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Obama Video
It might just be me, but after watching Obama's pre-announcement video I got kind of annoyed. He has this bit (and not just in the video, but as a wider theme) where he says that it's not so much the issues that matter but he wants "A new kind of politics" where people all just get along or whatever. That's all well and good, but has it really ( Read more... ) -
Kennedy Center Award Winners
So I'm sitting at home, and things are relatively boring in Greenville and we're watching this Kennedy Center awards thing on TV, and I've never heard about it before, but I guess they acknowledge the "culturally" significant every year. This year it's Dolly Parton, Smokey Robinson, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Spielberg, and Zubin Mehta (I didn't know ( Read more... ) -
java puzzler of the day
You have a function:
public static Iterator> partition(final Iterator iterator, final int partitionSize);
It takes the intial iterator and partitions it into partitionSize chunks returning an Iterator or Iterators. Pretty good so far.
But really I want to partition an Iterable into Iterable>. Figure out how to do this given the other function ( Read more... ) -
Will Be in Seattle for NYE
Attention Seattle:
In case you were not already aware, I will be comming to town for New Years. I will be staying at the The Ace Hotel, and attending the NYE party at The McLeod Residence. I'm sure other activities will be planned as well.
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Bond, James Bond
Unlike seemingly everyone else, I did not particularly like the new James Bond movie. The stupid poker scenes annoyed the hell out of me, and kind of turned me off for the rest of the movie.
Also, it was too long.
