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Job update.
As of this past Monday, I am now a full-time employee with Wolfram Alpha, LLC. Benefits start at the end of the month. Needless to say, I am thrilled. -
For the rock hounds...
This month marks the one hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the main fossil bed of the Burgess Shale - one of the richest and most important fossil beds... well, ever!
Read for yourself! -
Looking back.
This past Sunday would have been my seventh wedding anniversary ( Read more... ) -
Friends don't let friends play Alliance. (part 2)
File this post under: Things Geoff does when he has a day off, a copy of Photoshop, and a desire for some humor.
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George Tiller's murder and some thoughts about history.
Okay, this post is going to piss some people off. I'm well aware of this, and I'm even going to encourage it, to a certain extent. The things I'm going to be talking about are controversial, the positions I'm going to present are going to make people uncomfortable, and I'm going to make people on both sides of the issue think twice about their ( Read more... ) -
Wolfram|Alpha
As many of you know, I'm working for Wolfram Research now. I'm involved (although mostly around the edges) with their new product, Wolfram|Alpha. There's been a lot of hype about this, up to and including a live web broadcast from the actual launch of the website. It's been pretty chaotic, but a lot of fun for me ( Read more... ) -
Steam, The Last Remnant, and why my weekend plans are trashed.
So, there's a (fairly) new Square|Enix RPG out, called The Last Remnant. Xbox 360 release, and PC, with PS3 soon to follow. I had it recommended to me by bav101Since I have a new job (more on that later), I figured I'd treat myself and pick up a copy. While at the mall this week, I stopped by the Game Stop in the mall, but they didn't have any PC ( Read more... ) -
Media wtf.
Here is an article on Salon.com which describes a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles in the New York Times talking about how "some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from ( Read more... ) -
R.I.P.
Dave Arneson, co-creator of D&D, died of cancer on Thursday. Gary Gygax, the other co-creator, died last March ( Read more... ) -
Some food for coding thought...
Here is an interesting article to read. At first, you might scratch your head and think, "Gee, Geoff, what does that have to do with programming?" Well, it's pretty simple. The judge is upholding a ruling that says that calling something a "trade secret" does not mean you can keep the source code for a breathalyzer a secret from a defense team ( Read more... )