I will admit, I haven't really been looking too closely at the antics of Martin Shkreli, founder and CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, who is famous for buying the rights to the drug Daraprim (generic: pyrimethamine, used for the treatment of toxoplasmosis in patients with AIDS) and jacking up the price from $13.50/pill to $750/pill.

I was trawling around the WayBack Machine's archive of Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror because he had changed his permalink style sometime between 2007 and now, and I stumbled upon this old post about Logo (and Processing)¹.

Things might have turned out differently if Fox News hadn't spent the last three years screaming "Benghazi" at the top of their lungs and turning it into a punchline, but this ridiculous committee hearing is just the sad, pathetic denouement that I expected.

I used to play a lot of World of Warcraft, averaging like a couple of hours a night at least. I sort of stopped playing towards the end of Mists of Pandaria because (1) AK took a break to play FFXIV and battlegrounds just weren't the same without him and (2) I met ﾐA彡

Me and a colleague speculated over why San Diego County can’t seem to protect their citizens from something as regularly cyclic and expected as wildfires. Everyone knows the drill come October. The Santa Anas come blowing in. The brush dries out. Eventually something is going to catch fire, and the fire is going to spread. Fast.

Leave it to San Diego politicians to turn a natural disaster like the fires that are currently running rampant throughtout San Diego County into a partisan issue.

I stumbled upon this post about NeXTSTEP (the OS that Steve Jobs created after leaving Apple way back when), which basically already had almost all the features of Mac OS X. Which makes sense. Mac OS (what is now known as Classic) was an evolutionary dead-end with regards to operating systems, about on par with Windows 3.11. And while Apple worked on the vaporware that was known as Copland and even while they flirted with BeOS (what could’ve been, huh?), NeXT was already there and was already a decently established development environment. Hell, it had already spawned an Open Source project (GNUstep) before Apple finally decided to get their shit together and bring Steve back.

I just read this post about depression by alison on bluishorange, and I am so there.

Charlie White writes about what he hates about the iPod which is, I guess, praising with faint damnation. First off, the proper colloquial term is “hatorade” or maybe “hatoration” if you want to get pendatic. Get it right.

Nothing ever stays the same.

More quotes. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, one person’s rampant chaos and discord is another person’s exquisite order and harmony. And randomness to one person may be clear direction to another. (Hence, the unending battle between evolutionists and creationists.)

To Infinity and Beyond! Get paid for lying in bed for thirty days straight.

Winter and Fall in NYC
Faint kiss of love, frozen, land softly on my cheek
     melting, lingers the cold
Amidst the darkness and the great heaving throng
  the bustle of the crowd and the bluster of the wind
  Stinging, icy teardrops, scoring my cheek
    I am forgoteen amidst Winter's blast
      in a city of twelve million souls
       where I am alone.