over on kuro5hin there's a blurb about an artist's depiction of a female soldier in statue form for a monument. the question is primarily why doesn't this look like this?#

dan squawks about the benefits of using tail calls something that you should love if you are of the programming flavor because they make "no-no"s, "yes-yes"s in some cases. they can't cure my terrible gramma though.#

tony pierce claims to be selfish to his friends, yet he wants the best for them and can say nice things about them. like telling them they look perfect and that they are a sell out sometimes. i'll call you on your shit if you call me on mine, that's what friends are for.#

i think that moxie's cat is so powerful and independent because she lives with the epitome of freedom and girl power - that one named moxie. i think that if i had a cat she would sit inside all day, moping around, longing for another car to have and to hold, listening to old cure singles and trying to sing the words. cause you know, i'm a big sobber - hold me.#

this, mosaic from the pages of published papers of tim sherwood is very clever. (via mccracken) - i ponder if he made it by hand or if there's a good program for creating them? there MUST be!#

chrystal reflects on her wonderful performance in accounting class. i think that teachers really enjoy it when people who do good on tests and who look really bored in class still show up, because they see it as a sign of respect that you'll do something even though it doesn't seem to be gaining you anything. my father was relating to me a story that counters my hypothesis, he was telling me that back when he was in college he would always goto a class that he did great on the tests but would always just sit around and read... occasionally noticing something important happening. one day the professor took him aside and tried to convince him to stop coming to the class because he "obviously didn't need to". at least he wasn't upset that he wasn't paying full attention?#

later, chrystal thinks that all guys who like her are "bad eggs", but "occasionally a confused egg gets by.. he is not fooled by the 'egg trash dump' sign on my forehead" - i said that she probably has beautiful girl disease and thus lots of weirdos like her but that that reflects the poor quality of them rather than her. she's definitely good enough though.#

a few days ago at shots on goal, pk called moxie "the bee's knees". hah. i love it.#

a very funny quote from smalltalk irc via the smalltalk blog: "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you will have to ram them down their throat" #

tony tells about another interview with blackwebmaster magazine and is curious about what stories/posts where very good that he wrote. i think that a book of tony's posts would be a hit as would a book of one or two of his photoessays. actually i am thinking in my head about getting one made via the iphoto photobook thing. hmmmm?#

tony gets triple points today for mentioning tom waits. tom waits is the balls. i used to goto this diner in lowell and there's was this really funny picture of tom waits and jack kerouac sitting at the counter and those two seats are still the old style seats (they had the place renovated but kept those two.) i like tom waits. you should too, tony says so.#

kerneltrap has a little report about alan cox's talk at linuxexpo uk. i'm glad that maddog gave him the "Best Single Contributor" award. (side note: maddog used to work with my dad and he used to come over my house for christmas parties and play duke nukem with me.)#

openbsd gets static bounds checking in the compiler. which is interesting and useful but not optimal. hopefully once the computers write the programs themselves we won't have to think about these problems... you know, cause we'll be slaves.#

daring fireball completely destroys some bogus apple criticism and doomsday proclamations brought about by this whole, "linux" phenomena heat wave.#