Canned PlatypusI care about this stuff so you don't have toStrange Parenting Moments- (Found July 8, 2008 ) On the way home from visiting the Stone Zoo on Saturday - pictures tonight, I hope - Cindy and I had an interesting conversation with Amy. It was generally about some kids not having a mommy and daddy, some having two mommies (we know one such), some only having ...http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=1360 Safe Places- (Found July 8, 2008 ) A few years ago, Katrina taught us about the risks of building a city in a river delta. This year, we're learning (again) about the dangers of building cities on a flood plain. In other cases we've learned to avoid earthquake faults. When you consider hurricanes and ...http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=1350 On the Internet, Nobody Knows Youre a Bag of Rocks- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Can anybody possibly take this stuff seriously, and pay good money for it I found the site when J-Walk linked to the "Brilliant Pebbles" which are basically little plastic baggies full of rocks (cost of production approx. $0.10 apiece) that you put in various places to enhance your stereo's ...http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=1351 Catching Strays- (Found July 8, 2008 ) If I were ever to teach an actual class, it would probably be about how to write networking code that actually works. A lot of people teach about protocols and algorithms, and that stuff's definitely important, but I see a lot less about there about the nitty-gritty details of how ...http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=1352 Creating Jobs- (Found July 8, 2008 ) I hear a lot about how rich people create jobs. BS. If anybody creates jobs it's innovators, not rich people, and in any case why does creating jobs matter more than doing them You can't create a job without having someone to fill it. Just because ...http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=1353 Foresight Linux First Thoughts- (Found July 8, 2008 ) I hadn't had any trouble with either of my laptops recently, so I decided to mess around with my desktop instead by installing Foresight Linux on it (to replace Xubuntu). I had first heard about it because I'd heard good things about its package manager Conary, and then because ...http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=1354 Dead Wood- (Found July 8, 2008 ) One of the earliest photos I posted on this site, when I was still getting the hang of digital photography in 2002, was of a fungus on a tree in our front yard. Here's what it looked like... ...and here's what I had to say about it at the time. There ...http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=1355 Programming for Thousands of Cores- (Found July 8, 2008 ) First, Anwar Ghuloum at Intel posted Unwelcome Advice, which contains this warning: Ultimately, the advice Ill offer is that these developers should start thinking about tens, hundreds, and thousands of cores now in their algorithmic development and deployment pipeline. This starts at a pretty early stage of development; usually, the basic ...http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=1357 SSD Power Consumption- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Apparently alarmed about the ongoing decline in their page views and associated ad revenue, the folks at Tom's Hardware posted an inflammatory article about The SSD Power Consumption Hoax several days ago. It got picked up just about everywhere in the technosphere; one of the latecomers was good ...http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=1359 My Name- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Somebody at work - hi, Elizabeth - asked whether I prefer to spell my name Darcy or d'Arcy. I started to reply, then the reply got so long that I decided to make a blog post out of it. The short version is that I myself use Darcy. ...http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=1349 |