Found a moment with one of my favorite movies… Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and… Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten? Nigel Tufnel: Exactly. Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it’s louder? Is it any louder? Nigel Tufnel: Well, [...]
“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all [...]
Well I was catching up on my fine cinema viewing… really catching up — not so much on the fine part. Caught ‘Saw II‘ on HD — disturbing as usual, but a line in the final moments caught my ear – “What is the cure for Cancer, Eric? The cure for death itself. The answer [...]
This article would be funnier if it weren’t so true. “The first step is agreeing that you have a problem. The road to simplicity is not hard. There’s a standing joke that business people never have to ask IT how long something will take and what it will cost because they already know the answers: [...]
Wired’s Adam Rogers wrote a lovely, sweeping obit for Dungeons and Dragons creator Gary Gygax in this weekend’s New York Times that included this flowchart showing how D&D was a gateway drug into every kind of nerd-dom <from BoingBoing.com>: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/opinion/09rogers.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Check out the linked article below – always great to whip out the pen and make some magic. I guess I’m addicated to whiteboards too. “Who says doodling is a waste of time? Here are four ways to solve serious business problems with a simple drawing.” http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/02/0225_doodles/index_01.htm
Checklists – avoid blind spots in complex scenarios. Straight forward advice to make big screwups less likely. “Checklists are good because they can educate people about the best course of action, showing them the ironclad right way to do something.” The Heroic Checklist – Fast Company – March 2008 Beware of creep though — a [...]
“There are two different types of programmers. Some like to code for months or even years, and hope they will have built the perfect product. That’s castle building.” … “Others prefer to have something at the end of the day, something to refine and improve the next day. That’s what we do.” Fast Company – [...]