I walked down the ten blocks to the National Mall and ate my lunch on a park bench between the Washington Monument and the Capitol building. Definitely have to do this again. It was much better than sitting at my desk surfing the internet. Wheee!

Happy birthday, jwildstr!

May all your programs compile and all your defects be "features".

So, currently, right outside my window is a Coke truck. It tried to exit the parking lot, and bottomed out. It's stuck on the exit ramp. Apparently, it's been there for an hour. There's a another big truck chained to it trying to pull it free. It's not having much success so far. This might take a while ( Read more... )

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

Because the element of the task is short-cutting, it does not run the second test ( Read more... )

Voted this morning ( Read more... )

I find this rumor much more amusing than I probably should. I don't believe it for a second, but if it turns out to be true, well, you heard it here first.

For non-Texans, Rick Perry was Bush's lieutenant governor who succeeded him as govenor of Texas.

Hmmm...

One of the guys behind Brunching Shuttlecock humor site now appears to be writing for Wired.

Weird, I always thought Lore Sjöberg was a fake name.

Happy new year one and all!

I had good gift karma this year.

I gave my father Diaspora: Homelands in Exile (2 Volume Set) which he really loved ( Read more... )

Wow, finally been at a company long enough, and one that's had enough customers and revenue, for it to finally go public.

My company's just filed S-1.
Motive plans another IPO tryNow the fun begins ( Read more... )