Developer and engineering manager at large
Check out Oak Cliff before and after by Justin Cozart:
Oak Cliff (my neighborhood of residence), is one of Dallas’ most interesting neighborhoods and definitely the least idiomatically Dallas. Do check out the fine imagery.
(I mixed that image up all by my big self, aren’t you proud?)
The Top 10 Rap Songs White People Love | catsandbeer.com:
When these songs come on, White People look at each other and say “Awwww yeah” or “Hell yeah” and are compelled to sing along. Sometimes there’s also a corresponding stupid dance move.
Well I have to admit, at number 9, “The Humpty Dance” is one of my favorites (and a karaoke staple). The author is right too — Humpty Hump/Shock G is a great MC and its too bad people don’t get into the _whole_ album. Number one on the list is “Baby Got Back”, which I will again plead guilty to. I can’t extend as much love to the entire album on which it resides, though.
Further down there’s a write in vote for DJ Kool’s “Let me clear my throat”. Definitely seems to be a favorite of your average Dallas frat boy, though I have to say its really a quite good cut on a not-horrible album. “Getting Jiggy Wit It” is also a write-in, which I feel totally guilty for owning. I keep it on my iPod as penance.
On a whim, I took a shallow dive into the world of C this weekend. Its been a long time since I delved into C. I ended up spending nearly as much time tweaking a build script with the ever-amusing Rake as I did remembering my C skillz[1]. In the end, my goal was to write a simple program that just reads a file and writes it back out. Nothing @cat@ couldn’t handle, sure, but you gotta start somewhere.
A shame, then, that he is now, in the words of Monty Python, an ex-parrot.
By the end, said Dr Pepperberg, Alex had the intelligence of a five-year-old child and had not reached his full potential. He had a vocabulary of 150 words. He knew the names of 50 objects and could, in addition, describe their colours, shapes and the materials they were made from. He could answer questions about objects’ properties, even when he had not seen that particular combination of properties before. He could ask for things – and would reject a proffered item and ask again if it was not what he wanted. He understood, and could discuss, the concepts of “bigger”, “smaller”, “same” and “different”. And he could count up to six, including the number zero (and was grappling with the concept of “seven” when he died). He even knew when and how to apologise if he annoyed Dr Pepperberg or her collaborators.
Its just amazing.
I had a very important lunch appointment today:
Fred’s action items following our discussion were 1) hunt more fat pigeons and 2) figure out how to get more human food. Sounds good to me!
Newton’s Third Law of Physics: _All forces occur in pairs, and these two forces are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction._
Newton’s Third Law, applied to software: To make something generic is to make the simple things complex.
Particle Tree has an excellent article on Fitts’ Law. That’s the one that, amongst other thing, leads to putting the Dock and Start Menu buttons on the edges of the screen. You definitely want to check it out, if only for the terrific images used as demonstration, like this one:
Of course, if you’re more about the math[1] you could just read up on ye olde’ Wikipedia.
fn1. There’s math in UI design?
Still the most difficult orchestral piece I’ve played (though I played it quite poorly at the time):
Gotta love the dueling timpani. And insanely difficult string runs.
“Twitter RSS in XSLT FTW”:http://ftrain.com/xslt_001.html:
bq. You know how the Iraq War solved 9/11? That’s how RSS 2.0 solved syndication.
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