One of the things that makes me a great technologist can make me terrible at buying things for myself. I tend to want perfection, which is easy to achieve in code and impossible to attain in real life. My friends and family know that I’ve been talking about a new car for at least a [...]
Archive for 2007
First Church of the Warming Globe Announces Revelation: It’s not the Heat, It’s the Humidity
October 10th, 2007
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Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press wrote an article on a study claiming that humans are causing global rises in humidity. The Fark headline for this was “Nonexistent global warming is causing a mythical rise in theoretical humidity levels in imaginary parts of the world“. Beautiful. To show that this is man-made, Gillett [one of [...]
If Meetings Were Like Blog Comments
October 7th, 2007
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Lately I’ve been interested in improving meetings at Clear Ink. I listened to Death By Meeting by Patrick Lencioni, and really liked it. On Crunch Notes today Mike Arrington linked to a College Humor video that demonstrates how a business meeting would go if it were like blog comments. Of course, it’s NSFW.
Vicky’s Blogging
September 23rd, 2007
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Vicky, my wife, finally decided to start blogging. I had suggested it long ago as perfectly suited to her lifestyle as a mom of two little kids. She might have been worn down by me responding with, “that would be a great thing to blog about” whenever she told me a story about one of [...]
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
August 6th, 2007
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I’ve just finished reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, and I really enjoyed it. It is frequently amusing, although perhaps only to fellow atheists. It examines why people believe in God and argues against this belief. With me, he’s preaching to the choir, but it’s interesting to hear his take. His logic is careful [...]
