July 2011
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Guido van Rossum, 9 March 2011
This text is my personal transcription of a talk that Guido gave in Atlanta before PyCon. I tried very hard to make it exact, but I’m sure elisions and inaccuracies crept in, as I was typing very fast for a very long time :)
What’s wrong with Perl?
This was a long time ago. Perl in 1988 had only one hundred-screen long manpage, and its design offended my sensibilities. In 1988 and...
Javascript: Consoles and First-class Functions
I’ve been writing a lot of Javascript lately. It’s a lot more fun when you treat it as a real programming language (which it is) and not that horrible thing that’s shoved inside all the browsers. It’s also a lot more fun when you decide that nothing but the most recent versions of Firefox and Chrome exist, which leads me to my first topic.
Javascript Shells
Both the...
December 2010
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Tomato Caviar What?
I can’t even begin to make sense of this one. Worst thing in a while to come out of the Food Terrordome that is my cookbook collection.
This exemplifies the 1950s recipe. It’s a “salad” where the vegetables are only there to give structural support to the creams and dairy products. It’s overwrought. It’s a bizarre hodge-podge of ingredients, half of which are...
September 2010
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Inscription on back of photograph of USS...
Saturday Oct 27th 1984 We left Hawaii at 10:00 P.M. {???}
Friday Oct 26th We all met at The Pearl Harbor {Officers Club} {???} went To The US [sic] Goldsborough for a {gourmet dinner} guests of Captain Fitz & his Wife — Then were given tour of The ship by Capt. Fitz, Took Polaroid Pictures of every {partner} at The Dinner Table —
Thurs Oct 25th We all were guests of Admiral...
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Vintage Bacon Overkill
Both from The Favorite Recipes of Home Economics Teachers Cookbook, 1970.
Bacon-Macaroni Casserole
2C elbow macaroni
1# bacon
1/2C chopped onion
3/4C grated sharp cheese
1 can tomato soup
1C milk
Cook macaroni; drain. Reserve 4 slices bacon; cut remainder into 1/2” strips. Brown cut bacon in skillet; push to one side. Cook onion in bacon drippings until soft. Mix crisp bacon,...
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Tiny Music Reviews 1
A couple weeks ago I ended up ransacking the $1 bin at Criminal Records, picking up everything that looked like a sampler or had really good graphic design on the jacket. This was brought on by discovering that a sampler I picked up over a year ago (and forgot about) was constructed from purest awesomtanium.
In case you’d like a copy of that one yourself, it was Parasol Records’s...
August 2010
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July 2010
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May 2010
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Went thrifting today.
Good book haul:
Better Homes & Gardens Meals with a Foreign Flair, 1963 — Standard, but perhaps notable for the chapter header “Honorable Chinese dinner”
BH&G Good Food On A Budget, 1971 — Budget cooking from some alternate reality where Mock Lasagne uses pork sausage (cheap?) but elbow macaroni instead of lasagne noodles (apparently expensive?). Other...
“Everything about MARC after RECON is a decades-long object lesson in how not to...”
– Me, today, in an email to another Perl programmer
April 2010
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I have fucked-up dreams.
I was backstage at a huge theatre, hiding on the topmost level of scaffolding, watching as the two stars of the show (whom I didn’t know) stood at the very fore of a lower level of scaffolding. I was waiting for them to die by falling off, but they never did.
I was walking home from school through countryside I’d never seen before. There was a broken flagstone path down a gentle hill...
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HOT APPLE NEWS!!!!!
NEW PRODUCTS
According to informed sources, Apple will be releasing a new version of the Apple II in early 1983. Reputed changed include a full 64Kb as standard memory, a much lower chip count, and provision for a low-cost 80-column display board. The new machine, tentatively dubbed the IIE, should retail for several hundred dollars less than the Apple II Plus. At some time in the near future,...
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March 2010
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The demo reel for my Spoken Word Cookbooks...
At TMBG show
If a bomb went off in here, it would take years for the Atlanta IT sector to recover.
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February 2010
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“Wuthering Heights” has been recorded by a number of other artists,...”
– Wikipedia
I don’t even like the song a lot, but I wish I had all these covers of it in a playlist, because I do love the sort of incongruity that borders on physical pain.
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