A link to the original post, just because I'm basically stealing this.

I've been linked to a couple of stories lately where "Christians" have done/said some incredibly stupid things. Both of these stories left me absolutely speechless. Well, the post I linked at the top said it well.

( Quoted LJ Post )

TOR has announced the replacement for Robert Jordan. This is a man hand-picked by his widow, a rising star of TOR. Or at least that's what seems to be said.

The press release is here.

I've never heard of the guy. One thing I do like, however, is that he's a friend of Howard Taylor, the author of one of my favorite webcomics. Howard says this ( Read more... )

As of the moment I step out the turnstile this evening, I will have been working at Lockheed Martin for 7 full years ( Read more... )

I found this interesting ( Read more... )

So, Greg Dean just made me lose The GameAnd now, I've made you lose ( Read more... )

So, Lockheed's current thing is "Embrace Diversity". Not a bad plan. They've been giving out these postcards on occasion (each one has been given to my cubemate and not me--maybe I'm diverse enough). These postcards have a bunch of text bubbles on them, expressing some sort of diversity 'issue'. There have been ones with racial biases on them ( ( Read more... )

So, this project I've been working on from time to time for the last couple years actually has recently been completed. The problem is, as it stands, there's no way to (officially) test it within the framework of the program for which it is designed. So, a driver program, which goes through the code, runs a bunch of test cases, and prints out the ( Read more... )

The other day, I got my last issue of Dragon, #359. I've been a subscriber now for about 6 years, getting a lot of good stuff out of them, and Dungeon for about 4 years with similar results. Wizards of the Coast has pulled the license ( Read more... )

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Ok. About two weeks ago, I had my midterm for my class. It was designed to last about 3 hours, we had 5 to do it ( Read more... )