Category: legacy
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I speak many languages…
Long ago I started my programming days in [[wp:BASIC_programming_language|BASIC]] as did many others. Then I graduated to [[wp:C_programming_language|C]]. Roughly in order of accumulation, some of the other languages I became familiar with are… [[wp:BASIC_programming_language|BASIC]] [[wp:C_programming_language|C]] [[wp:Assembly_language|Assembly]] [[wp:C_Plus_Plus|C++]] [[wp:Visual_Basic|Visual Basic]] [[wp:Perl]] [[wp:PHP]] [[wp:Python_programming_language|Python]] [[wp:C_Plus_Plus|C#]] [[wp:Ruby_programming_language|Ruby]] There are more of course, any number of small embedded languages…
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The fighting pacifists!
Ah, the left – poor, confused, desperate freaks that they are. With the Democratic party rudderless and the war in Iraq firmly refusing to turn into the debacle (complete with large numbers of US soldiers in body bags) they really need to feel like htey finally get to pretend it’s the 60’s they have little…
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Brutality…
Wow. This is cold… “Ok fine. Then you must be 5’1 and have a very small frame….with a bunch of um, stuff covering it.” – quote in context You want to see the rest of the thread? Go ahead and read this TuckerMax blog post to get the story, then read this whole thread to…
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Hot number(s)! The golden ratio…
TLC :: The Human Face is a good article discussing facial beauty and proportions. “Dr. Marquardt theorizes that we discern whether a face is obviously human by unconsciously comparing it to an ideal face that lurks in the unreachable recesses of the psyche. Since we have no direct access to this ideal “most human” face, we…
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Think happy thoughts…
So I was reading a book recently and I decided to drop a note to someone who features prominently int he tale that we had been in touch with once long ago. To my amazement they wrote back. Rub your crystals, say a prayer, do something unspeakable with a dark god – but let’s see if…
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Geek out!
A number of geek links. Science, technology and Apple’s latest toy… Keeping secrets Science & Technology at Scientific American.com- Best-Kept Secrets — [ INNOVATION ] — Quantum cryptography has marched from theory to laboratory to real products How people work If they can’t even play with trucks correctly… – Metafilter – a typically panicky discussion…
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Back…
Got back from house/dog sitting for Tatsumi and Kimiko and I had a good, relaxing time. Got some awesome brainstorming done and it was a totally productive time for all the relaxation. Night!
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Sleep!
Circadiana- Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Too Afraid To Ask) – via this MeFi thread. “There is a continuum of individual sleep patterns ranging from extreme “larks” who fall asleep at the first inkling of dusk but wake up before dawn, all the way to the extreme “owls” who stay…
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A while back I started working with re-organizing my life.
PDF Link A while back I started working with re-organizing my life. After looking around at the situation I came across “Getting Things Done“, a book by David Allen that seriously helped me out. I know, I know, it would all seem so obvious. But yet, strangely it isn’t. [[wp:GTD]] comes down to the idea…