I don’t have any friends in China anymore. I met Felix in November of 2009. I was in Shenzhen, China doing business and I met a girl. He was her best friend’s boyfriend. “Felix”, she said ( she pronounced Fell-icks), “Speaks good english. You will like him” And I did. Felix was my archetypal Male …
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labors to others, Hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, Have patience and indulgence toward the people, Take off your hat to nothing …
Youtube: Youku: Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and creates a universe for them to describe? Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry. We shoudn’t …
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by crackpipe This is only a small-scale example, but give me a break, Yahoo. How about one line: “Thanks, we’ll pass it on to quality control.”? Security policies help prevent some threats at the cost of slowing down processes and adding additional, potentially annoying, layers. It’s worth it when it’s necessary. So often lately, and …
I was inspired to write my opinion on why San Francisco sucks by this post, written by a Twitter Programmer named Alex Payne. I don’t like San Francisco, because as a city, it’s dishonest. We’ve heard about the free-thinking liberalism, the summer of love, the open-mindedness, the marvelous gay influence on the city’s culture— and …
(If you’re a regular here and don’t know what .htaccess is, lucky you. Move along to another post.) If you’re reading this you’ve broke your wordpress site and you’re pissed. Relax a little bit. Don’t delete anything. Don’t call customer support. I will solve your problem. You may have noticed that a Google search yielded …
1. I’m driving at night, listening to the radio. Rock Music in the summer of 2006 is terrible, I hear myself say. I opt for a homemade mixed CD I made about three weeks ago and have listened to dozens of times. It is also terrible.
2. While trying to be a creative person and be amongst other creative people I realize the word ‘creative’ has no positive value judgment. Most “creative” people are bereft of talent and create yet more food for garbage cans.
So i’ve decided to start blogging because I guess I don’t have much to do. If you’re reading this, you probably don’t either, so we’re both sort of caught in that same net. People always say “so and so needs to get a life”, usually people who say that need to get a life too. …