The things you hear!

Overheard conversation between taxlady and hallo_spacegirl while on the way home:

taxlady:So now you know the trick. Just hold the whole thing in your hand and squeeze gently. If you go jabbing your thumb into it, you'll just bruise it and make it go soft.

Words to live by!

Faw Down Go Boom!

Me soo sleeeepy. Me go beddy now.

Nite Nite.

Wakey?

I'm trying to wake up , but I haven't had any coffee yet. Maybe its done dripping now. *crosses fingers and eyes*

I NEED coffee!

Private Service Announcement.

If anyone has been trying to send me e-mail and having trouble lately, you can use my alternative address of sti@wiznet.ca

That address is working perfectly, and is the place that sti@pooq.com is currently funnelled to as well.

As for what's wrong with sti@pooq.com?  As far as I can tell, nothing right now. Email to me should work fine, but I suspect that there are a LOT of non-conformant mail systems out there, so until DNS caches all reset, there could be intermittant trouble.

Good Writing Can be found on LJ!

... just not here.

I read a post today by labyrinthman in which he talks about how much he likes some writing by his friend koga. Following up the links, I have to agree.

Read and enjoy!

I Quit, I think.

From Kuro5hin:

In 1991 John Taylor Gatto was a thirty-year veteran of the New York school system, and had been honored as both NYC and NY state Teacher of the Year. Then, at the height of his career, he published a provocative essay titled I Quit, I Think in the Wall Street Journal, and shortly thereafter he did indeed quit.

Nine years later Gatto published The Underground History of American Education, a massively researched exposition of his discontent with the education system. Now he's made it available to read online, and it's an eye-opener.

And here's a quote from the beginning of the book:

The shocking possibility that dumb people don’t exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn’t real.

Reference Debugging.

Lately _sps_ has been saying how he want to have a differential debugger that works on an entire CVS tree at once, not just on a single implementation. This allows you to compare what state a new implementation vs an old one would be in at a given point.

Referential debugging is not quite that, but is close.

Alternate Future Transportation.

Here's a pointer to a fascinating article on past predictions on the future of transportation, complete with picture galleries.