Buy Arnold Body Building Products! Part of the joys of staying up all night is that I don't have to fight with my wife over what movies to watch. My latest guilty pleasure was the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron, starring Arnold … [Read more]
Transcript of Marco Barringer’s UCW “Hello World” Movie
I think one of the things that made Ruby on Rails so popular was the screencasts where you could write a blog site in 20 minutes, integrate with Flickr in 5 minutes, or setup database migrations in 20 minutes. It's hard to overstate how mindblowing … [Read more]
Why Google Isn’t In It To Win
You are where you live. That's the message that Prizm, a market research tool from the company Claritas says. In the United States, groups of similar people tend to live near each other, and the size of these groups roughly corresponds to ZIP code … [Read more]
Two recommended blogs
There are two blogs I've recently begun reading (and they've recently begun writing). Most of the time I read a new blog, I found it because one of the posts was on Hacker News. If I like the post, I'll look at the recent and archive posts on that … [Read more]
Mourning A Friend
I mostly keep my personal life out of this blog, but today was a sad day for me because a friend of mine passed away. While I had never met him personally, I have followed him and listened to him for my entire adult life. He's been with me when I was … [Read more]
Taking Requests for Book Reviews
One of the first things I did when I started the blog last year was to write reviews of the books I read. Since I had a 45 minute train ride each way to and from work, I cranked through a lot of books, and when I tried to write reviews to keep up … [Read more]
Sleeping In Your Car – Polyphasic Sleep Tricks
Last year, I tried a drastic lifestyle experiment: polyphasic sleep. It was a successful proof of concept, but it was a little too drastic for the time. A couple months ago, I announced I was thinking about giving it another shot. Well, I'm giving it … [Read more]
Smart Kids + OLPC = Better World
The state of Illinois has a publicly funded boarding high school for exceptional students called the Illinois Math and Science Academy. I'm the kind of person that would have benefited greatly from a special advanced curriculum and the resources … [Read more]
Best Quote About Lisp (That’s No Longer Valid)
As part of my year's learning goals, I've started reading Peter Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming. I've gotten through the first few chapters (introductions to Lisp and a small sample program), and so far it's a great book. … [Read more]
Thanks Again, McCarthy
I'm up at night watching Ice Age 2: The Meltdown and in the special features, there are set of fake 50s style documentaries on the different animals in the movie. The first one is called: Sloths: Natures Loveable Lisper Thanks to a wonderful … [Read more]