Collecting performance metrics, I needed a way to compare before/after numbers from optimizations into some meaningful value that would impress the brass.
Continue reading “Comparison Formulae”Portal
Pika: Have you ever seen a portal?
Kirik: Yes.
Pika: Was it like a doorway or a window?
Kirik: It looks like the room you’re in but the room’s dimensions start changing around you.
Continue reading “Portal”Bright and Stormy
- 3 parts clear gin
- ½ part absinthe verte
- 1 part fresh squeezed lemon juice
- 4+ parts ginger beer
Stir uncarbonated ingredients in Collins glass with ice cubes. Top with ginger beer.
Myopic Mania
Over one hundred years of intellectual discipline in the mathematical, chemical, and physical sciences culminates in this amazing device I hold in my hand; empowering me to instantly tweet across oceans and continents that viruses and vaccines are a hoax.
Ghost of Gatsby
- 3 parts dry gin
- 1 part sweet vermouth
- 1 part absinth
All Grows Up
The purpose of accepting authority is to learn to outgrow it.
Elaine Pagels
Why am I alive?
We long to be here for a purpose. Yet despite much self-deception, none is evident. The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life’s meaning. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
Carl Sagan
Say it ain’t so
Your drug is a heart breaker. My love is a life taker.
Weezer
Keep Going
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard
Well, you know
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy