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Defending UNIX and the OOM Killer
I found this via reddit and wrote an entirely too-long response. I figured I'd put my response here, mostly so I can find it again later, but maybe someone will find it interesting. I doubt it. ;-) Obviously you must read the original rant first for this to make any sense.
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This rental car goes to eleven
I've landed a sweet job with Intel's Larrabee team. So, I'm moving to Portland OR! I'm pretty excited about this job; it should be much more interesting than my current one, with a better career path and a lot of smart people to learn from ( Read more... ) -
Please pray for my mother
My mother is fighting cancer. Her doctors are working towards their treatment of last resort, a bone marrow transplant from one of her siblings. Mortality rates for this procedure are very high. To shrink her tumors and make the transplant feasible she'll be given another round of chemotherapy, but this will put her remaining kidney function at ( Read more... ) -
Meet the Press 8/24/08
When asked on Meet the Press yesterday how she would answer the question "When does life begin?" (in the context of abortion), Nancy Pelosi said the following:
I would say that as an ardent, practicing Catholic, this is an issue that I have studied for a long time. And what I know is, over the centuries, the doctors of the church have not been ( Read more... ) -
gibigiblets per second
My manager bought copies of Unreal Anthology for all of his underlings as a Christmas present, and a lot of other people obtained their own copies. So, last Friday we set up a massive Unreal Tournament LAN deathmatch & CTF session after hours. The title of this entry should help you quantify my l33t skillz, at least when compared to my coworkers. ( Read more... ) -
Link whore
I saw this picture by means of reddit just now, under the title Why you shouldn't make your glass fronted building shaped like a parabolic mirror, and thought it was sufficiently amusing to share ( Read more... ) -
Battlestar Gallia County
I've silently suspected that Battlestar Galactica was pretty cool for a while now, especially given the rave reviews from nearly everyone I know. So, I used a free Blockbuster Total Access trial to watch seasons one and two over the last month ( Read more... ) -
not much longer
So I left that-printer-company and moved up to Philly a few weeks ago. My new employer is a highly amusing conversation starter, for those of you who haven't heard about it. Don't worry, I haven't accidentally shot anybody at work in the face yet ( Read more... ) -
Re: Fwd: FWD: Re: (no subject)
I just discovered that the term "toaster boy" is defined in the Urban Dictionary. It's not a particularly flattering definition, involving popping girls in and out of ones pants. However, I'm pretty sure Tina was the first person to give me this nickname, so I'm confident it's origins are innocent and only amusing antithetically ( Read more... ) -
Belated "July Fool's Day"
Not sure if this link will work, but Terry, this Foxtrot looks like it was made just for you:
Foxtrot 7/2/2006
