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Tae Kwon Do and Twitter
Tae Kwon Do
Yeah I'm only a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and a bit of stick fighting, but there are so many principles firmly placed in my mind, I would really like to see where I could take teaching them. The following methodologies/phiklosphies stand out to me now.
1. Hard on Soft; Soft on Hard.
2. Three Levels Of Understanding:- Basic Technique (White ( Read more... )
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Star Wars Observations
Had a conversation about the Death Star with Odin today; We concluded that all the rebels really had to do is hide on the side of the Deathstar without the big Mega Laser and they would have been just fine. Those Rebels were such drama queens.
Heard this conversation today while the kids were watching Jedi in the car: Lando Calrissian: We gotta give ( Read more... ) -
post froom hujraad: Fifth Edition Scheisse!!!
I was annoyed that WOTC is releasing a5th edition D and D so I wrote this post on my HiBRiD blog, though it is more appopro here:
Five E
Interestingly timed with my working on the GenCon scenario, a few days ago, Wizards of the Coast made the announcement that they are going to be creating a fifth edition game, though their working title is Dungeons ( Read more... ) -
Facebook Freedom
Well, I am finally weaning my ass off facebook. There is too much life I dont want to miss. Too much code to write. To many hugs and kisses from my kids. Too much to read to get up to speed so I can start saving more people in the ICU. Too much HiBRiD to get laid out.. I want to drink coffee with people. play cards with people. Laugh with people.Be ( Read more... ) -
Mobility = Cowardice and Laziness
Wow...Facebook has taken over the world. But I fucking hate it. It is shit. But it would seem it is necessary...
Facebook is good for getting to know people and keep tabs on those you wish you had time to spend time with in real life but are separated by more than a two hour drive.
Facebook is bad for anything else. It is bad for cowards who don't ( Read more... ) -
Empty Weekend!
Well, had nothing to do this weekend ( Read more... ) -
Lovin' Ruby Entry 4: Flexiblity
One thing that makes Ruby pretty sweet is its ability to step beyond simple scripting. If you wanna write a desktop app for either GUI or CLI, Ruby will work. The hard core lower level programmers can belittle us Rubyists and say it is just for scripting, but I don't think so. Bash is great for scripting! But Ruby allows me to do so much more.
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Lovin' Ruby Entry 3: Few (if any )Required Curly Braces
Another little syntax thing I REALLY like about Ruby: There are very few curly braces required (as of yet) except for mixins, arrays, or bindings with other languages/libraries. Sure you can use them for one line blocks but do...end works just fine for me and keeps the code consistent.....and EASY To READ ( Read more... ) -
Lovin' Ruby Entry 2: Whitespace
Some of the things I like about Ruby are little syntax things ( Read more... ) -
Lovin' Ruby Entry1: No Memory Management
The only lovin' related to this post is my love of Ruby ( Read more... )