Notes

If you have functions with shared data, then what you have a class, whether or not you choose to use the word.

Starting The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.  Wish me luck, everyone.

I cannot use Regina Spektor as background music.  Engages the brain way too much.

"Sleeping in Light" is a lovely turn of phrase.  And a lovely ending to Babylon 5.

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

Surprise #1 while reading The Republic: Plato asserting, via Socrates, that the Iliad is unsuitable as literature in his ideal state.

Lindor chocolates look like little brown Death Stars.

...but I've just discovered it hiding under all the bean sprouts, and now I feel guilty.

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

Is it just me or is pound cake basically Shortbread with eggs?

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress: possibly the first time I've ever seen an Ayn Rand reference in a science fiction novel.

I didn't even watch the debate. Still though: NO YOU'RE THE PUPPET!

UNBELIEVABLE COMPANY!

I HAVE A WINNING TEMPERAMENT!

' "She doesn't have the stamina" says the guy who has been sniffling all night.'

And I fear that if the last year wasn't enough to show Trump the door, this debate isn't going to do it (though it clearly should)

NOBODY CALLS SEAN HANNITY!

TREMENDOUS JOBS!

The thing is, this debate was basically just more of the same.

HACK INTO AMERICANS!  Crap that was Hilary...

Wait, the standard python library includes sqlite?

“This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it." - Dorothy Parker

I googled "In defense of the IDE" and got a whole bunch of shit on the Indian Defence Estate Service. I don't know why I find this funny.

Reactive programming feels like wiring a circuit.

I have nightmares about the mess in my basement.