“Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear.”
~ Ram Dass
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 184)
“You love hard. There is no shame in that.”
(apparently from the book, The Lawman’s Surprise Family)
*leaving a doctor’s office*
Nurse: “Aren’t you forgetting something?”
Me (flashing back to past failed relationships): “I love you?”
Nurse: “Um, no, the papers you brought in.”
Me: “Oh, yeah, thanks.”
A friend made a surprise trip into town this weekend, and when I started having raccoon eyes and breaking out in hives, she was more than ready to stab me with an EpiPen or two:
“Now?”
“How about now?”
“Maybe now?”
:)
Simon Peyton Jones, writing about “Respect” in the Haskell community. For the rest of his post, see this mail.haskell.org link.
I didn’t like The Rolling Stones for most of my life, but I’ve started listening to them lately. This is a quiet song called, Fool to Cry, that seems to fit my mood of late:
“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”
Here’s a photo from the Fairbanks, Alaska, “arctic cam” on this day last year (September 25, 2015).
Today’s song of the day is, You Want It Darker, by 82-year-old Leonard Cohen:
“I don’t know what love is, but I might love you. Probably love you.”
New England is now 14-5 without Tom Brady.
By contrast, Indianapolis went 2-14 with Peyton Manning’s backups.
“Our truest life is in our dreams awake.”
~ Thoreau
This song is called Dream Awake, and its by The Frames. I don’t particularly like the first two minutes of it, but after that it becomes more my tempo. And you’re really cool if you know how I know of this song:
“Mast cells tend to hang out at the body’s environmental interfaces (to best serve their defensive role).”
That’s a short but very important quote from the book, Never Bet Against Occam: Mast Cell Activation Disease and Chronic Illness.
Do you have dry, itchy, gritty eyes? Ever have a dry cough, where it feels like no matter how much or how hard you cough, you can’t get rid of the itchy feeling in your throat? Or how about itchy skin? All of these are your body’s “environmental interfaces,” where mast cells are trying to protect your body. (These are also symptoms of mast cell activation disease.)
Doctor says I probably have a genetic mutation, like a Ninja Turtle or the X-Men, but with currently unknown, latent superpowers.
Also, “mutant” is not the preferred nomenclature. “Posthuman,” please.
A Facebook post from September 21, 2010: “I broke out my slide rule, cranked out some logarithms, and learned the 1964 earthquake was over 1,000,000 times more powerful than yesterday's 4.9. I can’t even fathom that number (no tsunami pun intended). Oh, and reporters quoting the use of the ‘Richter Scale’ are just using a convenient lie.” (See Moment Magnitude Scale.)
“The plural of anecdote is not data.”
Doctors have a good theory on why my body is throwing GoUnconscious exceptions. Debugging starts tomorrow. Hope to be writing again soon. :)
“How do we convince people that in programming, simplicity and clarity — in short, what mathematicians call “elegance” — are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?”
Google released Android Studio 2.2 yesterday. Here’s a link to the announcement and details on the Android Developers Blog.
Today’s song of the day is We Are The World, by USA for Africa: