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Are you purposef...
Are you purposefully avoiding saying the H word (as in, the name of the bridge)?
-- (October 5, 2005) on saturday, 2005-10-01 0100
An explanatory o...
An explanatory one-liner (along the lines of your "litigious bastards" explanation) would be helpful to those of us who want to emulate your ways.
And, what, no Amazon? I thought the "one-click" patent thing had soured you on them forever.
-- (March 24, 2005) on sunday, 2005-03-20 0348
With the whole s...
With the whole split toe thing (the appearance of which is heightened by the stuffed-in tissue paper), I seriously thought (at first) that maybe these were some new kind of ninja clogs that you were showing off.
-- (March 21, 2005) on thursday, 2005-03-17 2356
DC has such a st...
DC has such a strongly Democrat voting history (wouldn't necessarily call it a "heritage") for a couple of reasons (or, at least, as a combined effect of several factors):
- DC is a large city, and nothing but. As a rule, large cities tend to vote Democrat, and DC has no outlying rural areas (or even suburbs) to balance out the vote.
- DC has a relatively large African-American population compared to other cities, and African-Americans have, in the past, tended to vote Democrat (getting into the reasons why would take a lot of space); this trend has slightly lessened as of late, but it's still a pretty one-sided deal.
- DC has a huge number of government workers (obviously), and government workers of the more bureaucratic variety tend to vote for big government and social engineering.
- More than anywhere else in the country, people in DC are caught up in (and generally enjoying) the swirl of politics, and that's usually a recipe for voting for image over substance. For the past three decades, and especially for the last twelve years, the Democrats have been the party of image over substance. I know that sounds pig-headed of me, but it's true... watch for a shake-up (re: image vs. substance) amongst the Democrats in the next four years, that is if they're smart enough to actually have one.
-- (November 5, 2004) on wednesday, 2004-11-03 1349
Many of these im...
Many of these images have a "No, Kitty, don't jump!" quality to them.
Notice how devoid of expression her face is. It's as if nothing means anything to her any more... so sad. What else could this be but a cry for help?
-- (October 15, 2004) on friday, 2004-10-15 0404
So wheres my poo...
So where's my poopie-water?
-- (October 10, 2004) on saturday, 2004-10-09 0314
The best name fo...
The best name for a knife is clearly "Mack".
-- (October 10, 2004) on saturday, 2004-10-09 0314
In the words of ...
In the words of Lee Ryan devotees everywhere, get lost, you perv.
-- (September 22, 2004) on wednesday, 2004-09-22 0201
As opposed to, s...
As opposed to, say, having a blog that defines the very word "geek"? Mr. Pot, meet Ms. Kettle.
-- (August 17, 2004) on tuesday, 2004-08-10 2229
cool. i am so j...
cool. i am so jealous. you lucky dog.
-- (April 10, 2004) on saturday, 2004-04-10 0148
i am clueless (d...
i am clueless (despite your clues). it is obviously Mac-related. what is it, pray tell?
-- (March 17, 2004) on tuesday, 2004-03-16 0016
they're tarsie...
they're tarsiers or something like that... the same thing as what's on the cover of the vi book. i think you're just scared of their teeth (which are the same set of teeth that this Veitch guy uses for some of his other stuff).
back before i saw "We Like the Moon", i thought they were dead / reconstituted rats or something, but that's because i couldn't understand why the soloist thing had all his legs jammed over to one side. little did i know that it was because he was clutching the MOON.
-- (March 5, 2004) on wednesday, 2004-03-03 0108
see When Biscuit...
see When Biscuits Go Wrong for something a little more palatable.
-- (March 4, 2004) on wednesday, 2004-03-03 0108
you are the king...
you are the king of all things time-wasting.
did you also see the "Big Bunny" stuff?
-- (March 2, 2004) on monday, 2004-03-01 0239
i am so confus...
i am so confused.
alright, i wasted a bunch of time and got a score of 6100 points. yippee. i prefer to waste my time by watching this. that "pepper bar" thing kills me every time.
okay, with some more experimentation, i got 6400. and this time the game actually cheered for me (hooray).
argh. now i see that you have to max everything out. forget it. back to the pepper bar.
well, the addiction was too hard to kick, so i came back and figured out how to actually finish the game. sweet victory!
(yeah, i know you guys figured out how to win a long time ago, and with fewer updates to Ryan's poor journal thing, but at least now i have cataloged, for all time, the sheer drama of the emotional rollercoaster that is "GROW").
