I'll start with a taxonomy that made me laugh (caution: it's raunchy). Some columns I've written lately (tardy because of ANG technical problems): From April: Scheme, scheming, and geek authenticity and getting married -- a …
Last night I went to a Mike Daisey show about Tesla, which was very good of course, and I'm really looking forward to next week's conclusion of his "Great Men of Genius" series (L. Ron …
Keep my nails short Almost always honest & straightforward can make jokes am finally, finally, goddammit, learning to listen to other people hold on, this is supposed to be a self-affirming list am basically pretty …
Coworker 1, futzing with double-precision or floating-point or something: "Does 3 equal 3?" Coworker 2, immediately: "Sometimes." Me, cracking up: "Coworker 1, did you ask that just to try to get Coworker 2 to make …
A visit to Fog Creek; I discuss the Fog Creek Software Management Training Program with Betsy Weber of TechSmith.
An NYT article on why the tremendous civil liberty invasion by the NSA does us no good at all. Such a stupid wide-net ploy and for basically zero gain. The only things it facilitates are …
Some Fog Creekers made a fast-paced movie (2 minutes, 15 seconds) to demo some new features in FogBugz 5.0, which launches today.
Babak told me a knock-knock joke the other day. It really only works if you do it in a non-US accent. Knock, knock. Who's there? George. George who? George W. Bush! Variant: Knock, knock. Who's …
Super News! amuses me greatly. I laughed out loud at the end of "Wacky Saddam Trial."
A Clean Well-Lighted Place For Books is looking for a buyer, and Cody's on Telegraph, where I worked for almost a year, is closing. There'll still be the Fourth Street and San Francisco locations, but …
