Archive for the 'observational' Category

Charitable Giving

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

I realized that I may have spent more last year on coffee and cookies than on giving last year. I’m not sure if that says I’m drinking too much coffee and need to lay off the sweets, or that I was stingier than I thought last year.
2010, 2%. That’s the goal.

Oh shit, I’m a real person now … (or: Temporal Inevitability and Me)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

I’ve been contracting for basically the last year or so. Before that, I was in class working towards graduation, and then working towards getting a job that pays well enough to pay back the student loans and … err … eat.
It’s interesting though. Now that I’m a full-time employee with a permanent position, [...]

Local water

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Do you ever think to yourself something along the lines of … “I am amazed by what I’m seeing, and I will be back tomorrow to see it again and to photograph it” only to learn that tomorrow it will be gone?
So about a block away from my house, there’s a wooded area that apparently [...]

An interesting interview question

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

So, I interviewed for a job last week. Some nice people, and someone who I don’t think was enthusiastic about me writing about things like upcoming interviews. Sort of ambivalent on that …
But one of the interview questions that one of the unix guys I talked to asked me really struck me, and [...]

Ratio sites, and coping with the consequences of zero-sum

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Ratio-based torrent sites are getting pretty common (I regularly use 4 of them now). So all of this is in the context of bittorrent and ratio-sites. I’m planning on this post being a general examination of the structures and mechanics involved in these sites.
The meat is this: since bittorrent is a zero-sum protocol, [...]