Todd

methods with same name

2009-12-29T15:46:14Z

if two methods (functions, routines) of a class have the same name, it's a bug, unless one is overriding the other. If the classes are not related, or if there is no relationship between the methods, except for having the same name (or similar functionality but there is not a class hierarchy relationship of the methods)...it's a bug.

fish hook and dopes

2009-12-29T15:30:44Z

as a kid on a fishing boat i saw a nice live 5 inch fish speared on a large hook through its side and thrown in suffering as live bait for a bigger one. and the barracuddas hauled in clubbed with a bat to subdue them.
as a man i drink smoke or otherwise anesthesize or inebriate, to smother the awarenesses of how we beings are hooked as bait for larger fishes or clubbed to subdue. How long to learn, that awarenesss and some possible if remote possibility to act on it, is a more valuable possession than an easy or pleasurable but temporary in the end, existence. And heres another mechanistic use or reason for organzed religeon to come into being.

Multiplication Disease

2009-12-28T14:53:50Z

How it is
The Means of reproduction
shock men and ladies,
Offend the judge, land you in prison.
Your body says Multiply, populate.
It ruins your life for good.
Your sex instinct regulated by faith.
When a disease spread and maimed.
Marauders roamed
Searched for homes and novel DNAs
For better offspring thanks nature.
Seeping over shores and
Breaking the Family circle with miserable death.
Huckabee and Palin offer us safety
and loneliness for unmatched unfound lovers.
The Popes bible heeds your organs.
Regulate inside uniform,
Release with care and ritual.
Roam the world with tickets antibiotics antivirals.

parents childhood and their kids

2009-11-07T02:49:13Z

I think I figured out how my mothers childhood, the emotion of shame, affected her relationship with her kids, and me, and had a long lasting effect on my adulthood (my life in a permanent sense).

peligrio, anachronistic coloratura

2009-10-13T13:07:34Z

si si senor

smartest to be ignorant and strong emotions

2009-09-16T14:56:34Z

What is the source of the pride or shame in saying 'I am foggy about that' in a class or learning environment.
If the others become exasperated by a clueless student's question the tangles that ensue but the clueless student is smarter and the teacher is smarter to go over the material.
Where does the strong emotion of "I HAVE to do it myself, or I don't or won't do it" come from?

introduction to Over The Rainbow (not in movie)

2009-06-19T01:02:26Z

Here's the intro:

When all the world is a hopeless jumble
And the raindrops tumble all around
Heaven opens a magic lane
When all the clouds darken up the skyway
There's a rainbow highway to be found
Leading from your window pane
To a place behind the sun
Just a step beyond the rain

Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
[and so on]
the only recorded version that includes the intro is conducted by Andre Rieu, and sung by Suzan Erens,
YouTube has it posted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4wKIYBuNhY

My Old Flame

2009-06-10T15:42:11Z

My Old Flame,
I can't even think of his name,
It's funny now and then,
How my thoughts go flashing back again to my old flame.
My old flame,
My new lovers all seem so tame,
I haven't met a gent so magnificent
Or elegent as my old flame.
I've met so many who had fascinatin' ways,
A fascinatin' gaze in their eyes.
Some who took me up to the skies,
But their attemps at love were only imitations of
My old flame,
I can't even think of his name,
But I'll never be the same,
Until I discover what became of my old flame.
**Instrumental**
My old flame,
I can't even think of his name,
It's funny now and then,
My thoughts go flashing back again to my old flame.
My old flame,
My new lovers all seem so tame,
For I haven't met a gent
So magnificent or elegent as my old flame.
I've met so many who had fascinatin' ways,
A fascinatin' gaze in their eyes.
Some who took me up to the skies,
But their attempts at love
Were only imitations of
My old flame,
I can't even think of his name,
But I'll never be the same,
Til I discover what became of my old flame.
My old flame
I'll never be the same
Til I discover what became of my old flame.
My old flame

love for sale lyrics

2009-06-09T14:21:46Z

When the only sound in the empty street,
Is the heavy tread of the heavy feet
That belong to a lonesome cop
I open shop.
When the moon so long has been gazing down
On the wayward ways of this wayward town.
That her smile becomes a smirk,
I go to work.

