In fact it is so difficult to argue against simplicity that this post won’t even attempt to. Let’s state emphatically that software should always do only what you need it to do, with the fewest number of steps, and least potential for errors due to complex choices and options.
On the other hand, good luck with that.
~ Steven Sinofsky from, Designing for scale and the tyranny of choice | Learning by Shipping
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I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.
The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
~ Carl Sagan
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On 05/07/13 09:15, Michael Tiernan wrote:
> “What is the UDP three way handshake?” He said he was wondering how many people would catch the question’s trick.You send three UDP packets in three different directions, then shake the hand of the person next to you.
~ Robert Lanning from, «https://lists.lopsa.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/018116.html»
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What you’ve just said… is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
~ “Decathalon Judge” from, Billy Madison – Wikipedia
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1. A calm morning ritual
~ Leo Babauta from, The 7 Habits of Calmness – Zen Habits Website
2. Learn to watch your response
3. Don’t take things personally
4. Be grateful
5. Create stress coping habits
6. Single-task
7. Reduce noise
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We can see that PPUE for most regions peaked around 2000. The big exceptions being Canada in 1992 and Europe and Africa in the mid 2000s. What this means for the majority of the world is that in little over ten years the average number of barrels of oil a single rig produces has almost halved. Put another way oil companies have had to double the number of rigs in operation just to maintain oil production at 2000 levels. This is the very definition of drilling faster just to stay still.
~ Andrew McKay from, Drilling Faster Just To Stay Still: A Proposal To Use ‘Production Per Unit Effort’ (PPUE) As An Indicator Of Peak Oil
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One way to gauge the cost/effort of producing oil is via Production Per Unit Effort (PPUE).
“Peak oil” is not simply about the quantity of oil being produced; it is about the cost/effort of producing oil. For most of the history of petroleum production, the cost/effort was decreasing or steady. But now the cost/effort is increasing; That’s an inflection of the second derivative of the cost/effort versus production relationship.
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Everyone wants his parent’s, or friend’s, or partner’s undivided attention — even if many of us, especially children, are getting used to far less. Simone Weil wrote, “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” By this definition, our relationships to the world, and to one another, and to ourselves, are becoming increasingly miserly.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer from, Opinion | How Not to Be Alone – The New York Times
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The key is to use technology in ways that enrich your life, save you time, open new horizons or make new accomplishments possible; Not to simply distract yourself from your life. It’s that simple.
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I blog, therefore I am?
No, the initial impetus was to find a place to permanently – or as permanently as the Internet offers – publish my father’s eulogy: In Memoriam. I started piling on things I thought were interesting, fun, or poignant. I wrote some wall-of-text email messages – actual writing with references and original ideas – in response to Aikido questions, and the blog split into the Scree and Aikido tags. Later, I was toying with the idea of organizing a network and system administration group in the Lehigh Valley, wrote a few things about that, and the blog grew… “Feed me Seymore!” …and grew…
What I didn’t expect was that the blog would become a “read more…” link for my brain. Someone says, “that’s interesting,” or “where did you read/hear/learn that?” …and I go,
Yeah, uh… it was on that web site, the one with the words… Wait, just go to my blog and hit the search box . . .
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The question isn’t who is going to let me;
~ Ayn Rand
It’s who is going to stop me.
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The Chaos
Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear;
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.Pray, console your loving poet,
~ Gerard Nolst Trenité (1870-1946) from, The Chaos – Wikipedia
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!
Just compare heart, hear and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word.
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