Looking for Scala web frameworks, I came across the following projects:
“Lift”:http://liftweb.net/
“Scalatra”:https://github.com/scalatra/scalatra (Sinatra-like)
“Pinky”:https://github.com/pk11/pinky
“Spiffy”:https://github.com/mardambey/spiffy
“Bowler”:http://bowlerframework.org/
It’s not a comprehensive list, and I think some of them may actually
be moribund, but at least lift and scalatra seem active.
I wouldn’t claim to have read everything Greg Bear ever wrote, but I’ve ready a lot of his books. Generally I have found them intriguing, or at least compelling. Unfortunately, _Hull Zero Three_ just didn’t do it for me. I read through to the end, but it felt more like work than pleasure.
A shame.
Incomparable:
bq. Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Denounce the government and embrace
the flag. Hope to live in that free
republic for which it stands.
Give your approval to all you cannot
understand.
“Go read all of it”:http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC30/Berry.htm.
The only sad thing is that this is a cross-stitch pattern, not a T-shirt, otherwise I would totally be buying this.
“Check it out”:http://sneakykitty.com/index.php/2009/02/22/cross-stitch-fillerbunny-and-cthulhu/hello-cthulhu/.
Runs through how to set things up so that you can easily put together a number of packages for different distributions, architectures, etc.
“Go read it”:http://www.davromaniak.eu/index.php?post/2011/03/03/The-ultimate-package-building-system.
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The one thing the video glosses over is that there’s no way that you would ever do this in real life, since you were almost guaranteed to have had to reinstall Windows at some point.
“Heard it from Chet”:http://mischeathen.com/2011/03/im-having-nerd-nostalgia-palpitations.html
“Oh, my, it just doesn’t get better than this.”:http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2011/02/pearls-before-swine.html.
I don’t generally hang around on Reddit, but this thread is full of useful info about where to get good grown-up clothes that’ll last. I think it’s pretty credible because I, too, have had insanely good experiences with Brooks Brothers no-iron shirts.
“Give it a browse”:http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/f9fa7/im_a_man_and_need_nice_work_clothes_wtf_do_i_do/.
I just ran across a mention of my name in the Changelog to memcached, from 2004. I had forgotten ever contributing anything. In fact, I was having a hard time figuring out what I would have been working on in 2004 that would have been using memcached.
Mind you, I remembered after a moment or two, but it took some serious thinking.
The interesting thing is to realize that I was apparently a fairly early adopter–the entry for my bug report is almost exactly one year after the first entry in the changelog.
Julien Danjou talks about how its ability to do partial checkouts on large quantities of files makes it easy to keep a subset of music on his laptop while the majority stays on his server.
“Give it a read”:http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2011.html#Handling_my_music_collection_with_git-annex.
somehow the Wachowski Brothers succeeded in making a movie of _Speed Racer_ that was even more creepy and inexplicable than the original cartoon series.
What I don’t understand is why they thought they would ever make any money off of it.
Has the capability to test a number of systems that we use regularly. Worth remembering.
“Check it out”:http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/
An alternative to the moribund and largely unmaintained BBDB codebase, using Org-Mode files as the storage location for email contacts.
“More things from Julien”:http://julien.danjou.info/org-contacts.html
“Here is a link”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters_of_Rock#1983_2 to the Wikipedia entry for the 1983 German Monsters of Rock concert, which was my first ever concert.
I have vague memories of _Whitesnake_, but couldn’t even tell you what they played.
_Blue Oyster Cult_ was what I was there to see, though I remember it being somewhat anticlimactic–I think I knew a lot less of their music than I had thought. I would probably enjoy it more now.
I remember enjoying _Thin Lizzy_ a lot, though it’s only in retrospect that I am glad I saw them in their last show with Phil Lynott.
I remember one _Saxon_ song, but I won’t name it for fear of dying of embarrassment.
I have remember “Paradise by Dashboard Light” only because the female performer ended up very scantily clad. John Scalzi recently tweeted wondering what a collaboration between Jim Steinman and Philip Glass would be like–I can tell you it would likely make my head explode.
_Motorhead_. I am sad to realize that I have seen Lemmy in the flesh and have no memory of it. Maybe that’s appropriate, though.
I suspect that I left before _Twisted Sister_ made it on stage, and I don’t have any idea who the hell _Cheeta_ were.
Thanks to my dad for dropping us off and picking us up afterward.
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Ah, the things we can’t see. A number of silly things filmed on a ridiculously high-speed video camera, and then slowed down so we can perceive the things that normally see continuous.
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You know, I haven’t seen any ukelele covers that have been less than respectful of their source material. Sometimes they are obviously showing off technical acumen–there’s a couple of places in this video that might qualify–but it all seems done with a lot of affection for the original.
An interesting point about the thoughtlessness of some of our legal forms–the silliness of standard boilerplate suggesting that Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle wasn’t connected to actual events and persons…right after many pages detailing exactly how it was.
“Noted by Yglesias”:http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2011/01/strange-disclaimer/
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Ummmm…yeah.
The “Axe Cop”:http://axecop.com/ comic strip is deeply, deeply weird–as you might expect given the author is 5. The movie is astonishingly good at capturing that weirdness–that sense of things just happening one after another with no actual, err, plot–and even a lot of the visual style of the original.
Look at it this way, it couldn’t possibly be worse than the upcoming _Green Lantern_ film is likely to be.
It doesn’t surprise me in the least to find that Ayn Rand abandoned her principles when the time came that they were truly tested–many, perhaps most, people would do the same.
The thing that annoys me is that she, and her followers, would actively seek to deny others the same option of which she took advantage, justifying it with a “philosophy” suited only to tedious jeremiads masquerading as novels.
“Read it and weep”:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-ford/ayn-rand-and-the-vip-dipe_b_792184.html.
I still can’t read this short bit of rumination without feeling shivers down my spine. I can’t speak it aloud without a hitch in my voice. “Go read it all”:http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2009/06/wanderlustwarning-sign.html, and think about how anything–[*anything*]!–can challenge you to dig deeper.
bq. Strip away pretension, propriety, insecurity, fear and the bills you have to pay.
bq. A foundation principle of creative thinking & problem solving is this: _unless we are able to hold two contradictory positions simultaneously, solutions will escape us_.
— “Robert Fripp”:http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?artist=&show=&member=3&entry=18743
Love, grief and money cannot be concealed.
— Patrick O’Brian, in _H.M.S. Surprise_
bq. Awareness is a more powerful tool than effort.
— Hannah Byrum
but if you’ve ever worked on contract “this will resonate”:http://www.dump.com/2010/12/13/the-vendor-client-relationship-in-real-world-situations-video/. Whether you will want to laugh or cry will probably depend on whether you’re still doing so.
bq. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
— Philip K. Dick (unverified)
I mean, seriously, “how could there not be”:http://julien.danjou.info/google-maps-el.html?
You’ve probably seen “this video”:http://www.hs.fi/thickbox/video/1135259206031?KeepThis=true already, but if not, check it out. The speed with which the beach goes from “nice day” to “black as night” is pretty intimidating.
Incidentally, I already had a category for “weather”. WTF?
I went to re-read _Dune_, and ended up re-reading _Dune: Messiah_ as well, and picked up a couple of quotes I wanted to hold onto:
bq. It was mostly sweet, and you were the sweetest of all.
bq. We’re all in this beauty together!
If so, I give you, “Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock-Friends-Pie”:http://blog.nerdchic.net/archives/397/