Gottfried, Leverage, kids shipped in beta, LEGO board games, Superbowl ad, Wiarton Willie
A few things:
RIP Gottfried Mayer, founder of Complexity Digest.
I watched Leverage episode 1. I laughed at the rendition of Lady Macbeth's "Unsex me now!" speech. The bit of Shakespeare in the middle of that episode made it that much better for me. I would have liked the show anyway without it.
I found this blog post amusing.
Excerpt:
"There's a question on StackOverflow entitled "What real life bad habits has programming given you?", which is quite hilarious for programmers. Answers include things like thinking 256 is a nice round number, wanting to use Ctrl-F on an actual book, or starting to count items at 0 and ending up with one less than everyone else.
"This may seem unrelated, but bear with me. Shortly after Ryan was first born, I decided that children, particularly babies, were badly designed.
[...list of ways in which babies are badly designed...]
"Despite these challenges, parents continue to love and nurture their children, so obviously parents are generally better designed than children. However, children turn into parents without having been "re-designed", so it occurs to me that the real problem is not with design, which means it must be implementation. Obviously babies are born before they're really ready - before all the bugs have been worked out, before things have been streamlined and optimized.
The real problem is that babies are shipped while still in early beta." -- Graeme Perrow, January 31, 2009.
I found Graeme's blog through the Waterloo-Wellington Blogger's Association Google Reader Feed that aggregates posts from all members' blogs.
LEGO will be releasing LEGO board games this summer. (via Legomancer)
This Superbowl commercial was worth watching, in my opinion. Not that I watched the Superbowl. I just read other people on the internet talking about this ad.
Wiarton Willie saw his shadow. According to the second page I linked to, "Willie is one of many famous albino groundhogs born on the Bruce Peninsula whose mystique is enhanced by his snowy whiteness, his lovely pink eyes and the fact that he was born precisely on the 45th parallel - midway point between the Equator and the North Pole."
RIP Gottfried Mayer, founder of Complexity Digest.
I watched Leverage episode 1. I laughed at the rendition of Lady Macbeth's "Unsex me now!" speech. The bit of Shakespeare in the middle of that episode made it that much better for me. I would have liked the show anyway without it.
I found this blog post amusing.
Excerpt:
"There's a question on StackOverflow entitled "What real life bad habits has programming given you?", which is quite hilarious for programmers. Answers include things like thinking 256 is a nice round number, wanting to use Ctrl-F on an actual book, or starting to count items at 0 and ending up with one less than everyone else.
"This may seem unrelated, but bear with me. Shortly after Ryan was first born, I decided that children, particularly babies, were badly designed.
[...list of ways in which babies are badly designed...]
"Despite these challenges, parents continue to love and nurture their children, so obviously parents are generally better designed than children. However, children turn into parents without having been "re-designed", so it occurs to me that the real problem is not with design, which means it must be implementation. Obviously babies are born before they're really ready - before all the bugs have been worked out, before things have been streamlined and optimized.
The real problem is that babies are shipped while still in early beta." -- Graeme Perrow, January 31, 2009.
I found Graeme's blog through the Waterloo-Wellington Blogger's Association Google Reader Feed that aggregates posts from all members' blogs.
LEGO will be releasing LEGO board games this summer. (via Legomancer)
This Superbowl commercial was worth watching, in my opinion. Not that I watched the Superbowl. I just read other people on the internet talking about this ad.
Wiarton Willie saw his shadow. According to the second page I linked to, "Willie is one of many famous albino groundhogs born on the Bruce Peninsula whose mystique is enhanced by his snowy whiteness, his lovely pink eyes and the fact that he was born precisely on the 45th parallel - midway point between the Equator and the North Pole."