| Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 |
| 3:45 am |
In the name of all the anti-evolution rhetoric brought up by grass-roots Christian fundamentalists and now being introduced to schools across our nation: If humans have evolved just like anything else, as science has _proved_ they have, then they do not have any special privileges. There cannot be some supervising deity, or some eternal body influencing human affairs. There can be no afterlife because death is necessary for evolution; death is death. Evolution cannot take place if organisms don't die. Therefore, there is no case for any form of religion stating otherwise. Humans evolve plants to produce tomatoes year-round, evolve cows to produce more milk, blueberries that appear more blue and delicious to attract consumers like me, who are duped into buying these tasteless beauties. Everybody buys evolution in their local grocery store, yet these Christians seem to think humans are somehow an exception to this, that we have a creator and thus a blind-faith religion to follow suit. Evolution is everywhere, and these people are so blinded by religion they cannot see it. Everyone is entitled to believe whatever hocus-pocus they wish, but duping the next generation of thinkers into believing fictional-bullshit religion by planting anti-evolution seeds in biology books, or offering degrees in creational "sciences" at a college in Texas is fucking ludicrous! Keith P.S. Don't mess with Texas. |
| Monday, November 19th, 2007 |
| 4:07 pm |
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| Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 |
| 4:40 pm |
Scaling to handle billions of requests per day seems to require databases to: 1. be distributed, 2. queried in joinless fashion (no referential integrity), 3. de-normalized (forget n3), 4. and transactionless. These constraints represent fundamental departures from a traditional relational database, and that is okay. Denormalizaion poses the biggest problem in my mind. I am okay with duplicating fields in tables, but what keeps these fields sync'd, especially without #4--transactions? Wrapping those updates might be a fair tradeoff, but is there a better way? P.S. ( Shameless promotion for aRgus' junk (shot)... )P.P.S. Thank you Rob, this site is hilarious: http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/ Current Mood:  pensive |
| Friday, October 19th, 2007 |
| 1:23 pm |
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot. |
| Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 |
| 1:10 pm |
Who else is going to Toorcon? |
| Friday, September 28th, 2007 |
| 3:57 am |
We have a Tom, and his name is Chester T. M. Arthur! Current Mood:  bouncy |
| Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 |
| 3:52 am |
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| Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 |
| 5:03 pm |
Massage Week
Everybody should go for a massage this week, at least an hour. |
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| Monday, September 24th, 2007 |
| 10:00 pm |
I've been using Darcs in lieu of Subversion lately and it seems to be much simpler, faster, and easier to use. Is anybody else using Darcs? |
| 4:51 am |
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| Sunday, September 23rd, 2007 |
| 12:13 am |
Looks Can Be Deceiving; Or, Functional Excellence
In all its splendor, here it is: our massively scaleable, n-way distributed system with fault tolerance. We can update the entire application on-the-fly without going offline--ever! 31> application:load(eventd). ok 32> application:loaded_applications(). [{kernel,"ERTS CXC 138 10","2.11.5"}, {eventd,"A scalable event server.","alpha"}, {stdlib,"ERTS CXC 138 10","1.14.5"}] Is it surprising that we didn't use PHP? Current Mood:  cheerful |
| Thursday, September 20th, 2007 |
| 3:32 pm |
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| Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 |
| 3:55 pm |
!?
I'm not into bragging or coming across cocky. Musically, eGon and I have made triumphant progress together as musicians these past few months, through our band outlet, Invisible Plan. We've upgraded from rock to boulder. k. P.S. Come to our next show! :) |
| Monday, September 17th, 2007 |
| 6:06 pm |
O.C. coffee shops have become my second home and mobile office. |
| Thursday, September 13th, 2007 |
| 2:48 am |
World Domination, and FAST!
The tools I choose to build Mocial will both surprise the competition and give me competitive edge against them. We moved way up in the SEO ranks over the past couple of days for our terms. Good work! We plan to be #1, and--at the rate we're rising--it's bound to happen by the time our private beta launches. I am excited at the progress we're making! Current Mood: optimistic |
| Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 |
| 1:43 am |
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| Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 |
| 5:01 am |
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| Saturday, September 8th, 2007 |
| 3:44 am |
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