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Douglas Crockford's The Department of StyleQuarterly Royalty Statement
Format Net Units Net Sales Royalty % Net Royalty -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- 3rd Party Translation 2 1,850.00 25.0000 462.50 Book 4,810 63,744.6
Posted: Oct. 3, 2008 04:13 PM
Lipstick on a Pig
John McCain says he's about change, too, and so I guess his whole angle is, "Watch out George Bush." Except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics. "We're rea
Posted: Sep. 10, 2008 01:34 PM
Qualification
Who is qualified to be president? If you think of the job as being the executive of the world's largest enterprise, then you would not want a senator. The biggest thing a senator manages is a state reelection campaign. Instead you would want
Posted: Sep. 9, 2008 02:20 PM
Harmony
Brendan Eich compared me to Yoda, and then to Gandalf. More recently, Mark Miller compared me to Henry Fonda because the meetings of the TC39 (the group that maintains the ECMAScript standard) played a lot like a prison theater production of 12 Angry
Posted: Aug. 13, 2008 08:04 PM
Bats!
In 1980 I was working at Basic/Four Corporation. Someone I was working with had seen a game at a conference in which a player is chased around a field of electrified fences by deadly vampire bats. From that description I wrote a bats game in
Posted: Aug. 11, 2008 07:25 PM
A Terrorist Fist Jab
I like the New Yorker's Obama cover. I chuckled. I got the joke. I'm not angry, nor am I offended. It could have been drawn better. Maybe they were in a hurry.
Posted: Jul. 16, 2008 11:25 PM
Character Sets
In the early days of programming languages, before there were standardized character sets, each programming language would define its own character set. Some languages had arrows instead of = for assignment, which really makes much more sens
Posted: Jul. 11, 2008 12:19 PM
Las Vegas, Las Vegas
I was in Las Vegas recently. Bruce Vilanch was on permanent display at the east skybridge entrance of New York New York. Spooky.
Posted: Jul. 9, 2008 01:56 PM
Sleep Apnea
Lucy had a sleep test a couple of weeks ago and they found that she has what they call moderate sleep apnea. She is supposed to go back Monday night to find out if, and at what level, a CPAP machine might help. She is concerned abo
Posted: Jul. 5, 2008 06:35 PM
Telephone
I have a telephone instrument on my desk. I rarely use it. Most of the calls I get are recruiters, evil telemarketers, and wrong numbers. I mostly communicate with people using email, im, and the old reliable f2f. The office phone is as usef
Posted: Jul. 2, 2008 11:31 AM
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