-- (February 23, 2004) on saturday, 2004-02-21 0035
pictures of the ...
pictures of the california rolls would have been interesting. i'm puzzled about this egg substitution thing. how did you get the egg (scrambled?) to act as a wrapper?
-- (February 12, 2004) on wednesday, 2004-02-11 2225
what, no photos ...
what, no photos of your good-looking haircut?
-- (January 28, 2004) on tuesday, 2004-01-27 0048
that sounds like...
that sounds like a geek wedding vow or something.
-- (January 8, 2004) on saturday, 2004-01-03 1639
from memory, of ...
from memory, of course... how dare you suggest otherwise? i tuned out most of the film except the sinking part (which was basically the point of the film... let's watch massive tragedy unfold, and give us some thin characters and plot as an excuse for tragedy-watching), and the Propeller Guy was just so very memorable.
i saw RotK again and located the "flight of four" in which BMTG must have been, but i couldn't quite pick out which dude it was. if it was the leftmost guy in the frame, i thought i saw him redirect sideways a bit (on striking a building?), but i didn't really notice anyone bouncing all trampoline-like (which was what i was hoping for).
-- (January 4, 2004) on monday 2003-12-22 0024
hmm, i dont know...
hmm, i don't know about that "depth" thing... crew over music?
-- (January 3, 2004) on friday, 2004-01-02 1708
exactly right, w...
exactly right, with the twanging & tumbling after Propeller Guy clips the propeller. you can definitely hear it.
-- (January 3, 2004) on monday, 2003-12-22 0024
i just saw the m...
i just saw the movie (RotK), and i didn't see the bouncy guy. can you give any particular directions for locating him?
the cool thing about "propeller man" wasn't just that he bounced / deflected, but that he started tumbling end over end (i think).
-- (January 2, 2004) on monday, 2003-12-22 0024
in the "PowerPoi...
in the "PowerPoint makes you dumb" article, they refer to Ed Tufte and his rantings about PowerPoint. i did a quick web search and found this, which really helps me digest what Tufte is saying in his screed (hah hah hah... funny because Tufte is sort of cocky about this kind of thing).
-- (December 16, 2003) on monday, 2003-12-08 1541
no, youve totall...
no, you've totally messed it up... you misspelled "tramsitted".
-- (December 16, 2003) on monday, 2003-12-15 0059
i read Shadow of...
i read "Shadow of the Pokemon", and it wasn't that bad (no worse than any of the other sequels). yeah, the "brilliant children" thing does get pretty old, as does the "one-world government / benevolent dictator will solve all our problems" bit.
-- (December 1, 2003) on sunday, 2003-11-23 1824
ive been doing p...
i've been doing pretty much the same thing, reading through these "Ender" novels on an almost-one-per-day basis (but not on consecutive days, of course).
"Speaker for the Dead" is the second novel in the series, so i'd suggest reading that next. but i did see a box set that had "Ender's Game", "Ender's Shadow", and "Ender's [something or other]" in it, as if it were legitimate to skip some of the intermediate installments. weird. anyway, the series is listed out (in order) in the front of each book (but you knew that).
-- (November 17, 2003) on sunday, 2003-11-16 0200
i am confused ab...
i am confused about the hounding and harassing. you claim to have visited in order to perpetrate "H&H" on myself, and yet you were the one who was H&Hed in the end (see paragraph #2 of your journal entry).
ah, i get it... it's just like the giving of gifts (where you give in order to bless someone, and yet you find that you're the one who walks away blessed; or, as bcblue would laboriously put it, "blesst"). now i'm in the mood for Christmas, and i just know this is going to be the best Christmas _ever_.
-- (November 12, 2003) on monday, 2003-11-10 2114
at first glance ...
at first glance i thought it said "japanese chicks". actually, i wonder how many stray Google hits you'll get off that one (the strayness would have to derive from brain farts and not typos, though, given how far away "i" and "e" are from each other on a qwerty keyboard... perhaps from a Dvorak keyboard user, but you're more likely to get "japanese chucks" from that (and since when have "Dvorak" and "likely" ever gone together?)).
-- (September 12, 2003) on thursday, 2003-09-11 0127
very small rocks...
very small rocks!
[wait for it]
a duck!
