Are you familiar with Sun Tzu?

“Are you familiar with Sun Tzu?” (Michael Clarke Duncan, The Finder)

By Alvin Alexander on May 6, 2013

Ego talking

My ego talking: Some times I wish people could see how much work goes into making something seem simple or easy.

Submitted by alvin on May 5, 2013 - 10:38pm

Carlos Marmol - Execute one pitch at a time

“I think the biggest thing for Carlos is his concentration of executing a pitch,” Cubs pitching coach Chris Bosio said before Sunday’s series finale at Wrigley Field. “I think when Carlos gets in trouble -- along with the rest of the guys -- is when they get going too fast. And (Saturday) was a classic case of that. You’ve got to slow down and visualize the pitch and execute the pitch. He is totally capable of doing that.”

From http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/chi-chicago-cubs-carl...

Submitted by alvin on May 5, 2013 - 7:09pm

May the Fourth Be With You (2013)

"(George) Lucas said that the real secret to overcoming those long odds was a combination of a fondness for building things, an obsession for not letting others get in the way of his goals, and an unwillingness to care what the rest of the world thinks.”

From this CNet article.

Submitted by alvin on May 4, 2013 - 2:13pm

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. - Carlos Castaneda

“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”

~ Carlos Castaneda

Submitted by alvin on May 3, 2013 - 2:36pm

Scala - Thinking of functions as transformers

When you write Scala code like this:

val x = List.range(1, 10)
val evens = x.filter((i: Int) => i % 2 == 0)

the following portion of the code is a function literal (also known as an anonymous function):

(i: Int) => i % 2 == 0

When reading this code, it helps to think of this symbol:

By Alvin Alexander on May 11, 2013

How to run a Unix shell script from the Mac Finder

If you ever want to create a Unix shell script that you can give to someone else so they can double-click it and run it through the Mac OS X Finder, all you have to do is (a) name the file with the ".command" extension and (b) make it executable. So, just name your Mac/Unix script like this:

ShowProcesses.command

Then make it executable, like this:

chmod +x ShowProcesses.command

You can also leave out the usual #!/bin/sh part on the first line.

By Alvin Alexander on May 3, 2013

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement.

“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.”

~ Winston Churchill

By Alvin Alexander on May 2, 2013

Create like a God, Command like a king, Work like a slave (quote)

Create like a god.
Command like a king.
Work like a slave.

~ Constantine Brancusi

Submitted by alvin on May 2, 2013 - 5:01pm

Bleeding Cubbie Blue

Woo hoo hoo,
eighteen hours with nothing to do,
I’m watching WGN,
and bleedin’ Cubbie Blue.

Submitted by alvin on May 2, 2013 - 2:09am
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