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Middle aged would-be F/OSS hacker. Emacs, Python, C++ preferred. Gentoo by choice, Windows in chains.
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http://www.emacs ... ChristopherSmith
Middle aged would-be F/OSS hacker. Emacs, Python, C++ preferred. Gentoo by choice, Windows in chains.
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Attempt at subtle Microsoft troll foiled by unicode
Thursday May 15, @12:49PM
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=554162&cid=23419618
reference is to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Washington
And I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those meddling accent bits!
reference is to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Washington
And I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those meddling accent bits!
Academia's Jihad Against Military History is not Succeeding
Thursday May 08, @10:06AM
http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/5757.html
This is blatant hyperbole, but there is a sad non-command of dispassionate analytic thought in the Ivory Tower anymore.In fact, I don't know how much good it would do to have the current population of academia teaching this history. They may well do more harm than good. I got a kick out of the story of the history professor who knew only two things about the American role in World War II: The internment of the Japanese and the atomic bombings, both of course presented as American crimes. That would be funny if it were not nausea-inducing, and if my tax money weren't paying for it.
Obscure word of the day
Sunday May 04, @09:09AM
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chrestomathy
So, if you see a triptych of hagiographic chrestomathy, you could be instantly turned into a chrysalis.
Be safe!
So, if you see a triptych of hagiographic chrestomathy, you could be instantly turned into a chrysalis.
Be safe!
Staggering fact of the day
Tuesday April 29, @10:34PM
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/186-million-empty-houses.php
there are 24 empty houses for every homeless person in America
Wow, even if that's a gross overestimate, it's still a staggering stat.
there are 24 empty houses for every homeless person in America
Wow, even if that's a gross overestimate, it's still a staggering stat.
Getting an early start on TT
Monday April 21, @11:00PM
Something in this comment triggered my muse:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=530022&cid=23153514
Whoops! Tubed a pronoun early on. Oh, well.
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=530022&cid=23153514
Whoops! Tubed a pronoun early on. Oh, well.
