Archive for March, 2006

3/29/2006: 8:24 am: PcmanComicality

A man appeared before St. Peter at the pearly gates.

“Have you ever done anything of particular merit?” St. Peter asked.
“Well, I can think of one thing,” the man offered. “Once, on a trip to the Black Hills
out in South Dakota (Sturgis), I came upon a gang of high-testosterone bikers, who were
threatening a young woman. I directed them to leave her alone, but they wouldn’t listen.
“So, I approached the largest and most heavily tattooed biker and smacked him on the head,
kicked his bike over, ripped out his nose ring, and threw it on the ground.” I yelled, “Now,

back off!! Or you’ll answer to me!”
St. Peter was impressed: “When did this happen?”

“Just a couple minutes ago”

3/25/2006: 10:21 pm: PcmanSoftware Development

What if a debugger could allow you to simply step BACKWARDS? Instead of all that hassle with guessing where to put breakpoints and the fear of typing “continue” one too many times… What if you could simply go backwards to see what went wrong?

This is the essence of the “Omniscient Debugger” — it remembers everything that happened during the run of a program, and allows the programmer to “step backwards in time” to see what happened at any point of the program. All variable values, all objects, all method calls, all exceptions are recorded and the programmer can now look at anything that happened at any time.

This video from the Google engineering lab is very good on this very subject.

: 10:08 pm: PcmanComicality

Ok this is from the silly department for sure but it made me laugh. Shows you how hard that is. It is man against cow in this Matrix style battle.

3/23/2006: 7:45 pm: PcmanThoughts that Inspire

I read an interesting article about a former Apple and Microsoft executive named Linda Stone. She has coined the phrase for an epidemic she identified as continuous partial attention. I have thought about this situation before now but she seems to think it is a great concern for our society and on an epidemic scale. I must say I tend to agree. I mean if you really think about all of the Blackberrries, email, instant messaging, cell phones, and the hundreds of other distractions we have every day you must wonder how much attention you have to give to each item you are working on. Are we really ever giving any task or project full attention? I don’t think so and I think that is why everyone feels that they are always falling behind and unable to acheive what seems like simple goals. They are simple tasks, we are just working on them all at the same time. I once thought having all of this connectivity and availability made us perform better but looking back on it all I believe we have negated a very powerful tool. The ability to focus! What do you think?

3/22/2006: 7:14 am: PcmanThoughts that Inspire

If not then you need to spend a few minutes reading this very inspiring story and watching the video.
From ESPN.com:

It took four minutes. Four measly minutes for high school senior Jason McElwain to morph from a relatively unknown student manager of the Greece Athena basketball team into a nationwide inspiration.

In those 240 seconds, the 5-foot-6 kid with autism, in his first-ever appearance in a high school game, scored 20 points and tied a school record with six 3-pointers. The grainy video clip of his jaw-dropping accomplishment — and the pandemonium that ensued in the gym — has made its way from Greece Athena in Rochester, N.Y., to “Good Morning America,” “SportsCenter” and CNN. And as much as it tugs at the emotions of sports fans all across the country, its most significant impact might be felt within the autism community, where doctors, parents and educators are still buzzing about what this all could mean for the treatment of this disease.

3/21/2006: 7:49 pm: PcmanComicality
A major research institution has recently announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element has been named “Governmentium.” Governmentium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of Governmentium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete, when it would normally take less than a second.
Governmentium has a normal half-life of 4 years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.
This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as “Critical Morass.” When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium - an element which radiates just as much energy as the Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.
Now you know !
3/15/2006: 9:34 pm: PcmanMotorcycles / Cars

I always thought cruise control was to “assist” in driving your car. I was apparently not completely aware of all it could do. You see these two guys can set their cruise control and get out of the car to enjoy the ride from outside. This is about is stupid as it comes but pretty wild to watch as are all stupid tricks. :-)

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