THE FULL MOON'S UNFATHOMABLE light-path

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Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:36:14 -0700

4th from the top of the hill (bernal heights park)

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:23:07 -0700

4th from the top of the hill (bernal heights park)

Mreh.

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:59:12 -0700

Sometimes I think about writing here. I just came out of some kinda crazy sickness that ran my body down into almost nothing. I’m still here. I feel a lot better (as of Sunday?). So, yay. Most things go other places, or in secret paper journals, or nowhere at all. Mreh. Today, I’m pretty good.

This panda has achieved a supreme level of awesomeness.

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:50:22 -0700

This panda has achieved a supreme level of awesomeness.

old-ads-and-mags: Space Race card game

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:47:18 -0700

old-ads-and-mags:

Space Race card game

Cogs Bad

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:09:20 -0800

williamedwardscoder:

There is something really wrong with modern programmers. Very wrong indeed.

Mailinator creator Paul Tyma has a great blog post on how he compresses our email by 90%. He has a simple LRU cache of lines and consecutive lines from emails, so emails become a list of line string pointers where most are shared. He also has a background thread doing rather stronger LZMA compression on large emails. He’s winning.

Thing is, in one of the comments on the Hacker News version of the article, someone wonders why he didn’t use Redis for the LRU.

I think of the kindest, least shouting way to hint that that’s not such a good idea; I say it might be higher latency to block on a Redis LRU than using a in-process data-structure. Other commenters responds by saying that Redis is known to be fast; that they have just chosen node.js and Redis for their startup because of its performance.

This is wrong on so many levels. So many levels. I don’t single these people out - they are just a useful illustration. Their mindset is endemic in this industry. All around you, the new generation of programmers are making the same assumptions.

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deadnest: h.p.

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:17:43 -0800

deadnest:

h.p.

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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:03:40 -0800

i knit this.

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:00:00 -0800

i knit this.

"Please believe that I am falling apart."

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:52:45 -0800

“Please believe that I am falling apart.”

- Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children)

"What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same thing."

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:52:37 -0800

“What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same thing.”

- Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children (via redwrenwalking)

phonyrevolutions: neil-gaiman: It’s nice to see a New Year’s...

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:28:31 -0800

phonyrevolutions:

neil-gaiman:

It’s nice to see a New Year’s Wish rendered as a poster…

I can’t believe my poster was reblogged by Neil Gaiman on his official Tumblr! I feel all kinds of special now xD (even though someone reposted it, which makes me feel not so special, but then again, I’m just happy he got to see it :D)

One more time people, we’re almost there, Happy New Year! ^^

"NOTES Not only the title, but the plan and a good deal of the incidental symbolism of the poem were..."

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:00:00 -0800

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NOTES

Not only the title, but the plan and a good deal of the incidental symbolism of the poem were suggested by Miss Jessie L. Weston’s book on the Grail legend: From Ritual to Romance (Macmillan). Indeed, so deeply am I indebted, Miss Weston’s book will elucidate the difficulties of the poem much better than my notes can do; and I recommend it (apart from the great interest of the book itself) to any who think such elucidation of the poem worth the trouble. To another work of anthropology I am indebted in general, one which has influenced our generation profoundly; I mean The Golden Bough; I have used especially the two volumes Attis Adonis Osiris. Anyone who is acquainted with these works will immediately recognise in the poem certain references to vegetation ceremonies.

”

- Footnote to T S Eliot’s The Waste Land

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Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:58:02 -0800

"If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can..."

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:56:26 -0800

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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—-and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—-and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—-nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—-which is more—-you’ll be a Man, my son!

”

- Rudyard Kipling

brianshaughnessy: “The neighborhoods had always been heavy on...

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:14:13 -0800

brianshaughnessy:

“The neighborhoods had always been heavy on the locals only vibe, but he was, I don’t know, religious about it. There were several landmarks in the area that he had some of the local kids venerating.” - Patricia DuBois

http://bit.ly/tower_zero

(catch up on part 1 before part 2 drops in the very near feature)

iseesigils: the lament configuration..

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:16:48 -0800

iseesigils:

the lament configuration..

mmmm oyez oyez oyez

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:57:52 -0800

mmmm oyez oyez oyez

Life is Painless for the Brainless 6:): Okay OWS blocking the Brooklyn Bridge is an example of why so many black people won't back them.

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:30:28 -0800

Life is Painless for the Brainless 6:): Okay OWS blocking the Brooklyn Bridge is an example of why so many black people won't back them.:

chocolatejigglypuff:

I was one of the only few, that supported them

BUT THEM BLOCKING THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE SAYS : eff the privileges you, THE 99%, don’t have to take off of work for 2 months and protest, we’re going to stop you from getting to work, on time or at all to support the people that rely on you, even if…

widen the circle of compassion

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 08:55:11 -0700

youguysaremyfriends:

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

—

Albert Einstein (via incomprehensibleuniverse)

THE FULL MOON'S UNFATHOMABLE light-path

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4th from the top of the hill (bernal heights park)

Mreh.

This panda has achieved a supreme level of awesomeness.

old-ads-and-mags: Space Race card game

Cogs Bad

deadnest: h.p.

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i knit this.

"Please believe that I am falling apart."

"What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same thing."

phonyrevolutions: neil-gaiman: It’s nice to see a New Year’s...

"NOTES Not only the title, but the plan and a good deal of the incidental symbolism of the poem were..."

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"If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can..."

brianshaughnessy: “The neighborhoods had always been heavy on...

“The neighborhoods had always been heavy on the locals only vibe, but he was, I don’t know, religious about it. There were several landmarks in the area that he had some of the local kids venerating.” - Patricia DuBois

http://bit.ly/tower_zero(catch up on part 1 before part 2 drops in the very near feature)

iseesigils: the lament configuration..

mmmm oyez oyez oyez

Life is Painless for the Brainless 6:): Okay OWS blocking the Brooklyn Bridge is an example of why so many black people won't back them.

widen the circle of compassion

http://bit.ly/tower_zero

(catch up on part 1 before part 2 drops in the very near feature)