poor taste

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 21^st 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!