Biography: Walt Whitman
Thursday, 26 February 2009
A transcript of Honors English student Peter Nguyen’s essay: Biography: Walt Whitman.
Star Wars:The Force Unleashed First Impressions
Monday, 22 September 2008
My first impression of Star Wars:The Force Unleashed: very fun, but needs some better camera work.
Only Nerds Have Wednesday Shirts
Thursday, 10 November 2005
“I once knew a man who had a necktie for each day of the week. One for Saturday, Sunday, Monday, etc. At the time, I thought it was weird. So did a bunch of other people, but I think that was because they didn’t like him. This one-tie-per-day habit was just something else they could add to their list of Reasons Not To Like Someone.
“I now find myself in a similar spot as Mr. Necktie. You see, I have a different shirt for every day of the week.”
Who Put the Suits in Charge?
Tuesday, 1 November 2005
“Whenever The Suits take control of things that are, at their essence, creative, you (typically) get bad creations. Suits use things like focus groups and record sales charts and gut feelings to determine what to do and how to do it. When you let the creators have control, you (usually) get something much, much better because they have studied and practiced and they understand the nuances of story, rhythm, timing, pacing, etc…. The same principle holds true in software.”
Re: What Business Can Learn From Open Source
Tuesday, 16 August 2005
Most software engineers _love_ what they do. They love it so much that, instead of paying $49.95 for software that organizes their collection of spores, molds, and fungus, they _write their own_. The really good software engineers are not through coding when they leave the office. Nope. Usually, they have another few hours of "work" to do once they get home. Not because they have two jobs, but they love putting together bits.
I Have Seen the Future, and It is Pain
Monday, 8 August 2005
Featuring advice that will prevent future maintainers of your code from hunting you down and feeding you your own fingers.
