complich8′s journal

So, I’m surfing around quite a bit, as usual when I’m bored at work, and since it’s the end of the year, I’m seeing a lot of year-end wrapups and predictions for next year, and I feel inexplicably compelled to join in. In retrospect, 2005 has been a year of disappointments. extreeeeemely long writeup follows

I have … SHOULDERS! That is all.

In other news, I’ve apparently drawn the attention of some spammer somewhere, who dropped about 50 messages in my moderation queue. I didn’t even know I _had_ a moderation queue. I just noticed it on a whim, poking around looking for another feature that doesn’t seem to be here! But yeah … of the 53 [...]

Ok, a lot of the previously posted link resonates. If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what a lot of creative people do – get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you’ve thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how [...]

You don’t want to sell me deathsticks. I don’t want to sell you deathsticks. You want to go home and rethink your life. I think I’ll go home and rethink my life. http://paulgraham.com/hamming.html Interesting essay, linked from the one I posted 2 posts ago… good material for anyone interested in science. I feel an induced [...]