http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:42:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So now I'm in Palo Alto. (But that's another post). Guess what supercar I was in front of last night, on Arastradero toward Central Expwy. Go on, guess. A Carrera GT. Life gets stranger and stranger. http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/cars-other-peoples-and-mine-pt-2 dc- And the girls there were lame. dw- Really lame. j- How lame? dc- Imagine the least interesting girl you can think of. Now multiply her by five. dw- And they were in a pack. Not like a pack of wolves. Like a pack of gum. http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/well-thats-a-simile I've had a Dreamhost account for just over a year. I was lucky to catch one of their one-day promos, so I got a deeply discounted rate for the first year. But now the second year is starting, so they sent me a brief email to let me know that ... http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/dreamhost-billing-is-odd I work in downtown La Jolla, right opposite the Ferrari/Maserati dealership. AMGs, M-series, and Porsche Ses are everyday sights. Jaguars are like Toyotas. I'm tired of seeing expensive cars. But sometimes there's something a bit more interesting than usual... One day on the way to work I saw someone picked up ... http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/cars-other-peoples-and-mine It's time for me to start contributing back to this Blogosphere thing. I should also get some practice in technical writing and commentary, and the kinds of critical thinking they encourage. Finally, I should do something to show anyone who finds this site what I'm like professionally, not just personally. To ... http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/new-architecture-post-series This is probably only interesting to the folks who've taken at least one CAT course... David Jackson walked downstairs yesterday to see Peter John and Linda Strauss chillin smokin and drinkin and drumming and strumming on my patio. Sweet. Updated on Monday http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/david-jacksons-facebook-status Danny: "Joe, are you ticklish?" Me: "NO! F--- off!" I promptly get tickled by six people for a cool minute. Rushi: "That was probably the worst response possible." somebody: "There is no really good response." Danny: "Yes: 'I have diarrhea.'" http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/danny-on-being-ticklish One of these is not like the others... No, these are not the ingredients of a wicked new cocktail. We just needed Drano too. http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/going-to-ralphs-the-night-before-sun-god Extract the revision histories of the classes Rushi and I collaborated on out of his school repo, compress them, pipe them over the network onto my laptop, and uncompress. I was on the verge of adding the svnadmin load that would pull it into my repo, but I got lazy. RSi:/home/svn$ ... http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/i-love-unix Why are some programming languages more popular than others? If Java is so lame and (Haskell, Obj-C, Erlang, Smalltalk, whatever) is so great, why is one of them the most used language and nobody's heard of the other? Tamir Khason has the answer: Computer Languages and Facial Hair. Via ... somebody. Forgot ... http://joe.definitelynotsafe.com/computer-languages-and-facial-hair