Reason Made Solid
Sometimes you merely have to look at what ideas each side in a battle supports. I’m not going to tell you what to decide, only what’s at stake. It is explicitly a battle of those on the side of life vs. those on the side of death.
As someone who loves life, this credo of the Islamist totalitarians scares me to the core: http://www.mrc.org/articles/times-omits-hasans-chilling-we-love-death-more-you-love-life
I gave a presentation today for the local WordPress Meetup group on PHP Quality Assurance tools, named “Automagical Code Checking“. My Presentations page has been updated too.
Of all the places I’ve lived in, California has the most insolent drivers I’ve seen.
Prager University has put together a video that points out the root cause of why Israel is hated by many of its neighbors. The moral point here is to illustrate Ayn Rand’s observation of destructive envy and hatred, hatred of the good for being the good.
It’s also a good distillation of the history of the State of Israel before it was founded. The common belief is that Israel was hastily founded as a refuge for Holocaust survivors, which is not the case. The nation was built up by 19th-Century “Zionists”, who performed title searches and peaceably bought the land when the area was under the control of the British Empire. The settlers then cultivated the land, and made it possible for all peoples to flourish and prosper, long before the 1948 founding of Israel.
Massdrop has the Tex Yoda kit on offer. I’d need to solder it together to be able to use it. Feature-wise, this is a dream of a keyboard: 60% layout, my choice of Cherry MX switch, and a trackpoint.
I have updated my Presentations page with what amounts to a crash course in reading PHP for people who want to make WordPress themes.
And a gripe, I shot myself in the foot in trying to get KDE to mirror displays, ending up turning both off when an external monitor is plugged in. Much thanks to Sarah Wefald who let me use her laptop.
When I see American English users go all-out grammar nazi on Commonwealth English usage, and vice versa.
The sad thing about the current batch of Lenovo Thinkpads is the trackpad & trackpad button cluster is now a single dickpad (intended), and the keyboard layout is broken by design.
I realize that some tradeoffs need to be made to keep manufacture cost and weight down, but not this way. The subtle mechanical cues have been removed, which makes for an across-the-board reduction in touch typing ability.
I made this pledge a long time ago, but it bears repeating.
I, David The Machine, understand that my choice of font has the power to subconsciously & incorrectly set the tone for a piece of printed material, and as a result promise to seriously consider whether Comic Sans is an appropriate font choice before using it in any printed work in the future.
Signed,
David The Machine