Skip the chocolate ice cream jokes…
As GoddessJ says, always be polite to the people in charge of your food.
Archive of entries posted by Head Geek
Busy, busy, busy…
Sorry for the lack of posts recently. The title says it all — I’ve been quite busy for the last couple weeks. For one thing, I’ve been working on my Stack Overflow reputation, with the goal of reaching 2,000 reputation points. Why, you ask? Well, I like explaining things to interested people, and I enjoy …
The DMCA Bites Back
I love seeing politicians being caught in their own traps.
Autumn Office Cleaning
Spurred by the death of my desktop system a few days ago, I spent most of yesterday cleaning up and rearranging the office, especially my desk. I hadn’t intended to spend much time on it. My initial plan was just to remove the carcass of the desktop system and store it somewhere out of the …
And The World Mourns The Passing Of Another Desktop Computer
This evening, as I was working away on the laptop that has been my main system for the last couple years, things got suddenly much quieter in the office — my desktop system, which had been running near-continuously for most of its five and a half years of life, had shut itself off very abruptly. …
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Geeky Programmer Quote of the Day
From the first (and so far only) comment to this Stack Overflow answer: BTW, it’s “complement”, not “compliment”. One’s compliment could be “that’s a nice sign bit you’re wearing today”. – Roddy It’s a computer science thing. 🙂
“Wanted: Intelligent Aliens, for a Research Project”
A very interesting look at the problems with human perception, and how that affects our understanding of ourselves.
“You Can Have Anything You Want…”
“…but you can’t have everything you want.” Those wise words come from one of Barbara Sher’s life-planning books, I believe. The idea is that, if you devote yourself to it, you can achieve pretty much any goal you set your mind to — pretty standard stuff in that kind of book — but by the …
GTD Progress
While I was gearing up for my most recent attempt at GTD (and my most successful one, by far), I went to the local office-supply store and picked up several boxes of file folders. GoddessJ, my wife, protested: “what do you need all of those for?” (My flip answer, “it’s a GTD thing, you wouldn’t …
There’s No Antonym of Authoritarian
In a conversation a while back, I needed a word to express the opposite of authoritarian. I couldn’t find one in my memory, which struck me as odd, so I later looked it up. It seems that there is no English word that describes the opposite of authoritarian; the closest thing I found, after perusing …