Archives for 2017 (Notes)

• Dec 17, 2017, 6:12 PM -05:00

  Porgs look pretty tasty, to be honest.
• Dec 11, 2017, 10:12 AM -05:00

  I saw like one YouTube video on how to make the perfect omelette and now I'm obsessed with making the perfect omelette. The perfect omelette has Boursin in it, apparently. I can't say that I completely disagree.
• Nov 24, 2017, 8:11 AM -05:00

  Is there a word for the suspicion a programmer feels when something they wrote works on the first try?
• Sep 13, 2017, 12:09 PM -04:00

  Stuff Desmond learned: red vermouth is actually made (usually) from white wine and gets its color from other ingredients.
• Apr 22, 2017, 5:04 PM -04:00

  St Germain and Suze make a good combination.
• Apr 22, 2017, 5:04 PM -04:00

  Reading "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" feels like I'm reading, at time, a novelization of "The Revenge of the Sith"
• Apr 17, 2017, 9:04 PM -04:00

  I still have EDO RAM in little static protector baggies in my office cabinet.
• Apr 7, 2017, 6:04 PM -04:00

  Desmond's tasting notes for Strega: a less burny version of Chartreuse.
• Mar 27, 2017, 4:03 PM -04:00

  God deliver me from Perl
• Mar 24, 2017, 11:03 AM -04:00

  If you have functions with shared data, then what you have a class, whether or not you choose to use the word.
• Mar 19, 2017, 2:03 PM -04:00

  Starting The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.  Wish me luck, everyone.
• Mar 15, 2017, 9:03 AM -04:00

  I cannot use Regina Spektor as background music.  Engages the brain way too much.
• Feb 27, 2017, 10:02 PM -05:00

  "Sleeping in Light" is a lovely turn of phrase.  And a lovely ending to Babylon 5.
• Feb 14, 2017, 9:02 AM -05:00

  Yes, it's a bit irrational to be mad at people who are 2500 years dead, but now I want to read The Iliad just to piss off Plato and Socrates
• Feb 6, 2017, 8:02 PM -05:00

  Surprise #1 while reading The Republic: Plato asserting, via Socrates, that the Iliad is unsuitable as literature in his ideal state.
• Jan 27, 2017, 9:01 AM -05:00

  Lindor chocolates look like little brown Death Stars.
• Jan 13, 2017, 7:01 PM -05:00

  ...but I've just discovered it hiding under all the bean sprouts, and now I feel guilty.
• Jan 13, 2017, 7:01 PM -05:00

  I was bitterly complaining in my head about how this Ramen soup did not have any egg..