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Polling my friendslist; A question about terminology.
What do you think of as the difference in meaning between "Software Engineer", "Programmer", and "Coder"? I'm interested in differences in connotation as well as denotation. If you characterize yourself as one of these, which one or ones do you use to describe yourself? -
Looking for Capitol One Miles
A friend wants to make a plane trip using miles from her Capitol One credit card. She doesn't have quite enough miles for the trip. Unfortunately, unlike airline-specific miles, Capitol One doesn't let you buy extra miles, or pay with a combination of miles and cash. However, they do allow you to transfer miles from one person to another. So if ( Read more... ) -
A revealing metaphor.
So there's some speed at which you can run for a long time. You can run faster than that for a short period, but you can't keep it up; it's not sustainable. Running faster than that is called a "sprint". Sprinting doesn't refer to a particular way of running, or a particular speed; what it means is exactly keeping a pace that is not sustainable for ( Read more... ) -
Lost all my contacts
So it turns out that when I told my Android "Sync contacts with my google account", this meant "sync existing google contacts on to my phone", but not "Sync contacts I enter onto my phone with my google account". So when my phone crashed, and managed to delete the contacts, I have lost all of them. If you'd like me to have your phone number, assume ( Read more... ) -
Date grab: summer party Saturday, August 25.
On Saturday, August 25, we will be having our annual* summer party. Swimming! Games! Barbecuing! But most important, just hanging around sand socializing with good friends (that's you ( Read more... ) -
May is Mental Health Awareness Month...
and my friend siderea has written a very insightful post on the subject. Signal boosting. -
Cross-training works.
I used to do DDR 4-6 times a week. I've only played 2 or 3 times in the past year, and that was not on my home machine, so I couldn't track my progress. I played a bunch today, and despite being out of practice, set new records on 4 songs ( Read more... ) -
Anyone want to go to a BSO concert tomorrow (Wednesday)?
I have an extra ticket to the BSO rehearsal tomorrow (Wednesday) night. Music by Kodaly, Dvorak, Mendelssohn. Anyone interested in joining me?
No charge, since the ticket will just go to waste otherwise. -
Any Thursday Next fans want a book?
I went to the last-day-everything-90%-off sale at Borders, and got an extra hardback copy of Thursday Next; First Among Sequels for next to nothing. Anyone want one?
If you've never read the Thursday Next series, I highly recommend them, but you should start at the beginning, with The Eyre Affair -
Self-identifying spam.
I got a typical piece of spam today, telling me to buy some penny stock. The two unusual things about this spam are that it got past the gmail spam filters, and that the subject line, rather than being something like "Stock XYZ is going to go up this week!" was something like "SPAM Stock XYZ is going to go up this week ( Read more... )