Love for sale,
Appetizing young love for sale.
Love that's fresh and still unspoiled,
Love that's only slightly soiled,
Love for sale.
Who will buy?
Who would like to sample my supply?
Who's prepared to pay the price,
For a trip to paradise?
Love for sale
Let the poets pipe of love
in their childish way,
I know every type of love
Better far than they.
If you want the thrill of love,
I've been through the mill of love;
Old love, new love
Every love but true love
Love for sale.

Appetizing young love for sale.
If you want to buy my wares.
Follow me and climb the stairs
Love for sale.
Love for sale.

An Effective Sieve

2009-05-26T19:37:30Z

Rejection is an effective sieve, even if the reason is given or not, either way you can still learn about the nature of the sieve. Not to take things at face value; Reasons given for the rejection are the surface; Real Reasons are the meat under the skin.
The lesson is to be persistent and smile at those bad things that are on the surface; look below and be pleased at the process; and know suffering brings strength.

Song list

2009-03-25T20:21:01Z

Ain't Misbehavin'
All of Me
All the Things You Are
Begin the Beguine
By A Waterfall
I know that you know
It don't mean a thing if it aint got that swing
Honeysuckle Rose
How High the Moon
Love For Sale
Margie
Mood Indigo
MoonGlow
My Old Flame
two little words
I cant believe you're in love with me

working in medicine

2009-03-19T13:46:29Z

Working in medicine eliminates a type of uncertainty, about your situation or what you're doing. In this way it's a satisfying occupation.
FOR EXAMPLE:
Remember "Mash", the Movie?... It did not matter _what_ they did or how obnoxious they acted. The uncertainty about the value of their work was unquestionable, so they could be that way, any way, be crazy with women, run around in underpants, it did not matter and it did not subtract from the value of their work in any way.

authentic chinese green tea

2009-03-13T19:48:27Z

The great thing about REAL green tea is the second cup made from the same leaves tastes great! Brew the tea until the leaves fall down in the water. NOTE: To remove sticks and stems that float, use a chopstick and fish them out.
NOTE: Correct authentic practice is brew momentarily in hot water, then throw out the water, then brew 2nd time. Maybe this is because tea concentrates aluminum which is added in fertilizer Alum.

Lung Ching is a tea making region in China, Lung Ching means "Dragon Well". There is a well there that has real Dragons living in it.

(1) Lung Ching Emerald Spring

This is the best. No stems, small leaves, great taste.
http://www.arborteas.com/emerald-spring-lung-ching-green-tea.html

(2) Lung Ching Dragon Well

This is basic Lung Ching. Cheaper cost, has stems in it. Still tastes great. Available in Chinese grocery stores in a nice bulk container.
http://www.arborteas.com/dragonwell-lung-ching-green-tea.html

(3) Pouchong Tea

Green tea that is barely fermanted to Ooolong. "Ten Tea" brand from Taiwan is available. This is inexpensive and good! Available in chinese grocery stores.
http://www.tentea.com/specpouc.html

(4) Mao Feng

http://www.arborteas.com/mao-feng-green-tea.html

(5) Mao Jian

Jian means 'tip'. http://www.arborteas.com/mao-jian-green-tea.html

gui and seperation

2009-01-15T16:01:31Z

when two applications have completely different ways of doing the same thing (like 'find') it does not mean they should be integrated. Integrated apps (like integrated machines) that depend on each other is bad.
The programs should just do the operation using the same interface. Generalizing is a human problem like it's also a valuable human skill. So how to tell the difference?

religion

2008-12-18T19:29:46Z

The problem is that religion has nothing to do with God but everything to do with human’s lack of free will and being subject to instincts and other compulsions.
We simply cannot do what we think we should do all the time. Instead, we sometimes require religious dogmas to perform self-beneficial actions. It can enable us to do what we know we should do but cannot, because of our biology.
Like quitting drugs or abstaining from sex when it’s dangerous for diseases, and a million other things.

Lindy Hop class steps

2008-11-21T15:43:06Z

Positions are maintained in a long rectangle with MF changing positions in the rectangle ends.
1) basic step 6 beats 1,,3,,56
2) open and closed position
3) F spin to left, reverse position.
4) Barbie-Doll J out to in (open to closed)
5) Shoulder push in to out (closed to open)

Bloomberg quotes

2008-11-20T21:42:12Z

Bloomberg is interesting here are quotes in the paper (NY Times) today, I think these are really funny!

