memories for Nov 3

2015

2015 Nov 3
It Lights the Whole Sky

Aww. Turns out this verse attributed to Hafiz isn't actually written by Hafiz.

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2015 Nov 3
Google Retrospective

I am exactly eight years back on my quixotic quest to completely migrate my old blog posts from Mephisto to Jekyll.

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2015 Nov 3
The Species Problem

Apparently, I really did kind of pay attention during undergrad bio class.

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2015 Nov 3
The Nature of Evil

Bryan Edds essentially argues that the reason why software tends to be crappy and code bases tend towards unmaintainability is because there is an inherent flaw in the nature of capitalism.

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2015 Nov 3
Oral Phenylephrine

Oral phenylephrine is essentially worthless as a decongestant.

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2015 Nov 3
The Scourge of Daylight Saving Time

Nat Geo explains that one of the major reasons why Daylight Saving Time still exists is because of businesses—people buy more things when there's more sunlight after work, so we have no one to blame but our own consumerist lifestyles #‎RegulatoryCaptureFTW

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2007

2007 Nov 3
the continuing evolution of google

The transformation of the Matrix (also known as Google) is at hand.

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2007 Nov 3
the under city

On the way home, I took a different route today. I absentmindedly stayed in the right-hand lanes on the Santa Ana Fwy. going north, and ended up getting shunted onto the Santa Monica Fwy. heading west.

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2006

2006 Nov 3
death cab for cutie “what sarah said”

So who’s gonna watch you die?

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