I have always said that humans aren’t smart enough to know what global warming (climate change) will result in. With warmer waters in the Pacific Ocean off of California stretching up to Alaska, toxic algae blooms have “severe consequences for the Pacific seafood industry, coastal tourism and marine ecosystems.” A short version of the story is here on ktuu.com.
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 228)
Java FAQ: How do I initialize/populate a static List (ArrayList, LinkedList) in Java?
Java 9
When you’re using Java 9 and newer — Java 11, 14, 17, etc. — you can use this concise syntax to populate a static List:
This is a paragraph from an article titled, Buddhism in the Internet Age, by Vincent Horn, lead geek of the Buddhist Geeks.
Whenever this book Grokking Algorithms comes out, it looks like it might be good.
In what may be my last John Mellencamp post for a while, at his concert Friday evening I learned about his collaboration with Stephen King and T Bone Burnett to create a “supernatural musical” titled Ghost Brothers of Darkland County. He said that he and Stephen King had been working on it for 15 years. (They thought originally it would be easy, but it was not.) The album includes performances by Sheryl Crow, Elvis Costello, Rosanne Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Meg Ryan, and many more. It looks like the tour is over, but it featured Gina Gershon and Billy Burke, among others. There’s a trailer about the movie here on YouTube.
Ronda Rousey on being “scared of fighting,” from this si.com article.
If you’ve ever been to the Chautauqua area in Boulder, Colorado and thought about renting one of those cabins for a while, here you go. Image from the Chautauqua Facebook page.
A quote from Troy Tulowitzki in this Denver Post article: “There are times when you don’t quite feel like yourself,” he said, “but you still find a way to grind through it and have effective ABs. When I was younger, I don’t think I could have done that.”
The Dalai Lama is coming to Boulder, Colorado in October, 2015. Here a few paragraphs from the event’s website:
“His Holiness describes his three primary commitments as promoting human values such as compassion, forgiveness, tolerance, contentment, and discipline; promoting religious harmony with respect for one another’s traditions; and acting as a free spokesperson in the Tibetan struggle for justice.”