-- (August 5, 2003) on monday, 2003-08-04 1805
it's part of Car...
it's part of Carmina Burana, by Carl Orff. yep, it's a very popular tune that gets used for all kinds of stuff, especially movie trailers. one of my fraternity brothers used it for a project in some video class @ MIT: he made a video of our IM hockey team, set to this music. in the quiet, tension-building parts at the beginning, guys were putting on their equipment; then he had shots of nasty-looking checks timed to the big percussive beats in the loud middle section; and for the bells-ringing/trumpets-playing exultant part at the end, he showed folks celebrating at the end of the game. it was pretty well-made, and pretty hilarious.
-- (April 19, 2003) on saturday, 2003-04-19 0145
i just like the ...
i just like the "you can get lost you perv" part.
maybe you should make your site less funky-looking. i don't really know what Lee Ryan's projected image is, but i assume it's at least somewhat dark, brooding, and angst-ridden, and your black background and blue lettering would tend to you confirm that you, indeed, are he.
do you have any tattoos?
-- (April 15, 2003) on thursday, 2003-04-10 1416
i think the whol...
i think the whole thing is worth the hassle, just for the joy of getting emails like that one. why are you complaining?
-- (April 11, 2003) on thursday, 2003-04-10 1416
nasty, stinking ...
nasty, stinking hobbitses. we hates them.
-- (March 2, 2003) on saturday, 2003-03-01 2257
was the "Silk ...
was the "Silk Road Ensemble" involved in the performance you saw? they have an album that i recommend (Yo-Yo Ma is one of the performers on the album).
yeah, Ma keeps one foot pretty firmly in the world of modern and experimental music. he has done a whole lot of crossover work (the Silk Road stuff is a good example, as is Hush w/ Bobby McFerrin (very good!)), and he spends a lot of time performing debuts for contemporary composers (see the latest John Williams release, which is pretty good but very non-traditional).
if you really want to pig out on cello music, i'd suggest Ma's latest rendition of Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suites... note that it's all solo music, so you may get sick of the cello by the time it's done.
and, of course, there's about a jillion other recordings featuring Yo-Yo Ma, especially more traditional symphonic pieces.
-- (February 23, 2003) on saturday, 2003-02-22 1259
Lee Ryan. Lee...
Lee Ryan. Lee Ryan. Lee Ryan. Lee Ryan.
(you're only around result #50 in a Google search i just ran, and that ranking just doesn't do justice to your groovy coolness, so consider this a small boost).
-- (February 11, 2003) on sunday, 2003-02-09 1706
funny, i had nev...
funny, i had never noticed your paragraphs are justified (alignment-wise). but i guess there were so many short words in the first sentence of your journal entry that extra whitespace caught my eye. fascinating.
well, now you have fixed it. ok, i will re-create the effect by typing a reallylongrunonwordheresothatalltheshortwordspriorwillprobablybeonasingleline. hooray, i have succeeded!
-- (January 9, 2003) on wednesday 2003-01-08 0602
i think the "......
i think the "...but little Lord Jesus, no crying He makes..." bit comes from the assertion that a baby's crying is evidence (or outcome, whatever) of their sin nature. and so, by extension, the same people asserted that Jesus, being without sin, didn't cry as an infant. i don't see it as a particularly important assertion (more of a theological diversion, really). while we've all seen older babies & toddlers who cry to get what they want (and who need to be spanked more... smack!), i would think that a newborn infant probably has some very good reasons to shriek, if only from shock (e.g., "my head just got squooshed real bad", and "what is all this air stuff in my lungs", and "where did all these lights come from").
i know what you mean about Park Street, too. it seems like they have more than their share of anecdotal sermons. to put it another way, you can forget to bring your Bible to the service, and you'll be just fine (and not just because there's Bibles in the pews... i forget whether they even have them there or not). anyway, different types, i guess, and it has been a while since i've attended there. but i did wish that they would get into the Bible more emphatically.
-- (December 17, 2002) on monday 2002-12-16 0217
that is so weird...
that is so weird. either someone has too much time on their hands or there's some sort of conspiracy (i.e., several people with too much time on their hands). i made sure to give a "yes, this review was helpful" vote to each of the reviews i saw.
-- (December 16, 2002) on thursday 2002-12-12 2136
don't get me sta...
don't get me started on Gore. he'll literally say anything he has to, he's just that desperate. his father (Senator Gore Sr.) was an opponent of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and yet he has repeatedly tried to spin it as if his father was some kind of champion of civil rights (as if that reflects on Junior somehow... which it doesn't really, except for the lying-about-it part).
