Contents tagged with Personal
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All nighters...
I've started listening to podcasts from the PBS series NerdTv and today I was listening to a conversation with Max Levchin, one of the co-founders of Paypal. who had just been through his third all-nighter - that week. He said it was not unusual for him to do this, and some people like all-nighters and some don't. (An all-nighter is when you work through the night on some problem, or coding thing - in Microserfs it was referred to as a "Trip To Australia".)
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EPIC
Joel sent me this link: http://www.broom.org/epic/
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You want to build your own PC next time? Make it small....
This is too cool. There are a ton of projects on this website about building small PC's, but this one was sent to me in particular. I was fascinated by the process, but what he did at the end of the project seemed to be the biggest trick of all.
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Flame Warriors
There are 10 groups of people in the world, those who blog and those who don't....
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What Monty Python character are you?
I am the rabbit, with “nasty, big, pointy teeth!”
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How cold is it?
It's so cold here in Manitoba that one of the towns nearby had its natural gas supply line freeze up:
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ThinkGeek.Com has an RSS feed!
ThinkGeek.Com has a "What's New" RSS feed.
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Matrix Spoof Video
Featuring Steve “Developers, developers, developers, developers!” Ballmer. (you gotta be a geek to understand this one): http://www.only4gurus.com/v2/preview.asp?ID=4551
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Christmas quote
My wife sent me this quote:
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Forklift training video
Warning: there's a lot of blood and gore in this video. And there may be bad language too, I have no idea, because it's in German.