Steve Jobs Is Right Again
Everyone wants a MacBook Pro because they are so bitchin’ Steve Jobs during Apple’s annual shareholder meeting.
I want one.
Archive for April, 2006
Of Men and Cantankerous Gooses
From the Assciated Press is this gem: Man’s best fowl? Goose takes a honkering to elderly cancer patient… Reminds me of one of my favorite gooses:
Sperel!
Better Builds With Maven available as a free download.
Interested in Maven? This book is probably for you and it’s free (after registration.) Here’s a glimpse at what it covers:
An introduction to Maven 2.0 Advanced tools for “power” users Creating J2EE builds and using J2EE models Extending builds through plugins Monitoring source […]
Types of Train Failures
I got this from the UPS package tracking page today:
THE PACKAGE IS DELAYED DUE TO A MECHANICAL TRAIN FAILURE
What other types of failures are there for trains?
Developers can’t wear nice clothes.
When is the interview? anonymous coworker
More background on geek style and dress codes can be found here and here.
Pop Quiz Hot Shot!
Each of two developers can drink a six pack of Mountain Dew in 20 minutes. Together with a third developer, they finish the six pack of Mountain Dew in 6 minutes. In what time can the third developer drink the six pack of Mountain Dew alone? Pair Programming Presented from […]
Chaismus for coders.
Unit tests make sure you you write the code right, Acceptance tests make sure write the right code. Robert Martin Found via Agile Testing
chiasmus (ky-AZ-mus) n . a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases. For more, go checkout the chaismus website.
Practical Common Lisp Book Available Online.
Just a FYI, Practical Common Lisp is available online. I’ve been wanting to own this book and ANSI Common LISP since I attempted to read/understand Paul Graham’s On Lisp. Anyone want to buy either of those for me or send me their copy they no longer use?
Basset hound reflections.
Nothing is more endearing than a hyper basset hound. Regex God Travis
I can’t say more…
Gastroenteritis, or “How I lost 4lbs in 24 hours and you can too!”
Gastroenteritis aka “Stomach Flu”, thank you for helping me lose 4lbs in 24 hours. Normally I like to sleep at night, but you reminded me that sleep is for the weak and I’ve been wasting too much of my life doing it.
It seems I could spend some time trying to gain back that 4lbs…
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