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That is all.

Sometime try a google image search for each of the following items individually

1. marlboro
2. budweiser
3. Campbell's soup
4. Cracker Jacks

Is it just me, or do all of these have similar color scheme's and design styles? Was there a "red white and blue" (or perhaps just "red and white") era of consumer product packaging design in the US?

What else looks like

Several times I have been baffled when immigrants to this country ask me "So what is 'American food ( Read more... )

So after working on a simulation platform for my robots in Java for some time, and having done large projects in C++, I am slowly coming to the conclusion that "Java is not significantly easier than C++"

Some caveats :

1. I am comparing templatized C++ with STL and Boost to Java with Generics. Day to day use of either language changes radically if ( Read more... )

Something that took me a while to notice here : When airplanes fly overhead, they sound different from the airplanes I'm used to ( Read more... )

Gotta get new tires.

I popped one last night.

Car drives fine on rims for a short distance though ;)

Okay, I totally need some sort of tutorial on eclipse.

Like "How does one deal with packages and version control" or, even better "Whats the deal with packages?"

edit: and "workspaces" What are workspaces? (I probably get the general overview, but I'm confused enough where repeating that might help as well)

Reposting this because it is cool

http://www.kiva.org/

A website that lets first-world citizens make microloans to third-world entrepreneurs. I am guessing the point is not to make a profit, but to use that $25 that buys jack shit in our world to help someone else get a start.

Apparently Japan isn't producing enough engineers anymore ( Read more... )