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Archive for June, 2007

best program ever

Monday, June 25th, 2007

graph [scroll down] is a small ocaml program that me and a coworker wrote. It graphs data coming down standard in, on your terminal! It’s like, really trivial and yet so useful.
One catch: it currently doesn’t support negative numbers properly. I’d love to see a patch that made it do [...]

magnetic poetry

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

You may even remember this one if you’ve been to our apartment recently.

monthly challenges

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Lately I’ve been into challenging myself by setting arbitrary rules for my behavior, usually for a one-month period. The idea is to learn or grow through this exercise. Some things I’ve tried so far:

Going vegetarian for a month. This didn’t feel all that enlightening at the time, but for other reasons I’ve [...]

Looking for a little hope?

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Let’s say you just got through watching one of the republican debates in it’s entirety. Now, you’re mortified about what’s going to happen to the world in 2008.
Relax! It doesn’t have to be that way. Sit back and listen to this (it’s about 45 minutes):
parts 1 2 3 4 5

Mitt Romney

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Romney looks like a slicked-up 50’s poster child.

He also talks a little like maybe he thinks that’s what he is (and, correspondingly, that’s how the world is today). Also, he’s the flippiest-floppiest liberal-that-wants-to-be-conservative up there, except for maybe Giuliani. Heck, let’s take care of Rudy while we’re at it..
Tom Tancredo
Mike Huckabee
Sam Brownback
John McCain
Rudy [...]

Duncan Hunter’s right out

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Rep. Duncan Hunter of California said he believes the United States should communicate with Iran despite what he termed its constant state sponsorship of terrorism.
But he also warned that he would not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapons program.
“I would authorize the use of tactical nuclear weapons if there was no other way to [...]