The real holy grail, of course, would be to provide revision control on all government regulations, and eventually, on legislation. This would no doubt be fought tooth and nail by lobbyists who don’t want their fingerprints on the final result, but that’s precisely why it would be such a breakthrough.
Captain Murphy, voiced by the late and brilliant Harry Goz. Best voice actor and character, ever.
John Barton was saying how great all the motorcycle photographs were on this tumble log, so I bring you the 2009 Triumph Street Triple. It’s got all the Daytona Super Sports’ components, so it’s more equivalent to the Daytona, unlike it’s predecessors, apparently. This is on my test-ride shortlist, in May 2009 :)
The psycho Kawasaki ZX-14… The most similar style to the bike I currently have (somewhere in-between a sports and a tourer, except with more than 5 times the engine capacity). They call it a ‘hyper sports tourer’. I call it a ‘psycho monster bike that looks like a spider from the front’. It certainly is nice but… probably too advanced a bike for little old me, at this point in my riding career :)
If I have to listen to some speaker meditate on what “beautiful code” means one more time I think I’m going to kill someone. Yes, beauty is important. I have my idea of beautiful code and you have yours, and there may be a nexus where the two meet. But tearing into people who are trying to learn Ruby, trying to move away from Java, doing the best they can to meet the Ivory Tower’s standards of “beauty”…well that’s just mean. And it doesn’t have to be that way. “Beauty” doesn’t have to be Ruby’s “Enterprise”.
In the growth mind-set classes, students read and discussed an article entitled “You Can Grow Your Brain.” They were taught that the brain is like a muscle that gets stronger with use and that learning prompts neurons in the brain to grow new connections. From such instruction, many students began to see themselves as agents of their own brain development. Students who had been disruptive or bored sat still and took note. One particularly unruly boy looked up during the discussion and said, “You mean I don’t have to be dumb?
