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Bend, Oregon: Mt Bachelor, Cascade Lakes Brewing Company and some snow.

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, [...]

Bend Oregon is not exclusive enough!

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 launches… feel free to tip me!

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 [...]

Seattle has a Functional Programming Interest Group

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, [...]

Blocking I/O in Restrooms considered harmful to bladders.

Blocking IO:

Non Blocking IO:

Can anyone give me a high performance advanced threading analogy for green threads?