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Ten things you don’t know about the Milky Way Galaxy
Ten things you don’t know about the Milky Way Galaxy. I think I knew about two of them... pretty cool though.
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Back on the bike!
I went on a ride with Cycling Spoken Here last night for the first time this year. It felt brisk, but was only 15mph over 20 miles. I gotta get back in shape!
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Productivity tips
From Matthew Moore comes 10 Ways to Improve Your Programming Productivity. I probably need to hit Google Reader a little less, and I love the tip about leaving yourself a place to start.
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Chew on this, math nerds!
I bet you did not know about this value of pi!
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Writing tips
9 tips to jumpstart your writing goal. I need to get on a few of these!
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Joel on Software: Good Software Takes Ten Years
"Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it.". Joel's got another good point. But surviving in the flat portion of the hockey stick is a little harder than it sounds!
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404'd!
And other HTTP status codes. All of this happens in the blink of an eye when you visit a web page.
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Classic memory: Innocence lost
At one point when Elise and I were dating, I mentioned that one of my favorite childhood memories was when an archer shot a flaming arrow into the torch of the 1992 Summer Olympics. She looked at me with surprise -- surely I knew that the archer did not actually hit the torch, and that the lighting of the flame was timed to when the arrow was near. I insisted that I had seen it with my own eyes and remembered it clearly. The debate sat unsettled for a couple of years.

With the advent of Youtube, it became easy to find videos of just about anything you could want. Elise decided to settle the debate once and for all. In one of the happiest moments of my marriage, I found an email, sender "Elise", subject "You're right", and the body text was a Youtube highlight. There was much joy and celebration that day.

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(You can tell where this is going, I'm sure...)

A few weeks later, I got another email from Elise. This time the subject line was just a frowny face. The body text: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vea23TG-GWU. I knew where this was headed. At 2:31 you can see the glorious finish that I remembered from my youth. At 2:35 you can see the point where my innocence was lost forever. Youtube commenter chrisz71 summed up my feelings perfectly:
AHHH- this just ruined SO much for me- I was around 6 years old when this was on- and of course, I didn't pay attenetion to it- but i DO remember the arrow in one of the more amazing lighting of the torch displays ever- that one camera angle just ruined my memory of this, and how cool it really was.
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Surviving an SR-71 breakup at Mach 3
Unbelievable. This guy survived an SR-71 breakup at Mach 3.
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