It’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap, we gotta get out while we’re young ... not sure why I thought grocery shopping would be a good idea today.
(Happy Holidays)
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 176)
Writing as someone who likely has Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) and who has also looked into histamine intolerance, it was surprising to see the headlines in this image being “news” in 2016. MCAS was officially designated as a disease in 2007, and for anyone who knows about it, there’s nothing new about this. Cured foods are well known to be a trigger for people with mast cell issues, meaning that eating cured foods is known to trigger mast cells to release histamine (i.e., to degranulate).
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ~ Lao-tzu
“It also includes about five gas station stops.” ~ Alvin
(A note about driving from Colorado to Illinois,
December, 2013.)
Diary entry from December 21, 2010, 1:45am, Wasilla, Alaska:
“Sitting outside with Jack Daniels and a few neighbors. Lunar eclipse is just starting, wish I had that better camera lens now.”
From “Winter Solstice Day, 2011,” two moose working things out in Palmer, Alaska.
O’Reilly has an article titled Scaling Scala. The article talks about Scala, Akka, Spark, Kafka, Dotty, Cats vs Scalaz, and more.
The Wall Street Journal has an article titled, Microsoft, rebooted, emerges as a tech leader. Personally I’ve ignored Microsoft since around 2005, but some of their recent decisions seem better than they have been in years (IMHO).
I don’t know how legitimate they are, but National Popular Vote, Inc. is a 501(c)(4) non-profit corporation whose specific purpose is to study, analyze and educate the public regarding its proposal to implement a nationwide popular election of the President of the United States.
I haven’t done any HTML5-specific web programming in a while, so although I know many of the HTML5 tags, I don’t know them all. Here’s a link to the HTML Element Reference page on w3schools.com.
Taking care of others can be done with two very different motivations. With one, we care for others in an unhealthy way, seemingly sacrificing ourselves, but really acting out of fear or attachment.
People who are attached to praise, reputation, relationships, and as forth and who fear losing these may seemingly neglect their own needs to take care of others. But in fact they are protecting themselves in an unproductive way. Their care comes not from genuine love, but from a self-centered attempt to be happy that is actually making them more unhappy.
~ A quote from Buddhism for Beginners, by Thubten Chodron
Here’s a link to a wired.com article, Quantum Gravity Research Could Unearth the True Nature of Time.
Here’s a link to an article titled, Could you get a job at Apple? It depends on your answers to these 25 questions.
A Facebook post from when I lived in Alaska in 2010.
Clear skies tonight, bitter cold, with a chance of Northern Lights.
~ weather in wasilla, alaska, december 13, 2010
Dateline December 7, 2016: I just released 21 new lessons of my book, Functional Programming in Scala, Simplified. See that link for more information.
Thompson Pass is the snowiest place in Alaska. It averages 551” of snow per year, and received 974” one year.
Hopefully at some point this will come out as an article, but right now it’s this tweet with some Q&A afterwards.
Northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, they recorded -52 degrees Fahrenheit this morning. Brrr...
Ender’s Game isn’t a “feel good” movie, but for what it is — a science fiction war movie — it’s one of the smartest movies of the last five years, with terrific special effects.
“The power of karma is strong in everyone, stupid or clever. When that force is broken, it becomes possible to understand Zen.”
From the book, The Way of True Zen, by Taisen Deshimaru (pictured).
(A lot of Buddhist quotes remind me of Star Wars, and vice-versa.)
