December 2008
24 posts
“One of the primary goals of Puppet is to allow users to push the details into...”
– Big Picture - puppet - Trac
Less details, more information, so true and the goal of so much of what we strive for in software engineering.
Top 5 Pastor Rick Blog Posts
1) Cake, Kool-Aid, and a birthday party for Jesus
In the words of my favorite bully when I was in the 5th grade at Tri-City, David Williamson, how fucking retarded.
2) What Do You Think Motivates People?
Wow, Pastor Rick that was very insightful. I am so glad you sit in your office and come up with this shit. I might as well write a paper on combinatorial functional programming called:...
“The change in the world economy is of a magnitude that comes once every hundred...”
– Toyota Expects Its First Loss in 70 Years - NYTimes.com
Which means that 2008 will probably be the best year financially (and maybe in many other ways) in a long time.
“As Luis Miranda, who runs a private equity firm devoted to developing India’s...”
– Talking Business - Avoiding a Financial Collapse, Indian-Style - NYTimes.com
Sorry, a must read again.
“Some public stations, as well as commercial stations, program the...”
– Fred Rogers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
in 1979 referring to the VCR in the controversial hearings about the device before the Supreme Court. I post this because Matt and I have had similar thoughts about the Tivo, the IPOD, RSS feeds, and other things that let us control when we are...
Is this really what it takes to do a timezone...
We need a 100% guarantee for every human being...
along the lines of: No matter what happens you are guaranteed until you die:
1) A very high level of free preventive health care and daily access to nutritious food.
2) Free almost unlimited education.
3) A livable wage and job as long as you can work and a pension aftewards.
4) Workmen’s comp, family leave.
5) A clean and technologically advanced living space with clean air, free...
“Does that mean newspapers are doomed? Not necessarily. There are many possible...”
– News You Can Lose: Financial Page: The New Yorker
Would a silly alternative be to nationalize a few of the best newspapers, ala NPR? This would maintain the quality and low price of the information source of newspapers.
“As Asia boomed, a glut of global savings emerged—in China, in other exporting...”
– Why Infrastructure?: Think Tank: Online Only: The New Yorker
“It’s the job of the left to move the center,” she says. “Get out there and say...”
– Profiles: Outside Agitator: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Uhh, exactly.
Op-Ed Columnist - Two Cheers for Rod Blagojevich -... →
Must read. Yes I said it.
“I propose two things: First - make Exxon/Mobil bail out these three. 11Billion a...”
– G.M.s Lutz: Wagoner Is Being Made a Sacrificial Lamb - Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds — DealBook - New York Times
“The challenge of confronting terrorists who have a vast support network is huge;...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - The Terrorists Want to Destroy Pakistan, Too - NYTimes.com
This op-ed piece by the president of Pakistan is striking as it shows the greater sacrifice Pakistan endures in order to fight the war on terror.
“Okay, I get it. “Family-friendly” means your kids and you will both...”
– Twitter / hotdogsladies
“A computer science student is studying under a tree and another pulls up on a...”
– gabriel dance - multimedia journalist
“If the web is our future, we either need to master the medium ourselves, or...”
– Old Media Interview: Aron Pilhofer, interactive guru, editor at The New York Times | Old Media, New Tricks
Mastering the medium - something the NYT does so with Flash and AS3. They are really one of the few who have mastered flash, most totally abuse it.
“Mr. Gibson: If the intelligence had been right, would there have been an Iraq...”
– Bush: ‘I Was Unprepared for War’ - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
This quote is on my blog to show that George Bush is an idiot who should be impeached for leading us into a war he knew very well was being pursued under false pretenses.
“My dad is kind of dancing to his podcast song. They interviewed a singer on this...”
– Nae Notes
Re: James Franco
