“Coding, like writing, is a mechanical act.”

Got my 2-year-old to eat persimmon! I’ll consider that a win.

This insightful post explains much about my relationship with traditional media:

“…somehow the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The world, to me: “You’re out of work, you need a job.”

Me: “What is work anyway? Can we take it from first principles?”

World: *facepalm*

Writing a little Clojure code today… feels nice to get back to it!

iPhoto (for Mac) is so incredibly slow. There’s no excuse for this. I can’t wait for it to be replaced by the new iOS-inspired Photos app.

Great post on data processing:

“Command-line tools can be 235x faster than your Hadoop cluster”

So my daughter woke up at 6:30 this morning & I managed to get her back to sleep for another hour. Is there a medal for that? A merit badge?

Any establishment playing a song from The Crow soundtrack has my respect and enthusiasm.

If you use “astounding” in the title of your job posts, you’re going to attract some astounding assholes.

I really enjoyed The Martian by Andy Weir when I read it last year — turns out it has a great backstory!

TIL: there’s a street in Manhattan named “Little West 12th Street”. Love it.

TIL: houses can suffer cascading failures like any other kind of system.