Lott's not exactly my favorite politician in the world (he chose "pragmatic" over "principled" back during the Clinton impeachment, and he was, sadly, correct), but Gore is certifiable.
-- (December 11, 2002) on monday 2002-12-09 1836
yeah, that is a ...
yeah, that is a shocking / appalling statement, not so much of the "wow, that's a tough one" variety as much as the "wow, this person has really bought into some big lies" variety.
and, as you say, there are many answers to be given. personally, i'm thinking of two passages from Psalm 51, both of them speaking to God, : Psalm 51:4 ("Against you, you only have I sinned") and Psalm 51:16-17 ("You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.")
a more direct way of answering (perhaps saying the same thing) would be to say "look, your 'payment' means exactly diddley-squat to God". this whole "i'll pay for the suffering" decision is right next door to the argument that i'm justified because "i've lived a good life". both of them are very prideful arguments. no big surprise there. pretty much every sin (and the fundamental state of being dead in sins) can be traced back, ultimately, to pride.
-- (November 7, 2002) on monday 2002-11-04 0909
[this is more ...
[this is more of an OOP comment than a Java comment, and a nit-picky one at that]
the concept you're calling "abstraction" might more accurately be called "encapsulation" (details of how a method is implemented are encapsulated behind the interface of that method, i as a user am freed from knowing or caring about the sordid details of how the encapsulated magic happens (as long as the interface delivers on its promises), yadda yadda yadda).
i suppose that encapsulation is a form of abstraction (the details of some actual work (i.e., the implementation) has been re-interpreted (as an "interface") from its concrete world (electrical switches & currents) to my abstract world (a button that degausses my monitor). but i think "encapsulation" is a more complete description of what you're illustrating here: not just abstraction of details, but complete hiding of details.
okay, i guess encapsulation and abstraction are exactly the same thing (if you put forward the argument of "how can details from a concrete world even exist in an abstract world", so complete hiding effectively happens anyway). i'd just be (slightly) careful, because the keyword "abstract" has a specific meaning in Java (to wit, abstract classes cannot be instantiated and abstract methods have only interfaces, with no implementation details); even thought the meaning is certainly related to the concepts you're presenting here, it could also become confusing.
-- (October 14, 2002) on sunday 2002-10-13 0223
[grunts and poun...
[grunts and pounds chest in victory]
-- (October 13, 2002) on wednesday 2002-10-09 2130
don't go burni...
don't go burning yourself out in your first weeks of work there... six hours. wow.
-- (October 11, 2002) on wednesday 2002-10-09 2130
i think it's j...
i think it's just laziness, pure and simple... which can hardly have anything to do with going to (or staying at) MIT. so we're both just terribly multi-faceted, huh?
just kidding, of course. commence w/ the serious, non-flippant discussion.
first, with regard to "the syndrome" (regardless of MIT), i think it comes from basic personality traits (at least in our cases, yours & mine). dare i guess that you, too, are an INTP? that would indicate a creative, idea-generating (and project-generating) thought life that has a hard time deciding what to do next (or, more accurately, prefers to leave things open-ended).
with regard to MIT, then, i'm not sure... i dare say that you'd find plenty of people (of a certain type) from all walks of life who are going through the same thing, i.e. the "lots of nerdy things i'd love to do and no motivation to get started" thing. but they'd have to be the type of person who actually comes up with ideas of nerdy things things they'd love to do (w/ some serious intent to actually do them), and that kind of thing is actually a little unusual in the population at large, i think. it goes back to personality.
[side-note on nerdiness, for all those non-MIT folks reading this (right...): it doesn't have to be computer-related, either... it has to be "nerdy", which (in the MIT tradition) describes any reasonably intellectual pursuit undertaken (mostly) for the pleasure thereof (and for bragging rights).]
[you should enlarge the "Comment" text area on the "Edit comment" page... it's hard to write lengthy comments when viewing only five 50-character lines at a time. maybe you're trying to discourage wordy comments on your journal?]
-- (September 20, 2002) on saturday 2002-09-14 0053
i suffer from ...
i suffer from the same affliction. i have no useful tips of any sort.
-- (September 16, 2002) on saturday 2002-09-14 0053
Yeah, you're d...
Yeah, you're definitely not journaling... you're commenting. And checking your web logs. Get back to work!
-- (August 17, 2002) on tuesday 2002-08-06 0234