Happy Father’s Day to the monster who’s been a real role model and inspiration in my life.
Slightly more seriously, you don’t have to be related, male, or even human to be a great role model. ;)
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Inspired by watching Bridesmaids recently, today’s song of the day is Release Me, by Wilson Phillips, one of my favorite songs back in the day.
If you’re reading this, that means the DNS change for alvinalexander.com has propagated to your location. I just moved this website to a new server and the latest version of Drupal on June 18, 2016. If anything is wrong with it, well, that’s gonna be my fault. I’ll fix broken things as fast as I can. :)
A small black bear got its head stuck in a coffee can and wandered around the roads in Tok, Alaska for a while before the Fish & Game people were able to rescue it. The video looks really sad, but the story has a happy ending. Here’s the story at adn.com.
I like this chart/infographic from espn.com that shows the “game flow” for Game 5 of the 2016 NBA Finals. Without watching the game you can get a feel for the ebb and flow of the game, and how it got away from Golden State.
It reminds me of trying to get a software project live, where the developers are knocking out tasks and bugs (and if the project isn’t in control, other forces are trying to add new tasks, which I always compared to moving the finish line in a race).
I have been fortunate to know a few dogs that look like this one. :) Here’s a link to the original tweet.
This is a great quote about writing as a team. It comes from Michael Piller’s book, Fade In.
As I mentioned yesterday, the book is not available in print, but you can find a PDF or Word doc of it on the internet. Mr. Piller died in 2005, and for some reason the book was never printed, but was released electronically. If it was in print, I’d buy a copy, as I suspect many Star Trek fans would.
Apparently today is National Freelancers Day, which I found out about when I see this cartoon by Gemma Correll on Facebook.
These “What if” questions about each programming language are pretty funny. The C#, “What if everything was like Java, but different?” captures my feeling about that language, and the Perl description is pretty accurate, too. (The image comes from this nixCraft Twitter page.)
