Category Archives: Greenwich

Mothballed

Posted on September 21, 2023 by d4vid
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Jab

Posted on April 11, 2021 by d4vid

One dose down, one to go.

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Epitaph

Posted on October 14, 2019 by d4vid
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Source

Posted on September 12, 2019 by d4vid

When browsing in Chrome I often have Inspect open just because.  Visiting a time.com article on climate change, I noticed this comment between the <!doctype> and <html> tags: <!doctype html> <!– /((((((\\\\ =======((((((((((\\\\\ (( \\\\\\\ ( (* _/ \\\\\\\ \ … Continue reading →

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Ruby

Posted on July 18, 2019 by d4vid

For the first time in, like, twenty years I’ve learned a brand new HTML tag!  In my blog, I’ve always done translations like this… 小河马 (xiǎo hémǎ or “little river horse”) With the set of <ruby> tags, I could do … Continue reading →

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Bumper

Posted on June 11, 2019 by d4vid

Saw this on a car in the parking lot at work. Never has a bumper sticker given me more pause.

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Insight

Posted on May 17, 2019 by d4vid

Back at USC, I took an entertaining and aphorism-packed television writing class taught by a real character, Stanley Ralph Ross. (He wrote about a third of the original Batman episodes!) One of his many, many, many tips & tricks that … Continue reading →

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Gangsters

Posted on April 29, 2019 by d4vid

I keep forgetting this so I’m writing it down.  Congress has had more than one “Gang of Eight” over the years. There was a Gang of Eight in 2012 to deal with the “fiscal cliff”: Sen. Michael F. Bennet (D-CO) Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), Finance … Continue reading →

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Cog

Posted on April 17, 2019 by d4vid
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Passive

Posted on April 2, 2019 by d4vid

This essay by Anna Borges really resonated with me.  (No one freak out, please.  Like her, I’m trying to explain a feeling here, not express an intention.) The notion of “passing driftwood” was something I particularly identified with.  Looking forward … Continue reading →

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Legacy

Posted on April 2, 2019 by d4vid

As I wade through two decades of legacy code at work, I’m constantly reminded of two things: The Homer quote above and the madness-inducing Book from Neal Stephenson‘s Anathem.

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Counterproductive

Posted on March 21, 2019 by d4vid

Life in Early 21st Century Middle Class America Life on Earth Nature Have my genes equipped me to survive in this culture? Have my genes equipped me to survive in ANY culture? Nurture Has my upbringing equipped me to survive … Continue reading →

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Disneyfication

Posted on March 19, 2019 by d4vid

At the stroke of midnight, I shall magically transform into a Disney employee.

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Shit

Posted on February 7, 2019 by d4vid

I made the unwise decision to read all three of these on the same day: News story about suicides in VA parking lots News story about how Global Warming means “Everything is not going to be okay” Live tweeting of … Continue reading →

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Gigerpunk

Posted on February 1, 2019 by d4vid

I was quibbling with coworkers over lunch as to the definition of cyberpunk.  I said that it was marked by dystopia, a film noir aesthetic, and technology filtering down to a criminal underworld.  But a couple of guys insisted that … Continue reading →

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