I’ve been using the word “no” an awful lot lately. For some reason over the past few months there’s been a lot of interest shown in my resume (which apparently is out there somewhere, though I don’t remember where) and my LinkedIn profile. I get all sorts of random emails, LinkedIn messages, and even phone [...]
On July 23, 2007, two career criminals broke into the home of a prominent Connecticut doctor, intent on robbing it. When they entered, they discovered the family was at home - the doctor, his wife, and their two daughters, 11 and 17. They beat the doctor. They tied the 11-year-old girl to her bed, and [...]
As many of you know (because I have no internal filter), I was recently in talks with Yahoo, who were talking about relocating me to California to go to work for them. The title of this post refers to an interview question they asked me, which was, “Can you think of an efficient algorithm to [...]
I recently learned that people in Virginia - that’s people in general, certainly not every one of them - have a keen distaste for the state of Maryland and its contents. I don’t know why this is, much as I cannot explain to you why people from Michigan look south to Ohio with disdain, even [...]
Sometimes you run across someone so profoundly dumb you do a mental double-take before realizing that, yes, they really did just do something that stupid.
Case in point: Today I was browsing around doing a little research on a Bluetooth headset I’ve had my eye on when I stumbled across a site belonging to a [...]
I’ve been tagged. I’m supposed to tell you (in case there is a you) eight things you (probably) don’t know about me.
I first attended college at the ripe old age of 12. I thought I was 14, but last Christmas the topic came up and my parents convinced me I was 12 (and of course [...]
This is me trying to look like I know what I’m talking about at Barcamp in Washington, DC this past Saturday, August 11. This day was the most fun I’ve had in a long time, and I managed to learn a few things, too. I immediately went home and fixed some of my code based [...]
I spent all day today discovering something that’s both useful, and frustrating. To put it shortly, having a primary key on the join table for your habtm relationship will cause you problems. But having an :id field that isn’t a primary key does something useful. Want details?
I was trying to figure out how, even [...]
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Captured this on the Ohio Turnpike. I admire the guy’s chutzpah, showing the world what he thinks of it even as he’s passed out in the back seat of a car.
Spotted these on a store shelf in Michigan. I wonder if “Reality” means that the box is actually empty.
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