Where Are The Wise Men?

As usual, my lack of posts doesn’t mean a lack of active.  One of the many things that has gone on this week is that I finally reported for Federal Jury Duty.

I had been “on call” all month, and I thought I was going to never have to report.  Alas, I got a letter last [...]

Gina sent me this hilarious link of the Omaha Barbie dolls. Yes, it plays on stereotypes. And it’s still funny.

And we live in Millard, and drive a mini-van. Although both of us have college degrees.

A few months ago, I tried TextMate just to see what all the fuss was about. I was skeptical with it, and a bit confused — it came from a totally different mindset than Emacs and one that I didn’t necessarily get. I quickly removed it and enjoyed life with Aquamacs. Fast forward to [...]

I mentioned this book earlier, but this is the full review.

Heat is a true story about Bill Buford who was assigned to do a profile on Mario Batali for The New Yorker. What his boss probably didn’t know is that Buford has always wanted to be a cook in a restaurant, to really [...]

When I started doing Java development, I thought I was going to use Emacs less and less and Eclipse more and more.  But I was wrong — I find myself copying text out of Eclipse all the time to put into Emacs. In Emacs, I write a keyboard macro to wrangle the text into submission, [...]

As Gina wrote, yesterday was “Meals for a Month” time again, when she and I make 15 different meals to feed us for a month. This month went better than last time, but then we only make them for us not for Gina’s sister and her husband. Half as many meals makes a [...]

"Fabulous Adventures In Coding : How Not To Teach Recursion" said: A Joel On Software reader asked the other day for examples of recursive functions other than old chestnuts like Fibonacci or factorial

I've never figured out what is difficult about recursion -- I've always just "gotten it". Am I that special? Or did I [...]

I'll put aside my distaste for getters and setters and just assume they are a fact of life. And, for me now, they are -- all of the data classes in the project I inherited have them. Okay, I can deal. And it seems that each one has internal classes representing data [...]

From Stephen Colebourne's Weblog:

[Bill Joy] was often comparing Oak to more complicated and elegant languages like Python and Beta. He would often go on at length about how great Oak would be if he could only add closures and continuations and parameterized type.

What's funny is that I'm still working on Java 1.4.2 and I really [...]

Variety.com - HBO turns 'A Song of Fire and Ice' into fantasy series

I hate to say it, but HBO is the only network that may do it justice.