He was asked about cancelling the $400 rebate, Asked what he would tell homeowners who have been depending on the money to pay bills or buy holiday gifts,
“Plan for the worst, and hope for the best.”
“I just answered your question. You just don’t want the answer.”

When residents complained that the city was issuing parking tickets after a snowstorm in 2007, the mayor suggested that New Yorkers stop “griping.”
About crowded subways, he has said: “So you stand next to people. Get real. This is New York.”

This year, responding to complaints that black rubber mats and other playground equipment get dangerously hot in the summer, the mayor said: “If it’s hot, don’t sit on it. Air-conditioning the slide is not something we can afford to do.”

On Wednesday, when saying that the city was trying to turn the thermostats down inside city buildings to save heating costs, he offered this advice: “Wear a sweater if you’re chilly.”

Favorite Movies (mostly 1930's screwball)

2008-11-20T21:37:13Z

Young In Heart, The (1938)
A family of con artists saves the life of a wealthy old woman and plots to fleece her. Cast: Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard. Dir: Richard Wallace. BW-91 mins,

Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
A woman''s two lives as small-town innocent and author of torrid romances collide.
90 or 94 mins.
Irene Dunne Melvyn Douglas Thomas Mitchell Thurston Hall Elisabeth Risdon
Margaret McWade Spring Byington Nana Bryant Henry Kolker Leona Maricle Robert Greig

Roberta (1935)
A football player inherits a chic Paris fashion house. Cast: Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers. Dir: William A. Seiter. BW-106 mins 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes',

complexity and human nature???

2008-08-03T11:52:53Z

There's something about complexity...Why do we try to avoid it, or simplify our lives; sometimes it's necessary to embrace the complexity of things, rather than run from it.
Note that trying to simplify life often makes it more complex. Another irony/paradox/contradiction for my list.

engineering stunts

2008-05-26T04:00:23Z

two things that i'm thinking about.
seeing Paths of Glory by Kubrick was identifying because I am doing stuff I'm asked to do which i should not really be doing but I'm doing it anyway like a worm.
The other thing is the feeling that in order to work in this technical engineering field which produces the greatest volume of precision parts (software in my case) that must work, the necessary imprecisions seems somewhat deceptive...which are there and one must use alot of to accomplish those tasks...or they'd never get done.

my epitaph

2008-05-14T19:47:30Z

le cose sono avvitati, abituarsi ad essa. (or is Scopata correct?)

Las cosas están follada, acostumbrarse a él.

interaction of member variable and accessor function

2008-05-14T19:40:36Z

if a variable can be used both by Get() (or Set()), can be private, but still can be directly
accessed by code without the accessor function, maybe that variable should not be in the class but should be in another one that would never need to directly access it except by using it's Get() and Set(). (no variables only classes/structs?)

just stuff

2008-05-08T19:51:41Z

You can't copy a value unless you create a copy of the object.

Things are fucked up, get used to it.

Wheeler

2008-04-14T21:10:58Z

“If there’s one thing in physics I feel more responsible for than any other, it’s this perception of how everything fits together,” he said. “I like to think of myself as having a sense of judgment. I’m willing to go anywhere, talk to anybody, ask any question that will make headway.

“I confess to being an optimist about things, especially about someday being able to understand how things are put together. So many young people are forced to specialize in one line or another that a young person can’t afford to try and cover this waterfront — only an old fogy who can afford to make a fool of himself.

“If I don’t, who will?”

"We are no longer satisfied with insights only into particles, or fields of force, or geometry, or even space and time,” Dr. Wheeler wrote in 1981. “Today we demand of physics some understanding of existence itself.”

The black hole “teaches us that space can be crumpled like a piece of paper into an infinitesimal dot, that time can be extinguished like a blown-out flame, and that the laws of physics that we regard as ‘sacred,’ as immutable, are anything but,” he wrote in his 1999 autobiography, “Geons, Black Holes & Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics.”

current job

2008-01-18T13:22:02Z

When you rush things you make mistakes. Why would I want to make mistakes?
I've been rushing since I started working here 2 years ago.