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Home design principles
When designing a home or an apartment building, consider the ambience. Avoid building bedrooms that face a parking lot or a street. I often see kitchens and or living rooms facing the backyard, while bedrooms are looking out to the street or a driveway. Well, woopty fuckin-doo, you have a nice view while doing the dishes. How about waking up at 6: ( Read more... ) -
MVC in one file
because why not -
My QA World
http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-jing-taking-your-first-capture.html - taking video captures of your bug repros. This tool allows to to take screenshots and videos of your screen activity; you can also narrate your videos and there are several sharing options. I am not sure yet, whether there is a TFS or Outlook integration, but it is worth ( Read more... ) -
Счастье
Счастье настолько непредсказуемо. Иногда его нет вовсе. Иногда его столько, что прям не знаешь что с ним делать. В таких случаях, оно обычно чувствует себя недооцененным, обижается и уползает прочь оставив тебя разбитым, как после жёсткого трипа на жёстких наркотиках. А что? Химия-то одна и та же - истощение дофамина. Иногда оно, счастье, вроде тут ( Read more... ) -
Permission to Rage
As a result of years of persistent self-improvement endeavors, I find in myself abilities to soothe, relieve, and smooth-ride just about any situation. But what about persistent failures? Well, I cannot call them failures, since I have not given up. I am, perhaps, taking wrong approaches and making bad decisions during my attempts. But the fact is ( Read more... ) -
Spade-toothed beaked whale seen for the very first time
http://www.komonews.com/news/va?vaid=1be26ae624f5d3a7134a7624206f3c4c
The whale washed ashore of New Zealand two years ago. It took two years for proper identification to learn that this is the species we've only known about from occasional bone finds. Spade-toothed whales reside in deep sea, and have never been seen on record, prior to this -
John William De Forest, Overland
Literary note:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_De_Forest
Just completed Overland. This novel is written in the the style of a classic Western adventure with plethora of Indian ambushes, a cheesy plot line, an inept intrigue, and a rather incomplete, but a happy ending. The author appears fairly bitter and judgmental of all, but white men. ( Read more... ) -
nice tech quote
Serge Sountsov security is a tradeoff between risk and convenience -
Abuse, or coming out of the closet
One day, I must start talking about this, or else I will have never truly healed, or so "they" say. However, it begs the question of why would anyone want to hear it? Why would I share something so awful, so damaging, dirty, and disgusting, instead of sharing the light, the smiles, the funny stories, the love (and yes, I do love you all), the ( Read more... )