I’m fascinated by this kind of stuff, and thought I’d share it. There’s also another article by the same people that’s just as interesting, on the interaction of genetic disposition and environment in producing behaviors.
I disagree with this slightly. I wasn’t “relentlessly resourceful” when I started my first startup — but I was, and am, a very stubborn determined person. When I start pounding my head against a problem, I don’t stop until either the problem breaks or my head does. So far, it has always been the problem. …
Sometimes you’ve just got to ask yourself what some would-be criminal “mastermind” was thinking. This is one of them. Nine thousand?! I’m the first to agree with the phrase “if it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing,” but even I have limits. And the stupid-stick apparently whacked Apple here too — did no one there notice …
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Not sure if this is a hoax, but if it’s real, it’s interesting. In a similar vein (and more likely to be real), you can apparently develop film with coffee and vitamin C.
For someone like me, who always tries to trace the reasons for human behaviors, there were a couple of very odd interviews on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report this week. These shows almost always interview recently-published authors on book-promotion tours. The interviews are set up by the authors’ publicists, to get the word …
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Yesterday was trash-pickup day for our street. Our trash collectors aren’t too careful, so we sometimes get pieces of wind-blown garbage lying around. While walking to our local store for some cat-related supplies, I saw such an item. It was a 5.25″ floppy disk labeled “Turbo C.” That’s C, not C++. The copyright date in …
Looks like Microsoft is going to save the world, yet again. Yes, I’m cynical about anything Microsoft does that supposedly benefits anyone else. They didn’t get where they are through altruism. But a closer look shows that that cynicism might not be justified here. It is a real improvement to their product, and a valid …
A bonus post, in honor of the day.
We always knew it was inevitable, but the break from it was nice while it lasted. (No, this is not an April Fool’s joke, much as I wish it were.)
This is a good story. It doesn’t have a happy ending — but only because it isn’t an ending, it’s a continuing story whose end has yet to be written. Before I started Oak Circle, I had an earlier company (the one that created Project Badger). That was my first successful business, but it was …