Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
03aug2005
The Water Cooler Problem by Mitch Tulloch. Hey, I’m still looking into the wrong cupboard for dishes, altough we probably changed that three years ago.
OSCON 2.2: Creating Passionate Users, Geoff Broadwell on Kathy Sierra tutorial.
In-Ear Short Term Memory Device, lots of new possiblities come to my mind.
Colored Smoke at Sensitive Light. Beautiful.
Hacking Elevators 101! “Ever wonder how to hack an elevator to own it for your trip and not be stopped on any other floors?” I wonder if that works for the ones in Germany too.
The Complete Jailhouse Diaries by PoopyPeanutz. “For the past two weeks I have been cataloguing my experiences in jail on K5.”, “ejaculating in someone’s face is NOT assault–don’t ask.”
OSCON Day 1: Subversion Tutorial, Robert Kaye summarizes. I prefer other VCS, but you already know that.
Best Hacker: David Heinemeier Hansson, he won the 2005 Open Source Best Hacker award. Oh my.
Floating point arithmetic in C++ templates, this is the most perverse code I saw in a long time. They reimplement fixed point numbers just by using template expansion! But hey, “This gets about 8 flops on an Opteron 2.6.”
Informatics is like music, says Philip Van Hoof. I guess he means Computer Science. A fairly open metaphor.
Structured Procrastination by John Perry. “[t]he procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.” Exactly what I need.
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It’s easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.
— Bob Dylan, It’s Alright, Ma
OSCON D1, brian d foy summarizes the day.
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