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This sunday morning NPR was close to perfect. No Iraq war just Jonathan Coulton and Alton Brown back to back. It possible that Code Monkey is no longer my fav JC song. I think its been replaced by Shop Vac. Maybe you don’t like Alton. But really how can you not like someone that makes…

I have nothing much to add to this. So I’ll just quote it alot. Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. – Chuang-Tzu (350 B.C.) Openly agitating against the very pursuit of happiness was considered a sedition of the most insidious hazard. Because nearly everyone feels its weird invisible pressure – driving them…

Pretty neat little blog experiment. For the month of November, I’m only spending $30 on food. The only exception will be things that are freely available to the average person (salt taken from restaurants, sauce packets from Taco Bell, free coffee from an office). Buying in advance is fine, but at the end of the…

I hope that the Legacy Code post doesn’t imply that I am any kind of fan of the Intelligent Design movement. As someone who finds value in both faith and science, a movement which so horribly distorts the things I find wonderful about both is pretty unappealing to me except in the context perhaps of…

I don’t know much about genetics but I have done some research into it lately. Mostly, I wanted to learn more about how genes mutate and combine to form new genes and see how this relates to the way computer programs are constructed. Not surprisingly our genetic code does not seem to be very clean…

Since I got back from El Salvador, I seem to be having a lot of trouble re-adjusting. There are a lot of potential reasons for this and as usual I have spent too much time over-examining most of them. There were a lot of thoughts and feelings compressed into one week. It never seemed like…

I went to El Salavdor a few weeks ago and had a completely wonderful time. Unforunately, I got sick when I got back and it took a long time to recover. I learned the hard way that having low energy can lead to pretty bad feelings of depression etc. Usually the best cure for this…

Or read the right wing blogs. Its so much fun to see them try to find a silver lining or make their point about what this means about the GOPs future direction. Its so much fun because they sound like the Democrats have after the last few elections and its just nice to be reminded…

So now Vanity fair has the latest in the series of statements by proponents of the Irag War who now are saying that if they had known it would be this bad they maybe wouldn’t have, you know, been for the war. This time its Richard Perle, the only man in America who might be…

I have never been a member of the Unit Testing Cult. That’s not to say that I don’t think tests are a good idea, or that I haven’t used them in the past. Maybe I just haven’t worked on enough XML parsers. Most of the work I have done is in highly interactive applications (video…