I've been banging my head against ObjC and the iPhone SDK trying to chase down a memory leak exposed by Leaks. The big hint that helped me find the answer was that the last calls in the stack trace were:

WKSetCurrentGraphicsContext
_ZL20CurrentThreadContextv

And both were associated with the WebCore library. Calls higher in the stack trace ( Read more... )

I am amazed at how certain things lodge in my head and will not let go. If I see or hear a comment or remark and think it is wrong, stupid, or incomplete I have an almost irresistible urge to correct or argue with it. Naturally, this is extremely abrasive. I have tried to cut away at the cynical side of myself but still find it ridiculously hard ( Read more... )

Basic common sense argues that the smarter you are, the more money you make. A semi-random travel through the ether found a few sites claiming that it is not so.

First stop: Overcoming Bias talks about College Prestige Lies. Studies done between students of prestigious and less prestigious schools show that it matters. The big interest in this ( Read more... )

Recently I have been helping out with shows at Tyler Vineyard. The past two months have had a show every weekend, which is kind of fun, kind of overload. The bands are mostly local death-metal and hardcore, which is kind of fun, kind of overload. Some of the kids in Tyler are impressive. Others, not so much. The headliners tend to be other ( Read more... )

I bought up roughly 3000 Magic: The Gathering cards from a friend and am now going through the rather laborious task of sorting and recording all of them. I have 994 done as of this writing ( Read more... )

Some time ago I was poking about the internet and stumbled across a post by someone who is apparently sixteen complaining that he1 was hurt when his girlfriend broke up with him ( Read more... )

I am a project starter. I start projects. I cannot remember the last time I finished a project.

A short list of "current" projects:

• Blogging software that is self-hosted so I can get away from Livejournal
• Board game emulators in Java
• Role-playing game in Java
• AI analysis software in Java
• At least three short stories

It is hard to admit certain things when they sound like a chink in your worldview's armor. Something like the fact that genocide occurs in the Bible. There are interesting responses to these passages1 in both theist and anti-theist circles and I am not going down the list of which I like and which I disagree with. The point is that there are ( Read more... )

Tamar and I just finished reading Chuck Palahniuk's novel Survivor. This post contains no major spoilers but does assume you have read the book and focuses on vague references to the ending ( Read more... )

Heresy is an introduced change to some system of belief, especially a religion, that conflicts with the previously established canon of that belief. (Wikipedia)

Heresy is one of the heavier labels that can be leveled against a belief. To claim something as heresy is to strictly define it as Other. Something that is heretical is only masquerading ( Read more... )