October 2006 Archives
There's really no introduction appropriate for this... here it goes.
[Donald] gods damn she has influence...
[Gini Fan] because her mullet is holy
[Gini Fan] what part of that don't people understand
[Donald] Thank you... that's going into My comic
[Gini Fan] sam touched it when he went on a date with her and he is now on the cpc and the sc of cyf
[Donald] Gini Courter's mullet is Holy... When she dies, and she is elevated to Saint Gini of the UUs, the remains of her mullet will be a UU Holy Relic, kept in a gilded coffin at 25 Beacon St.
[Gini Fan] it is
[Gini Fan] the rat tail can cure leprosy
[Donald] St. Gini, Patron Saint of the UU Laity
[Gini Fan] no, patron saint of GA
I was looking about for some information on the hymn "Rank by Rank" and stumbled upon Rev. Patrick O'Neill's phenominal sermon from the Service of the Living Tradtition 2005, as published in the Church of the Larger Fellowship's newsletter.
Happy reading!
Scott Adams of Dilbert fame was diagnosed with Spasmodic Dysphonia 18 months ago. As far as he knows, he's the first person to overcome it to the degree he has. Read on.
"Nuts," said the Queen. "If I had 'em, I'd be king."
"Balls" said the prince. "I've got 'em, and I'm STILL not king!"
"Shit!" said the King, and 30,000 peasants squatted and strained, for in those days the word of the king was law.
The software development world desperately needs better writing. If I have to read another 2000 page book about some class library written by 16 separate people in broken ESL, I’m going to flip out. If I see another hardback book about object oriented models written with dense faux-academic pretentiousness, I’m not going to shelve it any more in the Fog Creek library: it’s going right in the recycle bin. If I have to read another spirited attack on Microsoft’s buggy code by an enthusiastic nine year old Trekkie on Slashdot, I might just poke my eyes out with a sharpened pencil. Stop it, stop it, stop it!
And that’s why when Gary Cornell suggested this book, I leapt at the idea. It would be a chance to showcase some of the best writing about software from the past year “or so.” The original idea was to make it an annual, so the volume you’re holding would be “The Best Software Writing of 2004,” but there were a bunch of great articles from 2003 that we wanted to include, and we were afraid bookstores would return it at the end of the year if there was a date in the title. I solicited nominations from the faithful readers of my website, Joel on Software, and selected the final stories myself, so the blame for what’s included and what isn’t included is entirely my own, but full credit for really incredible writing in a field that doesn’t normally get any goes to the contributors.
This is going on Donald's Wish List.
I've not been updating as I should. There's been a lot going on.
The Church of the Younger Fellowship is running elections for its Steering Committee, which I'm running in.
I've resigned from the GA Planning Committee, for variety of reasons I'm not going into at the moment.
The UUA has a badge for UU bloggers: http://www.uua.org/programs/online/#bloggers
Elf Only Inn is updating again. Yay for another amusing web comic.
I realised I never posted that My car was found mere hours after I posted that it was stolen. It's still partially broken, but it gets me to and from work, which is all I need it for.
I'm also working on repairing my moped. I want it ready in the spring, engine completely cleaned, gas tank de-rusted, and entire body repainted.
I suppose that's all for now. I'm working on major backend overhaul on the blog, and moving it to the same software suite I'm using for UUHosting.Net, so that's taking some of My blogging brain power.
A lot has been going on in My life, much of it less than pleasant. Today I needed to take a walk while I was on a phone call, and ended up coming down to Bombadill's for a latte. A few hours, and many paragraphs later, A singer/songwriter has set up and is performing.
Spencer Michaud, thank you.
