January 2008
78 posts
“He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the
river...”
– Horace
The conversion to the life of the engineer has not come easy. I am not an engineer, nor do I have a special wish to become more like one. This morning I received a request for me to get more done than I will likely be able to get done in the coming few days or face the possibility of termination. I never have especially enjoyed my work. The evolution of the project needed someone of my...
SQL on Rails →
hilarious, esp. the last line.
“Nowadays when someone speaks of “art” you probably think first of...”
– Don Knuth
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notes from HTML5 talk I attended: mike@w3.org (Michael Smith) Spec supposed to be published June ‘06, people not wanting to publish, Qs: what happened to XHTML? Core prob: application behavior between diff. UAs (Web browser) Never had detailed spec. for how HTML should work. HTML4 spec hopelessly deficient, specifically no mention of DOM. HTML5 is functional spec. for HTML, describe...
“God of Heaven has forgotten to defend the weak and innocent, and permitted the...”
– Lincoln
wa 10:30
Creating DSLs with Ruby →
cast all your cares upon him / he cares for you
Stevey's Home Page - Practicing Programming →
What I think you’ll likely find is that math, computer science, writing, and people skills are for the most part timeless, universal skills. Most specific technologies, languages and protocols eventually expire, to be replaced by better alternatives.
Binary Code » Two Thoughts on Computer Science... →
Personally, after fifteen years writing various kinds of software professionally I find that every day I wish Iâd had a deeper, weirder comp-sci eduction in my youth.
josquin/hilliard : de profundis clamavi
Robert D. Kaplan Index →
April 2006
“* Professionally our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of...”
– Vannevar Bush
Ruby Conferences vs. Go Tournaments - O'Reilly... →
CodeKata: Code Kata →
“I felt I could muddle through almost anything, but it was clear that I became...”
– SY
“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy...”
– AE
Pen-cap cutlery - Boing Boing →
Oscilliating between twin Pascalian personalities as part of an experiment in multi-threaded consciousness.
Debugging errors in the stream of cognition, often frustrating to know where to begin. How why does what?
w a 10:28
As a form of accountablity, I will now be making note of my arrival time at work/gym.
Dinner was prepackaged MTR, Indian food. Very cheap also with cheap wine from Romagna. Not very good, but we will see about these other packages. While preparing stumbled upon three Germans reading the latest issue of their country’s Playboy, two were female. I was without words.
Increasing desire to go back and read more of Lincoln’s journals and letters. My own prose is jagged,...
Now firmly ensconced in the mac world am slowing undertaking productivity increasing measures, with great difficulty. I looked for and memorized hotkeys and such with much greater zeal in my youth. Today it seems I have too many other things to worry about, like this jibba jabba.
Reflecting on my several years, one character flaw looms large the past couple months. My exhuberance for...
re: purple prose, does the mention of it make it so?
Vendor Everything — err.the_blog →
Bamboo Blog - Talk @ 2: Using GIT for Rails... →
Data Noise →
* frontend, where you can set breakpoints at any time while your application is running. There are also a couple of additions to the debugger commands: * l[ist] = - displays the current exception point.
Testing and Debugging Ruby on Rails: →
Data Noise: Tutorial on ruby-debug →
Oatmeal this morning, every morning, same as in China and in the US after. Actually Muesli here, seems to be the cheapest option, although still 3x more expensive than bulk oats in the US. These days with a bit of wheat germ and raisins added. In China powdered milk and raisins. In the US often too many things, especially sweetener, although almonds and flax seed were nice.
Work will start a...
steel and silence / I fade … into / this orchestrated mess
“You ask, What is our policy? I will say; “It is to wage war, by sea, land and...”
– Winston Churchill
Preparing to spend a considerable amount of money for a gym membership, possible because of the relatively small amount of money I spend on office space, hoping it may also allow me to meet people. I have not been good at this to date.
I wear the same sweater every day. It is cold here and this wool sweater, purchased in China after a long argument with the shopkeeper and several attendents,...
“Good abilities degenerate, go to waste- I think of all the friends of my school...”
– Edmund Wilson
was coming back at midnight last night, then the swede grabbed me and took me to a swedish designed bar made entirely of ice. as special guests, drinks and admission was free, then some boiled dumplings. Rose late this morning, mixed feelings about the whole occasion. Perhaps too much socialization of this sort.
humankind / cannot bear very much reality
“在青麦地上跑着
雪和太阳的光芒
诗人, 你无力偿还
麦地和光芒的情义
一种愿望
一种善良
你无力偿还
你无力偿还
一颗放射光芒的星辰...”
– 海子,讯问
“Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom.
Though it cost all you have,...”
– Proverbs 4, NIV
“For one reason or another, junior and midlevel officers—lieutenants, captains,...”
– Nagl retires
“For he who devoutly follows in pursuit of the infinite, though he never come up...”
– Thomas Aquinas quoting St. Hilary of Poiters