It seems to me that media sensationalism makes too big a deal out of most terrorist attacks in America. Of course an attack on the Boston marathon is extremely high profile and scary so it receives a lot of coverage.
I think we have a lot of preventable problems that aren’t as exciting as terrorism but are far more deadly.… read more “Preventable Deaths”
I found a fun thread on Reddit with jokes that you should never repeat to anyone. Here are a few that are less offensive (and yes, I realize these are all still highly offensive!):
Around 3 years ago, I wrote a blog post about World of Warcraft vs Real Life. I have been thinking about this topic of real life as an mmorpg (massively multiplayer online role playing game for those of you non-nerds) more recently.
It’s been roughly 6 years now since I played serious computer games and got started with “Real Life”.… read more “Real Life as an MMORPG”
A very important question to ask yourself is what are the professions of your friends? Study after study has shown that who your friends are, what they do for a living, and what their habits are will have an enormous influence over you and your behaviors.
Here is a list of some of my friends professions:
Who are your friends and what are their professions?… read more “What Are Your Friends Professions?”
I spent the weekend learning more about Python on Udacity.com. I went through Unit 6 which was all about recursive procedures in Python.
A recursive function is basically a function that calls itself. An example of this would be:
def factorial(n):
if n == 0:
return 1
else:
return n * factorial(n - 1)
Recursion is great because it allows you to write code that is much simpler and cleaner than if you had to write the same code using if/while procedures.
This article makes me want to buy bit coins.
I just saw Jurassic Park IMAX 3D and loved it. The movie conversion from 2d to 3d was very thorough and well done. Made a great old movie fun and new again. Go see it!
I have been involved in a number of very frustrating negotiations lately: