Note to future self: Don’t get haircut the week before important events take place.
After my last day of work at GeoEye, I went to get my haircut at a nearby salon. I asked for it a little shorter. Between the time I gave this brief instruction, and the time she lifted her hands to [...]
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be able to read minds (anyone’s around you. Selectively. You aren’t forced.)
- OR -
be the smartest person in the world (in any field, you’re a genius)
…a question my wife and I pondered as we cleaned the house the other day…
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Wear my Google t-shirt.
Set my homepage to www.google.com
Continually ask, “Have you met BillG? Where’s BillG? When can I see BillG?”
Show off my bright blue iPod Nano
“Upgrade” my workstation to Windows XP
Then just format it and install Ubuntu
Randomly shout “Yahoo!” as I walk through [...]
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http://xkcd.com/442/
AND I love the Discovery Channel commercial.
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This kind of thing has happened to be a few times now, so I thought I’d share the fun.
In one of our pieces of software we have a process that looks like this:
void MyThread()
{
while (true)
{
DoFunctionA();
[...]
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Via Geekologie comes the hilarious tale of a man (boy, really) caught stealing NetFlix DVDs from a mailbox. The comments are funny, too. Some seem like they’re obviously written by the neighbor.
One issue I didn’t really see addressed in the comments on the post is the overall issue of mail safety. People need to consider [...]
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I just discovered this gem of a podcast. The Bugle is a podcast published by the Times Online. Better writing than the Onion, and funnier than the Daily Show. It’s basically two Brits being witty about the week’s news. I’ve only listened to episode one so far, but found myself laughing too hard to concentrate [...]
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Well, after a week of investigation, I’ve settled on a social network for books: Shelfari. It’s attractive, easy-to-use, easy to manipulate many books at once, they have a mobile version, and I have one friend on it (who invited me).
Goodreads.com also looked nice, and it almost won. bookwormr.com, the one I originally found was just [...]
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Thank you for your increasing interest in my blog, which is apparently slowly gaining in popularity with legitimate readers too!
Unfortunately, my dear spammers, you are idiots. 100% of comments on this blog are moderated–99.9% are filtered before I ever see them. The rest are fairly obvious scams. None of your stupid spammy comments will ever [...]
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1. Write out all floating point values between 0 and 1.
2. Write tic-tac-toe in Brainf*&$
3. What is 2128 in decimal?
4. Solve traveling salesman in constant time (O(1))
5. How many grains of sand are there in the Sahara (at a given instant, assuming constant, well-defined boundaries)?
6. Implement quicksort on a spherically linked list.
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