Monthly Archives: March 2005

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(from a lunch conversation) Customer: “Is your computer LRF-compliant?” Salestype: “Sure!” [A salestype will promise anything to make a deal] (later, back at the home office) Salestype (to engineer): “What does LRF mean?” Engineer: “Little Rubber Feet” Salestype: “Uh oh….”

Style matters. Print out your stuff. Take a step back and squint. Can you still see structure, or is it all a blur? What if you pasted the thing on the wall and stood back ten feet; could you still … Continue reading →

(from BoingBoing). An altogether hazardous representation of popular songs. Link.

You heard it here first: Thomas Keller [principle of the famous French Laundry restaurant] sells out with his new line of frozen foods… Lobster Tots Fava Bean and Asparagus Express “Lite” Leg of Lamb …can’t go on…

James Howard Kunstler’s The Long Emergency. Link

Fritz Leiber’s story Space Time for Springers, about genius kittens, coffee, mirrors and metamorphosis….

With the foo-fa-rah and circus surrounding the Schiavo case [1], it’s always useful to ask: What is going on while (they think) we’re all looking at the Goodyear Blimp? I don’t know. I’m just paranoid. Keep your eyes peeled. [1] … Continue reading →

What is this “leading underscore on identifiers” crap that I’ve been seeing all over the place? (Note to C programmers: Symbols with leading underscores don’t belong to you. They belong to the toolchain). Besides, they look ugly.

Andre Norton died this morning, age 93. (CNN link). I loved The Stars are Ours, and Dark Piper. I’m going to re-read them now…