Towards the end of an interview in which Bill Bradley answers questions he wished he'd been asked...
As a former Knicks star who still stands 6-foot-5, do you ever play basketball with the school kids in your neighborhood? Oh, God, no. I have a bad hip. I would say it's because I did the Stair Master, four days a week, for 10 years. You take these short steps and you just have the femur up there in the socket wearing away the cartilage.
—Deborah Solomon (interviewer), "Questions for Bill Bradley: Rules of the Game," New York Times Magazine, 2007-03-25
Next week, I'll be checking the stock of Stairmaster brand owner Nautilus Group (NYSE: NLS).
If someone asks you in a meeting, or even a job-interview, if you have ever programmed in Scheme don't say yes unless you actually have.
And the scheming Scheme Cabal's subtle propaganda campaign proceeds. Sure, you could be asked in a job interview whether you know Scheme.
Ask about my Extreme Scheme professional coaching services.
This isn't so much of a review, but I like to put "review" in headings, for the questionable benefit of Web searchers.
I've craved an IKEA KLIPPAN sofa for a couple years, and finally bought one with an off-white cover a few weeks ago.
To christen KLIPPAN, a cute friend did some highly impromptu modeling. (So cute, that I can shoot her with a wide-angle lens, just after she's come in from the cold, with no chance to check her hair or anything, in window light-- and the shots still turn out nice.)
After a little testing, we concluded that KLIPPAN works fine. However, I've decided I really do want a full-size version, since even short friend can't stretch out on KLIPPAN, as she demonstrates in upper-left photo.
I spell IKEA KLIPPAN in all-caps, as I am part Scandinavian and this is my cultural heritage.
I've been dating a certain woman off-and-on for a couple months, and I decided to look into classes at the Boston Language Institute, so that I could at least get the pronunciation and other rudiments of her native language. Also, I've wanted to learn that language since childhood, so this is a good excuse.
To get a head start before the Spring session of classes, I went to order the study materials through Amazon. I'd forgotten that the last time I used Amazon was last summer, to have a Rushdie hardcover delivered to my then-girlfriend. Of course, tonight, Amazon emblazons the ex's name and familiar home address across one of the order step pages for me -- ostensibly as the default shipping address, but probably just to be jerks.
That reminds me of last year, when I called a florist near the girlfriend's lab, to have flowers delivered. After the woman at the florist typed only my contact info into her computer, she asked, "These are for [girlfriend's first name]?" Well, yes they were, but I thought at the time that the situation might've been awkward, had the flowers been for a different romantic interest.
Which reminds me of a much better story:
A few days after she broke up with her boyfriend, she was looking at her user preferences and decided to update them to reflect this fact. Imagine her surprise when the sixdegrees cheerfully told her that the following message had just been mailed to her ex-boyfriend:
This is a notification that [my friend's name] has cancelled your status as boyfriend.
—Nikita Borisov, "Re: Using calendar reminder service ..." (RISKS-21.37), 2001-05-04
SBCL 1.0.3.0 is in Debian experimental.
First, read Debian APT HOWTO sec. 3.8, "How to keep a mixed system." Then make sure you have
/apt/apt/sources.list entries for experimental, such
as:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib
Finally:
apt-get -t experimental install sbcl sbcl-doc sbcl-source
"Slime patch" is not an old SNL spoof commercial, nor something a physician applies after bloodletting with leeches, but a source code patch for the Emacs-based Common Lisp IDE, Slime.
I submitted a patch of a few lines to add mouseover highlighting to backtrace frame expressions.
And I have to tell you that, in the age of the Internet, having ones recent blog entries full of quick weeknight hacks seems like a great way to turn off potential dates.
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