August 2011
1 post
Math? Science? Reason? All Liberally Biased!
the thing that drives me the most crazy about all this bickering is that we know what works — it’s not hard. it’s been numerically, mathematically and historically shown over and over again. MATH DOESN’T HAVE TO INVENT STUPID RED HERRING CONSPIRACIES TO POINT OUT SO-CALLED “TRUTH”.
no. not at all.
1 + 1 = 2.
period.
it’s math, people! the...
July 2011
2 posts
“This script, of course, is not entirely new: A half-century ago, when Science...”
– Al Gore: Climate of Denial | Rolling Stone Politics
Italy Trip Photos
for all those folks who are interested, here’s a whole bunch of photos from our trip to italy with our friends karen and shawn.
o.m.g. — FUN!
Getting there and Rome
Florence
Verona (my second favorite place we went)
Venice
Sardinia (lookit the water!)
Sorrento (the most awesome place in all of Italy)
it was two weeks of awesome, but i’m glad to be back in the land of...
May 2011
2 posts
Today's Economic Thought
you’ll pardon me if some economist or technologist has already thunk or disproved this. i’m famous for reinventing the wheel…
here’s the thought that just occurred to me:
technology greatly increases the commoditization of goods and services.
thanks to gossen’s laws, we know that as commodity consumption rises, marginal utility eventually falls to zero and...
Answering Questions About Solar Panels for Your...
there’s been a lot of interest in how we’ve gone about acquiring our solar panels we installed last fall. i figured rather than write the same email over and over and such, i’d write up a quick post that might be helpful to other folks too.
going in, we had (and met) three goals:
No added expense - we didn’t want to be saddled with any extra payments and we assuredly...
April 2011
1 post
“Notice it’s only PSN that gave away all your personal data, not Xbox Live...”
– Geohot: Blame Sony Execs, Not Engineers | Edge Magazine
December 2010
1 post
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;...”
– Calvin Coolidge
October 2010
2 posts
“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and...”
– Robert Frost
I HATE GIT!!!
git sucks.
yes. it sucks like nothing on the planet has ever sucked ever. period. end of story.
let’s see… what are the things you want to be able to do in a version control system?
add files. check!
commit changes. check!
revert to a previous version. uh oh… you can’t do that!!!
it just screws up your checkout. but, thank god i can stream in partial...
September 2010
2 posts
“Information is subject to the same simple economic rules of scarcity as anything...”
– Dave Morin
hahahhahahhahahah…
uh. no.
something that is scarce means, if i have it, you don’t. unfortunately for you, dave, it’s entirely possible that everyone can have the same information.
not. scarce.
m3mnoch.
“There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend...”
– Steven J Ross
August 2010
5 posts
“Because the “free” in that concept means “free from government...”
– Good News, Dr. Laura: Your First Amendment Rights Are Still Yours : Monkey See : NPR
on the first amendment and “freedom of expression.”
Net Neutrality and Incentive
TL;DR version:
Everyone having a wifi device in their pocket will bring back calls for municipal wifi.
People will start demanding the speed and reliability of wifi over the shoddy-in-comparison wireless services.
With the majority of data and voice services going over wifi, current wireless providers will be replaced by device leasing companies, replacing the need for device subsidies and...
“You want a social life, with friends.
A passionate love life and as well
To...”
– Kenneth Koch
Why the Google-Verizon Proposal is Genius for...
hrm. maybe it’s just me, but i’m not really seeing a lot of anything interesting the in google-verizon announcement that concerns me. apparently, unlike about just about every other tech pundit out there. the big concern seems to be net neutrality not applying to “new” internet services.
really. here’s the way i see it:
google’s part of the deal was the...
“When I said we’d play them, I didn’t realize they had everyone coming...”
– Virginia Tech’s Frank Beamer on agreeing to play Boise State
July 2010
1 post
“I’d say it’s hard to do a really good job on anything you...”
– The Top Idea in Your Mind
woot! i’m not the only shower-thinker!
m3mnoch.
June 2010
6 posts
“As Wired noted earlier this week, 750,000 jobs is fully 8 percent of the current...”
– 750,000 lost jobs? The dodgy digits behind the war on piracy
Fascinating Analysis of iPhone App Economics →
There are a few who make several millions, who distort the average number, so it is not true that half of iPhone App Developers earn more, and half less, than $3,050 per year. It is definitely true, that the median will be significantly less than this.
“Well, my specialty is decision-making. How well do people make the decisions...”
– The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 1) - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
apparently, incompetent people lack the skills to recognize their incompetence. bummer.
m3mnoch.
“Civil liberties are not just an ornament, or a quaint American tradition. Civil...”
– 76 Powerful Thoughts from Paul Graham
“June 1 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc has decided not to attach a second blowout...”
– Efforts to End Oil Flow From BP Well Are Over, Coast Guard Says - Bloomberg.com
uh. so bp just gave up? oooooh. that’s not good.
m3mnoch.
April 2010
11 posts
“When people who are Republican or conservative or tea-party or Palin or...”
– Henry Rollins, Cincinnati Magazine
March 2010
10 posts
Not Everyone Using noSQL is a Rails-Lovin'...
so, i guess there’s this guy — ted dziuba — who’s apparently tired of all this nosql talk. i’m thinking to myself “wow, does this guy have an axe to grind or what? did he invent the rdbms or something?”
turns out, what he does is work on backend systems for read-heavy applications. stuff that’s easily aggregated and cached and cubed and slaved...
“Flurry said today that Apple’s iTunes App Store has over 140,000 applications...”
– For Apps, iPhone Bigger Than Facebook Platform – GigaOM
heh. and why that disparity, you ask?
To paraphrase Jerry McGuire, Apple is showing developers the money. Thanks to its one-click payment option, it’s easy for app developers to make money -– whether it’s by selling apps or selling virtual...
February 2010
5 posts
January 2010
8 posts
