On Life and Love
Whatever is making or breaking my day.
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Tastee (del.icio.us) links! (January 6th)
Links for January 6th from 13:42 to 13:42: Curiosity, Ignorance, Malice – The Daily WTF – “That’s stupid. Why would anyone ever do that?” His boss, Paul, shot a glare at him. “I don’t know,” Jim said, “curiosity? Ignorance? Malice?” “We can’t guard against malice.”
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First and last credit card
My first credit card — a Chase Rewards card that I got back in 2005 to help with Thorn expenses — is now my last and final. It had a $300 credit limit when I got it, and had a $2700 limit earlier this evening. I paid the remaining bit of balance on it this morning and closed it just 20 minutes ago once I saw the balance was $0. It took 2 minutes and 52 seconds to sever my last line of revolving credit. I feel strangely… cut loose. Like I’m no longer wrapped up in so much of America’s debt problem, even though I still have loans. But…
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Tastee (del.icio.us) links! (December 12th)
Links for December 12th from 09:47 to 09:47: OVERCOMPENSATING: The Journal Comic With a Seething Disdain for Reality. – "I think the casual misappropriation of the concept of rape extending all the way to its widespread comical usage is disgusting even by Internet standards."
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Tastee (del.icio.us) links! (December 9th)
Links for December 9th from 17:34 to 23:19: The Emacs Code Browser « Software bits and pieces – This is a very nice little guide to getting a nice code browser set up in emacs. It's cake, and it's cute. It does mean a few more shortcuts to remember, though… Stevey's Blog Rants: Code's Worst Enemy – "I happen to hold a hard-won minority opinion about code bases. In particular I believe, quite staunchly I might add, that the worst thing that can happen to a code base is size."
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Tastee (del.icio.us) links! (December 9th)
Links for December 9th from 16:09 to 16:09: Things You Should Never Do, Part I – Joel on Software – On code-rewriting: "It's important to remember that when you start from scratch there is absolutely no reason to believe that you are going to do a better job than you did the first time." Except, you know, hubris.