All Progress
An investigation into the origins of the famous fortune cookie saying All progress occurs because people dare to be different led me to a dead end, and I missed these important points.
An investigation into the origins of the famous fortune cookie saying All progress occurs because people dare to be different led me to a dead end, and I missed these important points.
I was recently presented with a fairly puzzling ad image.
I got a fortune cookie slip of paper (twice!) that read:
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
I updated my self-relocating program for the 21st Century.
GCC and Clang C compilers compile the new code with no warnings. the program no longer needs weird hacks like compiling with an executable stack.
During the midst of the COVID pandemic, I was in the habit of taking walks through my neighborhood.
I read a paper, Are We There Yet? The Jetsons and the City of the Future by Laura Broman. This paper appeared in Spectator, 43:1, Spring, 2023.
I wrote a Go program this morning.
I thought of a super clever way to find the median
of a sorted slice of float64 types.
This clever way to do medians worked in the little
program I wrote first, because I strictly follow Gall’s Law.
I take Pepcid Complete chewable tablets for heartburn.
I got two terrible fortunes at The Imperial Chinese restaurant in Denver Colorado.
I have an old web page here on my personal web site. It’s actually my single most popular page.
I write specifically about my scripting FTP file transfers web page. Go take a look, then come back for some navel gazing about it!