So I'm finally taking a CS class after years of working in IT. Basically, this means I'm learning some programming. The professor is using Python and the text by Zelle. It's fun, but I keep finding myself saying: "I can brute-force it this way, but there *has* to be a better, sexier way to do 'this.' (Whatever 'this' is at the time ( Read more... )

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"The frogs gained popularity as a low-cost pregnancy test in the 1940s and 1950s. Doctors would inject a frog with a woman's urine, and if she was pregnant, the frog would ovulate and produce eggs in 8 to 10 hours."

from here: http://www.msnbc.msn.

..that not everyone on LJ is also on Facebook, despite how often it seems that way.

For neglecting to post this in a timely manner, I apologize (it was only yesterday, tho)

I am MARRIED!!!

Wow, my very own physicist to have and to hold and with whom to geek out.

Life is good.

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=1174

http://www.videosift.com/video/Zombies-On-Your-Lawn

This is primarily a signal boost for the mothers on my flist who are interested in the discussion. I'm sure not everyone will agree with it and I have no opinion as such, but it seemed an interesting entry into the debate.http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090128/sc_livescience/boyswithunpopularnamesmorelikelytobreaklaw

http://www.aegisub.net/2008/12/if-programming-languages-were-religions.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28073316/