Contra dancing
I went contra dancing with some friends last Friday. I’ve done English country dancing before, but never contra. It’s quite a workout, but really fun. Our friends were kind enough to post this video from the event:
Category Archives: General Interest
Building arrays of similar objects in Ruby
I often find myself having to build arrays of similar objects in my tests. For example: def create_user :some_user end users = [create_user, create_user, create_user] It seems wasteful to repeat the same method call three times. One solution is to use the #times method to append to an array, like … Continue reading
Is Communism really dead?
I found Misreading the Tea Leaves by J.R. Nyquist to be pretty thought-provoking. Maybe you will too.
Bill Gates wants to annoy the whole world with Windows
Yes, it’s true. Bill Gates wants to annoy the whole world with Windows.
Wasting time
“Imagine for a moment that someone has established for you a very unusual bank account. Each morning he has agreed to deposit $86,400. At then at the end of each day whatever you have not spent will be forfeited. Would you not be diligent to see to it that every … Continue reading
And you thought homeschooling was tough?
These people need to seriously rethink their approach to preschool. Why not just teach the kid at home for a year instead of freezing your tail off in line?
Trouble purchasing iPod Touch January update
I was initially quite irritated with Apple for choosing to charge existing iPod Touch users like myself a $20 bill to get a hold of their January update. I’m still a bit ticked since it seems quite unfair to punish the early adopters like this, but by last Tuesday I … Continue reading
Locking a nation into permanent childhood
America’s education system is majorly messed up. The disturbing thing is the intentionality with which it’s being destroyed, coupled with the ignorance of most parents to what’s really going on: … American schooling was taken over, in the late 19th century, by statists enamored of the Prussian compulsion model, aiming … Continue reading
Fixed bid vs. time and materials
“It’s unwise to pay too much… but it’s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money… that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to … Continue reading
Vacate room when CFL bulb breaks
Anyone else think we’re shooting ourselves in the foot on this one? If the choice is between greater power consumption and mercury poisoning, I think I’ll opt for greater consumption, thanks. The more government tries to solve these problems for us, the worse things get. Here’s a novel idea: why … Continue reading