Kikkoman

Good article on phone screening.

Which is very interesting. I’ve been nosing around the tutorials and bumped up against this concept but couldn’t name it.

What is interesting is that, this is the first languange that I might actually use that has a mix of functional and procedural execution. Functional languages seem to be the new hotness now for their ability to be distributed across multiple processors.

As a “working” programmer the only functional language I use regularly is SQL. :-/

Election night I got home early-ish to watch the returns. While a great night overall, it started out slow. That and I wanted to play Little Big Planet.

So I’ve made the first “productive” use of any of my TV’s Picture-in-Picture capabilities; news talking heads in a small picture and Little Big Planet on the big screen. The trick was that the TV could output the sound from the “smaller” picture.

Watching Obama win stirred a combination of pride, excitement, and historical significance. The nature and strength of the emotions stirred was similar to the feelings I got from the Pathfinder landing and exploring Mars.

It was between my sophomore and junior years and college, and I was back on Guam for the summer. I remember being glued the computer, downloading the “live” images of Mars from NASA’s website over our piddly 56k modem. Truly amazing.

Both of those events made me proud of mankind, excited about the future, and awed at the accomplishment.

Inspired by this article from Lifehacker, I set about suspending the cable modem, router, switch, and printer adapter from the underside of my desk.

This also provides much better wireless coverage / speed for the first floor of the house.