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Martin Fowler likes Open Space meetings
Martin Fowler just blogged in a positive way about Open Space meetings, and he’s smarter (and more experienced) than your average bear (e.g., me). I really have to get myself in some situation where I get to seriously try something like this. No tag for this post. Related posts No related posts.
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Gotta see the polka dude discover zydeco
This week Ebert choose “Schultze gets the blues” as his video pick of the week. I’d never heard of the film before, but now I’ve just got to see it. A German polka accordionist who discovers a love for zydeco late in life through a chance snippet on the radio? And travels from Germany to [...]
Now’s a good time to get out of Dodge
…POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC HURRICANE KATRINA NOW MOVING NORTH-NORTHWESTWARD TOWARD THE NORTHERN GULF COAST… – From the National Weather Service “Hurricane KATRINA Public Advisory” Yikes! These folks don’t use phrases like “potentially catastrohpic” lightly. I think I’m glad to be over 1,000 miles from this particular party. Spend a while at the National Weather Service’s excellent site [...]
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Woot! On to TCO Round 3!
In a surprise bout of competence, mostly brought on by a fairly math-y set of problems and fairly good focus, I managed to be one of the 200 to advance to Round 3 of the Top Coder Open! Huzzah! I even placed third in my room, earning a whopping (but appreciated) $50 to add to [...]
One wacko that didn’t become President…
…but is allowed way too much TV time… Pat Robertson is yet another of way too many religious zealots working desperately to further distort the U.S. political spectrum and give religion in this country a bad name. It would appear that now this senior spokesman for a host of Bad Ideas has really and truly [...]
Got another TopCoder Open t-shirt!
I’ve just managed to get my third TopCoder Open t-shirt in a row! Each year’s Open runs through several phases culminating in a handfull of far better contest programmers than me going to some nifty place to compete for 10′s of thousands of dollars in prizes. Here in the early phases there aren’t thousands of [...]
How come this always happens?
Classes start on 29 August which, for those not near a calendar, is just under two weeks away. One of my courses this semester is a Computer Graphics course. This isn’t my area, but no one else here has any more background so it’s fallen in my lap when we’ve done it. Because no one [...]
Hey-Dee-Ho – A new planet in our solar system!
A few weeks ago JPL announced the discovery of a 10th planet in our solar system! A name for this newfound member of our neighborhood has been proposed but not yet approved. And there are people who think that science takes all the excitement and mystery out of the world. They obviously haven’t ever really [...]
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Pee Zed does a fine job on the BBC
Last night WeatherGirl and I listened to PZ (“Pee Zed” in most of the English speaking world) Myers fine interview on BBC’s 5 Live as anticipated here earlier. Apparently 5 Live had had some ID folk on last week spinning whatever nutcase yarns that they typically spin, and last night was to provide “balance”. (“Last [...]
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I don’t know _when_ I last laughed that hard!