The ongoing conversation
I recently read a blog from the Wall Street Journal, “12 Debt Myths That Trip Up Consumers“. It includes many great tips, leading with the best: “Avoid debt.” But then toward the end, it stumbles badly with this one: Mortgage-interest payments can be deducted on your tax return, which can save you a bundle. The […]
Quizgle is live! Quizgle is a puzzle game where you have to guess the words that were used to generate the displayed search results. At a game of five rounds, you can share your result to see if your friends can beat your score. I had a lot of fun working on the database side of […]
Inspired by this comment, I decided to come up with a chess variant for RoboRally. I wanted to keep the programming aspect of RoboRally and the multiple pieces & capture-the-king goal of chess intact. Programming a “side” of 16 bots would be too daunting, but a king bot and a handful of piece bots (using chess […]
Neil deGrasse Tyson was a special guest at the Nutter Center last night, and my wife and I took the kids out to see him. The teens were skeptical about the event, since it meant giving up one of this week’s iterations of their League of Legends event at Epic Loot, but they enjoyed Dr. Tyson’s […]
Philosophy is one of those areas of study that people outside the field have a hard time finding applications for. It enables the basis of logic, and so underpins all of computer programming, so computer geeks should have at least a subconscious grasp of the fundamentals of philosophy. In theory anyway. My own visceral feelings […]
An orc cook goes to the orc butcher and asks for some prime elf steaks. The butcher says “It’s not ‘prime’ these days. Elfmeat went to ‘good’, ‘plusgood’, ‘doubleplusgood’.” “Oh. Okay, gimme some plusgood elf steaks and some doubleplusgood pixie wings.” “Pixie wings are now grade A, B, or C.” “Erk. Gimme grade-A pixie wings. […]