I've been thinking a lot recently. ( very long thoughts )

On my way by the Crystal Ballroom last night, I noted their sign said "29 Silversun Pickups". I immediately thought "why do I never know about these things in advance?". Then I thought "well, today's the 28th. They might not be sold out ( Read more... )

My life's turning upside down now, probably for the better.

A random point of conversation with Miranda yesterday reminded me of something I kind of knew already... While facebook's easy, it's not a good way of actually communicating. Maybe I need to do more of the latter.

So maybe I'll post here more.

There is no run-time polymorphism in the type system in Haskell. Type inference nails everything down at compile-time. Hence:

-- This doesn't compile because there's no way for the
-- compiler to infer the concrete return type from read.
reparse :: String -> String
reparse = show . read
Because of the type inference system, this turns out to be ( Read more... )

Yeah, it's been snowing for a while. Still, I just realized that if I'm heading south for Christmas, I need to be able to actually do so.

( The rest of the story. Illustrated! )

Ok, sometime on the morning of 20, November, I'm heading off to Utah. An auspicious date, indeed! (There might be some date-appropriate activities in Utah.) I'll be coming back on Monday, the 24th. I would absolutely love for someone to come with me. It's a long drive alone ( Read more... )

Ruby is such an awesome programming language.

Totally.

Check this out:

class << nil
def nil?
return false
end
end
I don't know if I've ever seen a cleaner example of the value of open classes.

I direct you to this: http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/09/metallica-4chan.html

That might be the most amazing thing 4chan has ever done.

So, I'd been thinking about getting a tattoo for a while. For many years, it was a matter of vague desire, with no idea at all ( Read more... )

Taking pictures of your own arm is hard.

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