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Archive of entries posted on October 2007

“Solid gold Hello Kitty playing cards”

A friend of ours is a major Hello Kitty collector, so we’re always on the lookout for Hello Kitty merchandise that would make good gifts for her. But I have to say, no matter how much we love her, this is a little too rich for us.

“Not tonight, honey, I’m on the Internet”

If I were foolish enough to tell GoddessJ that I prefer the Internet to sex, you can bet I’d never get sex again.

“Flying Witch Arcade Game Prototype with Broom”

Anybody want to take bets on whether this will lead to a Harry Potter Quiddich arcade game?

“Twelve Benefits of Writing Unit Tests First”

I ran across this post today. It’s more than a year old, but it’s still quite valid. I discovered the joys of unit tests a couple years ago, when I was developing an internal library of C++ classes and functions. Every time I made a change, I would run the test code for the library [...]

Lisp Practice

Over the weekend, I wanted to get in some Lisp practice — especially with macros and debugging — so I decided to port my MD5 calculation code (written in C++) to the language. It has a lot of repetitious code in it that could usefully be handled by macros.

The Latest Accidentally Humorous Spam Awards

Once more unto the breech, dear friends…

“Ig Nobel Prize: Vanilla flavoring from cow dung”

Darn, I missed the free public tasting yesterday.

Don’t Forget To…

The hardest thing about remembering something is remembering it long enough to remember it. Okay, that sentence is a little convoluted, but that doesn’t affect it’s accuracy. The hardest part about remembering something is keeping it in your head for more than a few seconds in the first place — once you can do that, [...]

“Pink, white katydids found in Osaka”

If you don’t believe that marketing departments are taking over everywhere, check out Mother Nature’s new line of products.

Pink Trinkets Annoy Women

Apparently women don’t care for pink tech toys, despite the fact that it has been proven that girls prefer pink. Of course, I’m writing this just after GoddessJ picked up a pair of pink ear-bud headphones for her new MP3 player. Apparently she’s one of the 9% of women who do like pink tech toys.