J&J can make more money, is obscene," said Mark Everson, the Red Cross president.
Someone needs to give the legal department the PR Depts. phone number and vice versa. J&J can't come out looking good on this.
I understand the premise of this article, I think there is most certainly some validity to it. But as a whole this is probably the most ridiculous piece of sensational writing I have read in awhile. The reenactment photos sent it over the edge for me. I vow to never read Wright Thompson again if I can help it.
Read that the other day and the exact same thing came to my mind. My favorite part was his last "cut-away" about the son driving him around and pointing out the "invisible bus stops". Talk about reaching...
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.
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.
Feist - The Reminder I CANNOT GET "I feel it all" OUT OF MY HEAD. Period. Great album, angelic voice.
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.
Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worse Nightmare No Sophomore slump here. Just as good (if not better) than Whatever they Say.
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..
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.
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.
