December 2007
19 posts
To Read: The Lambda Calculus →
“What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?—”
– W.H. Davies
Guitar Hero 3 →
Harrison Bergeron →
MapReduce →
On the Fundamentals of Programming →
President or PR Pro?
When we look for a president, do we really want a grave man capable of handling matters of gravity? Or are we seeking a figurehead to make us feel better about our place in the world? When I look at images of all the great men of our country’s previous ages, none of them have that glassy, interesting look that we tend to think of now as a prerequisite for the presidency. Instead, they...
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain
Good Taste →
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about design, and specifically good design. Denying the idea of good design is concomitant to relativism on a scale Benedict XVI would be deathly afraid of. So what is it, and why do people insist on saying that taste is relative. Maybe it’s because there are so few Jonathan Ive’s in the world.
A nice comparison of Ruby/Rails and Python/Django →
Thought of the day
Wouldn’t it be cool to have an iPhone app that saw other iPhones nearby and could interchange data with them.. like for instance contacts, calendar items, etc? Waiting for the SDK.. (might as well at this point.)
Deactivated
I did something mildly interesting today. I disconnected from the social network. I unplugged. I ditched the behemoth. I deactivated my Facebook account. Of course, you can’t actually delete your Facebook account, that would be too simple. And they want it to be an easy process for all the addicts to come back. I’ve never been addicted to the sociality bug. Twitter, Facebook,...
“I’ve been drawing all my life, just as a hobby, without really having shows or...”
– Kurt Vonnegut in the last interview he ever gave
