Is Your Job Lynchian, or Is It More Kafkaesque? https://longreads.com/2018/04/26/is-your-job-lynchian-or-is-it-more-kafkaesque/
spaced repetition & Darwin’s golden rule – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2018/02/26/spaced-repetition-darwins-golden-rule/
A practitionerâs guide to reading programming languages papers | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/26/a-practitioners-guide-to-reading-programming-languages-papers/
Information flow reveals prediction limits in online social activity | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/26/information-flow-reveals-prediction-limits-in-online-social-activity/
J. Posadas: Flying saucers … and the socialist future of mankind (26 June 1968) https://www.marxists.org/archive/posadas/1968/06/flyingsaucers.html
Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games | These Heterogenous Tasks https://heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/standard-patterns-in-choice-based-games/
A downright moron
Henry Louis Mencken wrote an article on the Baltimore Sun, on 26 July, 1920, that amongst other things read:
As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
It seems we have “perfected” democrac … ⌘ Read more
KLF Welcome to the Dark Ages review – what time is chaos? | Music | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/aug/26/the-return-of-the-klf-what-time-is-chaos
Conversation Deliberately Skirts The Border Of Incomprehensibility | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/26/conversation-deliberately-skirts-the-border-of-incomprehensibility/
The Occult Roots of Modernism | The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/26/the-occult-roots-of-modernism
kas 26 … nristen 47
durcheinandr 26 … freemor 104
durcheinandr 26 … tux0r 65
Saturday
Respect others, seek peace, do not be irascible. Give, help, construct; never the opposite. Turn lemons into lemonade. Hard things to do, most of the time, even more so all the time. We are so recalcitrant by nature!
Yet, our existence would be idyllic if we could manage to, at least, try to do all of the above often. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft and global cybercrime
From The Official Microsoft Blog:
On June 19, Microsoft filed for an ex parte temporary restraining order (TRO) from the U.S. District Court for Nevada against No-IP. On June 26, the court granted our request and made Microsoft the DNS authority for the company’s 23 free No-IP domains, allowing us to identify and route a … ⌘ Read more
NixOS sprint in Slovenia
A sprint focused on NixOS and Kotti will be held 22-26\
July 2013 in Lokve, Slovenia. It is organised by Termitnjak and
sponsored
by LogicBlox. ⌘ Read more
Spelling bee
As a foreigner, trying to go over a Spelling Bee word list with my kid is nothing less than a challenge. For the both of us. First, there are the words I have never seeing; those I can’t pronounce. Second, there are the words I will mispronounce. And third, there are the ones I don’t know what they mean.
If you add to that the fact that the kid is learning them, hence bound to make many mistakes… well, yes, a challenge, to put it mildly. It gives me a headache. I will be glad when is over. 26 Oct … ⌘ Read more
Stephen Fry on Steve Jobs
Stephen Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He is also an awesome human being.
As always there are those who reveal their asininity (as they did throughout his career) with ascriptions like “salesman”, “showman” or the giveaway blunder “triumph of style over substance”. The use of that las … ⌘ Read more
Mi viejo
A steady, yet gentle, rain was falling over Miami on the night of 24th November 2010. Some say rain are tears from the sky. I was crying as well. On 24th November my father died.
Those who have lost an infinitely dear one will understand how I feel. Not only did I lose the best father a son could have, I lost a lifetime friend, a restless protector, a confidant. The many memories that I have of him continue to br … ⌘ Read more
Paradox of the Active User
The “paradox of the active user” is a concept introduced by John M. Carroll and Mary Beth Rosson (then at IBM, now at Penn State) to explain a common observation in several user studies done at the IBM User Interface Institute in the early 1980s (later confirmed by many other studies, including my own): Users never read manuals … ⌘ Read more
The wheels of justice
I thought twice before coming here and write two or three sentences. But sometimes two or three sentences is all you have. I had to do it: Apple Inc., you rock!
If you want to be a “journalist”, act as one. As Powazek wrote in a tweet, “Real journalists don’t buy stolen property.” ⌘ Read more
Special, just like you
At first I thought I was special, when I received my first offering of marriage, or the bank transfer to help the widow of some foreign fallen dignitary. Then they kept going, and I knew I was “special”, just like everyone else.
Read one of today’s emails and smile:
I am 26 years old, just started work with Central bank of Nigeria, as a scientist and why i was diong system maintance . I came across your file which was marked X and your released disk painted RED, I took t … ⌘ Read more
More changes coming
For the first time I am working on creating a complete theme here. The last time I had a decent one was back when WordPress 1.5 was around, for which themes weren’t implemented as they are now.
No much have been happening in life. I don’t have much to tell right now, other that those minor breadcrumbs of life. Actually, I have a few things I want to write, if anything to keep record online of what happened. Those few things involve GoDaddy and Media Temple. But it will be a future top … ⌘ Read more
It happened again
Last Friday family got together in our house and some photos were taken. Well, it happened again, just this time there was no other family around, but the three of us. We were making time to go over the airport to pick Khanh (brother-in-law) and girlfriend up, so I snapped a few photos, from which I have choosen five. It is mainly about KM, but Kim is in one of them, for the first time!
Something bad about the night … ⌘ Read more
Friday night photos
As I previously mentioned, last night some family members got together in our home to eat and drink. Oh, and to say good bye to some other family that was visiting from California. As it is normal when family gets together, everything started quite early –5:30PM– and finished around 9:30PM. That simply means that food and beer was no longer available at that time ;-) .
Normally I am the one taking the photos around, taking care of this kids and later on posting things here. Last night … ⌘ Read more
First working week; about to start
The 2004 first working week (at least for me) is about to start. I know it is going to be difficult after 4 and a half days off, but hey, “a man has to do what a man has to do…”. I hope we (TRC staff) will know early this week who was the choosen one for the position we interviewed people for.
Went to sleep early today (around 2:00 AM). I was playing with [AnyDVD](ht … ⌘ Read more
Good bye 2003!
Twenty one days is a long time without talking to you. Yes, you, the one reading here at this very moment. Even though I had my reasons I am afraid they were way too lame to be used, so I am not bailing out. A lot has happened since the last post, let’s recount.
At work we had had the most controversial and lenghty hiring process ever. It has been going throughout the whole month, more or less, and still extends to the new year. Moods changed, feelings were hurt. In all and all, I think it will en … ⌘ Read more
Happy Thanksgiving!
A few years ago, 383 more or less to be more precise, a bunch of british came to the now known America, running away, so to speak, from the beliefs of the Church of England, which they weren’t that happy with. The pilgrims settled on a piece of land that is now called the State of Massachusetts.
During their first winter everything was a mess: they had no food (they got there too late and winter made things more difficult), and without it, half of their settled colony died from diseases. … ⌘ Read more
Traveling, my unfulfilled hobby
Today I came across Vagabonding and I have to admit I felt jealous, in a good way. You see, traveling around the world has always been my unfulfilled dream and, even thought I have traveled some, I still hope one day (sooner rather than later) that dream will come true.
[Mike Pugh](http://www.vagabonding.com/about/00001 … ⌘ Read more