I ran into my old UPS delivery guy at a store this morning, which reminded me of this old receipt he left for me one day when I was out. A delivery from “Buddha.”
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This image is from a Harvard.edu article titled, Eight Weeks to a Better Brain.
Sometimes a bear and a wolf can be friends. I don’t know the original source of this story, but you can find more photos at this link. (Update: The original photos may be here at imgur.com.)
I just saw that there is a “Chile & Frijoles Festival” coming up soon in Pueblo, Colorado. And that is not the same as the “Pueblo Green Chile Fest 2015” which I first saw on this Whole Foods Twitter page.
Every time I read a story about DeMarcus Ware I think, “Man, that guy is a good teammate. I wish I had been that way when I played sports.” This story is from the Denver Post.
There’s an interesting debate about technical debt and startups at this Twitter link.
So long, Google, we hardly knew you. And hello, Alphabet. The story is here on the official Google blog.
To install the Python pip command on Debian Linux, a Raspberry Pi in my case, use this command:
sudo apt-get install python-pip
That command works with Python 2. For Python 3 install information see this link.
Note: I used that command so I could install the Python feedparser libary with this pip command:
sudo pip install feedparser
I wish I had known more about Haskell and its influence on Scala before I wrote the Scala Cookbook. I don’t think that knowledge would have helped immensely, but it may have made the Cookbook a little better, maybe two to three percent better, something like that.
One area where more knowledge of Haskell would have helped is in regards to applying arguments to functions, i.e, currying. This page from the book Real World Haskell shows a nice example of how applying arguments to functions in Haskell works.
I was reminded yesterday of what happens to spider webs when scientists give spiders different drugs. That caffeine stuff seems to be a real problem. Here’s a link to the Wikipedia article on the subject. Google “spider webs on drugs” for more information and photos.
Last night I heard someone say, “I don’t mean to sound disingenuous,” and I was a little surprised to learn the last part of this definition: “Disingenuous ~ not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.” I assumed that disingenuous meant something like “not genuine,” so I understand the use of “insincere” in the definition, but there’s a little more to it than that. It made me think that you could use this word to describe Columbo about 95% of the time. (Definition from the Google search results.)
