“You can’t compare this to South Lake Union or downtown,” he says. “Not all areas are created equal.” Jeff Thompson, of the Freehold Group, the development company that has spearheaded the Dravus effort Seattle Times: Red tape fences in Interbay overhaul
Have a look at this google map for a compare and contrast
For the past week Jodi has seen “something outside the window” and I didn’t believe her. Finally yesterday I saw it also. I couldn’t just sit by while a rat/mouse was running on the wire so I had to stalk it and get its picture. Tonight I sat on the deck camera in one hand and a flashlight in the other ready to ’shoot’ this creature. For about 25 minutes it was too light for it to come out, but finally I got it.
So far I haven’t seen any signs of them in my house, but I know they must be around. :(
There’s just something about limiting yourself to one a day that creates something special. You don’t want to waste the opportunity on something average, so you carefully select the one thing you are gong to showcase or possibly create. And when viewed over time, it’s way more than that. It’s a timeline to your life.
The source talks about how companies facing avalanches of data (and the bills that come with it) changed their strategy to from MANY-per-DAY to ONE-per-DAY and their continuing survival in their markets. Two things stood out in the selected quote:
You don’t want to waste the opportunity on something average
Are you doing something average? If so, why? How can you change it?
…over time, it’s way more than that. It’s a timeline to your life.
Do you want the timeline of your life to be average? Office space offers one perspective:
Peter Gibbons: What if we’re still doin’ this when we’re 50?
Samir: It would be nice to have that kind of job security.
Remember, you can do anything, anything at all. The only limit is yourself!
If all the 275 million arable acres in the U.S. were planted with nothing but soy for the production of soy oil to be used as fuel. It would offset our dependence on oil by just 14 percent — and the country would be starving to death. Kicking the gas habit: baby steps
Yay!
Jodi and I went to Bend for a 4 day spring trip. If you need the long drawn out story, check out the three part series otherwise keep on reading.
Day 1 in Bend, OR: Redmond Airport, Shopping in the Old Mill District and Tumalo Falls
Day 2 in Bend, OR: Skiing Mt Bachelor, Cascade Lakes Brewing Company, and El Caporel for dinner.
We landed to a very busy Redmond, OR airport… one plane on the tarmac.
We made it to Cascade Lakes Brewing Company where I enjoyed a very excellent nitro Irish Stout.
Jodi and I got a bit of skiing in at Mt Bachelor.
We wandered around Bend being lazy all day. We got in some ice skating also, to see pictures of me on ice skates check out Jodi’s Day 3 post.
Nothing too special happened on the fourth day and so there aren’t any special pictures. Jodi had me drive around to look at the various gymnastics gyms in town, we drove around through all the neighborhoods and had some great views of all the mountains on a wonderful blue spring day. We landed at Seatac around 6PM, met my parents (our dog sitters this weekend) to pick up Kokanee and were home at 10:30PM leaving me 6 hours before I flew to Denver, yay!
I have dorky friends… sometimes too dorky…
Wes says: jodi and I are going to bend, or this weekend.
Matt says: i’m going to bend, xor
Matt says: it’s much more exclusive.
TipJoy.com launched last Friday. The premise is that you can leave a tip and build up a balance before having to give out your credit card number or PayPal account information. So far everyone I’ve talked to says that they wouldn’t leave a tip if they saw the banner ad, what do you think?
From http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-February/038991.html
All,
Apologies for multiple listings.
A small cadre of us are organizing a Northwest Functional Programming Interest Group (hey… NWFPIG, that’s kinda funny). Our first official meeting is at the
The Seattle Public Library 1000 - 4th Ave. Seattle, WA 98104
from 17:00 - 18:00 on February 20th.
On the first meeting’s agenda we’ll be
- giving people who are interested in or actively using FP for work or play a chance to meet
- seeking to build up a pipeline of presentations and guest speakers
- trying to keep organizational mishigosh to a minimum
Blocking IO:
Non Blocking IO:
Can anyone give me a high performance advanced threading analogy for green threads?
Steve Freeman wrote Checklist-Driven Programming about the New Yorker, Atul Gawande article that I previously compared to lean. He asks how this portion of the article maps to software:
The tasks of medical science fall into three buckets. One is understanding disease biology. One is finding effective therapies. And one is insuring those therapies are delivered effectively.
Drawing parallels to medical science in the article, I’ll paraphrase a bit…
One is understanding software disease biology, formal methods and provable software. One is finding effective therapies (methodologies) xp, crystal, rup, CMMI, etc. And one is insuring those therapies are delivered effectively… lean and iteration.
Compare and contrast Automatically Validating Temporal Safety Properties of Interfaces and a medical paper, Genomics as a Probe for Disease Biology, and I think you’ll agree.
Wikipedia on formal methods:
In computer science and software engineering, formal methods are mathematically-based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems. The use of formal methods for software and hardware design is motivated by the expectation that, as in other engineering disciplines, performing appropriate mathematical analyses can contribute to the reliability and robustness of a design. However, the high cost of using formal methods means that they are usually only used in the development of high-integrity systems, where safety or security is important.
Wikipedia on software methodolgies: A software development process is a structure imposed on the development of a software product. Synonyms include software life cycle and software process. There are several models for such processes, each describing approaches to a variety of tasks or activities that take place during the process.
Wikipedia on clinical protocols: A Clinical Trial Protocol is a document that describes the objective(s), design, methodology, statistical considerations, and organization of a clinical trial. The protocol usually also gives the background and reason the trial is being conducted, but these could be provided in other documents referenced in the protocol (such as an Investigator’s Brochure).
See Lean: Stopping the Line, Empowering the Individual to Affect Quality in Medicine for a lean perspective on medicine. The key is iteration at all levels aiming at continually improvement.