This is a photo from the drive I once took from Fairbanks, Alaska all the way up to Deadhorse and Prudhoe Bay.
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One of my nieces got me this “Straight Outta Cookies” Cookie Monster t-shirt for Christmas one year. For a guy like me who once got paid in cookies to build a website, it’s a great gift. :)
“Today I will live in the moment ... unless it’s unpleasant, in which case I’ll eat a cookie.”
~ Cookie Monster
(I don’t know the original source of this photo,
so I haven’t linked to any site.)
“Don’t worry, it’s just marketers collecting our personal data so they can create more relevant advertising for us.”
I normally don’t like to have sales on my books, but the short story is that the PDF version of Functional Programming, Simplified is currently on sale for $15.
I forgot all about this, but at some point I posted large photos of my 2007 drive from Fairbanks, Alaska to Prudhoe Bay. As you can see in those photos, it’s dirt roads all the way.
This dinosaur Make A Wish birthday card reminds me of a dream I once had.
“Gonna have that song stuck in my head”
~ from the Tundra Comics 2019 calendar
“They say dreams are the windows of the soul. Take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.”
~ Chris Stevens, Northern Exposure
A “Northern Exposure” coffee mug, with a Tundra Comics design.
“Sometimes the mind ... for reasons we don’t fully understand, just goes to the store for a quart of milk.”
(Or for ‘december,’ in my case.)
(Quote from Dr. Joel Fleischman, Northern Exposure)
A wee bit of cause and effect:
I may never have lived in Alaska
if I didn’t first go there on vacation.
I may have never gone to Alaska on vacation
if Colorado wasn’t on fire in 2002.
I may not have thought to go to Alaska in 2002
if I hadn’t discovered Northern Exposure ~1996.
I may never have discovered Northern Exposure
if I didn’t quit a job I didn’t like in 1995.
I may never have discovered Northern Exposure if a tv channel
that doesn’t exist today hadn’t aired it back then.
This keeps going back in time until I was born (or before then),
but that’s the basic idea.
I don’t always get sick, but when I do ... it’s nice to find other people who are going through what I’ve been going through, and they still have a sense of humor about it. If you have a Pinterest account, this “My Mastocytosis” page is great.
I think I originally saw this “kindness changes the brain” quote in a pschologytoday.com article titled The Positive Psychology of Kindness.
I call this image, “Purple sky, with sunrise in the side view mirror.”
Farewell! If ne’er I see thee more,
Though distant calls my flight impel,
I shall not less thy grace adore,
So friend forever fare thee well.
Farewell, alas, the tragic sound,
Has many a tender bosom torn,
While desolation spread around,
Deserted friendship left to mourn.
Alas! and if we sure must part,
Far separated long to dwell,
I leave thee with a broken heart,
So friend forever fare thee well.
~ part of a poem i heard on Northern Exposure
Scala problem: You want to be able to read configuration files that are written in the Lightbend “Config” file format.
Solution
Lightbend — initially named Typesafe — created a configuration file format named HOCON, which stands for, “Human-Optimized Config Object Notation.” As an example, a small HOCON configuration file looks like this: