Entry-level work
matt | September 28, 2006
The pay is entry-level, but the experience you'll get will be good, and there are good benefits on top of it.
Job Posting
The Caffeinated Penguin
musings of a crackpot hacker
Code
matt | September 25, 2006
Here is a short answer bunch of questions for all the hackers in the crowd.
(1) What are your opinions of the usage of the following keywords, in any language which supports them:
return
goto
break
continue
(2) What is wrong with the following construct:
for(i=0; i < foo.length; ++i)
{
if(foo[i]){ continue; }
else
[...]
Cats
matt | September 25, 2006
The downstairs folks have a bunch of kittens.
One of them is this cute little calico girl, who loves to visit Lizzy when she's outside.
We had thought of taking her in, but since we know she's not a stray and belongs to the people downstairs, we didn't.
We don't let our cats outside, because of the amount [...]
Logistics
matt | September 22, 2006
Why is it that people just can't seem to do logistics?
It's very simple.
(1) When giving people directions to your house, include the address. That way, people can look it up on a map, put it into a GPS, etc.
(2) When you need help for something (let's say – moving) and you're asking family members for [...]
A Rifleman's Prayer
matt | September 9, 2006
I'm not a praying man, but for some reason, this prayer appeals to me:
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Oh Lord, I would live my life in freedom, peace and happiness, enjoying the simple pleasures of hearth and home. I would die an old, old man in my own bed, preferably of sexual overexertion.
But if that is not to be, Lord, [...]
A few honeymoon pics
matt | September 9, 2006
These are the more.. peculiar ones.
First, for , we have “Purple Cows, Alaska Style”:
But, it's legit – it's a service of the Juneau Cooperative Christian Ministry
US Senate Candidates for RI
matt | September 9, 2006
In further support of the insurrection, here are some opinions on various candidates running for US Senate in the state of Rhode Island.
As near as I can tell, there are three advertising currently: Chafee, Laffey, and Whitehouse.
Chafee is a known quantity – he's been the senator from Rhode Island since his father passed away. He's [...]
McCain-Feingold
matt | September 9, 2006
For those of you who are not aware, we are entering the McCain-Feingold dark period. This is a period of 60 days before an election where varieties of “Coordinated Communications” are banned, because they may constitute “contributions” to a campaign. The fear here is that these “Coordinated Communications” may apply to random folks as well. [...]
News
matt | September 5, 2006
From Sabin, a good article about government failures during Katrina
In a nutshell, the welfare state bred a bunch of people to depend on the government – when the government couldn't help them, they couldn't fend for themselves, and all they did was complain about how other people should help them.
Other people took responsibility for themselves [...]
