I'm sure everyone's already seen it on Facebook, but I have a new blog for explain how software works and concepts in a relatively deep manner while remaining accessible to people without a tech background ( Read more... )

     While I was thinking   about haiku's a thought just   popped into my head.  What if someone wrote   a series of haiku's that   all fit together. Each haiku could be   interpreted as just a   single syllable.  This would form what I   would like to refer to as   a meta-haiku.  I wonder how hard   such a creation would be   for someone to write ( Read more... )

So LJ seems to have lost my friends page posts from before this month. Thought it was a temp thing but 3 days later it's still only showing posts from this month.

Anyone else having this problem?

I've been thinking about how programming is similar to other disciplines lately and my most recent one is that I think programming languages share a fair amount of similarity with natural languages. Sure there's the practical component of them being created for a purpose (and being created at all I guess is a difference, unless you count Esperanto ( Read more... )

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We saw some protesters outside the Church of Scientology wearing Guy Fawkes masks on our way to Target, and one of had a sign that just said "LOL". On our way back, they were bursting into song and dance with You Are A Pirate and it was pretty awesome.  I joined in for half a verse as we were walking by and one of them said "Hey! He knows the song

Nibbler plays with shoelace!

Well, I decided it was about time for one, so took the week off. Got a cat on Monday from the Animal Humane Society, you can see pictures here.  He's really cute and sweet.  We named him Nibbler because he likes to nibble when he's happy :)

He likes to watch the toilet flush apparently, because he runs into the bathroom and peeks inside every time ( Read more... )

In response to Carly's post about the word game where you take 2 words and try to convert one into the other by switching one letter at a time where each iteration is a real word. Her example:

Example:

MOON --> WOLF
GOON
GOOF
GOLF
WOLF

I made a program that'll ask you for 2 words (separate them with a space) and tell you the minimum number of steps it ( Read more... )