OK, look.  I love logic.  I basically got a degree in it, and I was raised in a pro-intellectual household by a man whose bread and butter (and therefore mine) came from his skill at arguing - and I'm good at it; I won't even pretend to be modest there.

I know a LOT of people who also love logic, but who don't have my training in it - tech ( Read more... )

For more than a decade, I've been asked regularly for tech-job advice, as someone who started young and worked their way up self-taught from basement mechanic to manager, fighting the women-in-tech battle the whole way.

Today I tried writing down my situation the way I would if I were coming to myself for advice the way so many others have ( Read more... )

This will give you a headache, but it’s a headache worth getting I think:

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…The scariest opinion I have heard about this well-done little video is “I think that’s probably accurate, but I don’t want to watch it because I’d rather put off having to think about that world for as long as I can”.

That’s a pretty terrifying summation of the modern view ( Read more... )

Oo, I think I've solved a big one:  The age-old problem (to me) of needing three very specific things from my personal organization software* and process/system, and having them be VERY hard to get in ways that don't interfere with or ruin each other.

(*not that personal org should or must be done with software, but it's inevitable that at ( Read more... )

These layer-lapse videos are pretty impressive!  I'm so glad that Boston got one early, because…



…HOLY CRAP I live in a beautiful place now!  ::so proud::

Now, go find something beautiful in your own town to admire - and leave me a link to it if you can!

Originally published at *Transcendental *Logic. You can comment here or there.

We make a lot of fuss about when a commenter or blogger is violating some spoken or unspoken rule of conduct, but MAN do we let companies off the hook for some obvious things that are just terribly rude and inconsiderate!  Here are some of the worst, IMO:

• If you take an order / allow sign up online, you must allow canceling an order or ( Read more... )

When I started training Iron Palm, my sifu gave me a stout canvas bag, sewn permanently shut, stamped with Chinese characters in faded blue on one corner.  It was full of…mung beans.


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Bruce Schneier in the Guardian:

"The NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. We engineers built the internet - and now we have to fix it. Government and industry have betrayed the internet, and us. This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the ( Read more... )

So, I think it's time for an overhaul here.

I created this site in something like 2006 or '7, mostly to provide a place for the polyphasic information I was amassing, but because I'm a compulsive writer anyway, I knew it would wind up serving as a spot for general bloggage, content, and Writing.

And so it has, resulting in exactly the ( Read more... )

Luke McKinney's new article - a follow-up to his infamous piece on "straight white male" being sexuality's lowest difficulty setting (you may remember John Scalzi's still-famous article expanding that idea) - on 5 Gamer Comments That Give Straight White Guys a Bad Name had me screaming and clapping while simultaneously laughing coffee out my nose ( Read more... )