From the "Lord of Chaos"
Never wait to know everything.
(x-post) Dynamic RSpec Tests
I've posted a sample over at coderwall.com on building dynamic RSpec tests. https://coderwall.com/p/5kfxhg
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Feminism is "Responsible" for Sandy Hook
Journalistic analysis is really not on the rise; how EVER did the News Corp have to write down 1B$ in assets this year because of their publishing business?
The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.
Reality is Thin Ice
Reality is thin ice.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Recently on last.fm
A small sampling of what I have scrobbled
Second Coming by Yeats
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned
Facebook Debuts Open Compute Project
Highly efficient data centers are the secret to green and cheap
De Rebus Modernis Visis Musicae
Regarding the Modern Music Video
Absurd Article
In a world where the debt ceiling is cracking and terrorists are attacking Oslo, for *The Economist* to publish something like this is the news-worthy equivalent of a summary of RuPaul's drag race.
Newest Move from Wisconsin
Gov. Scott Walker closes 10 Democratic district's DMVs after requiring photo IDs at the poll booth.
The New PDF
Wolfram Launches New Document Format
Married, With Infidelities
Dan Savage, the NYT, and fucking around.
Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Litany by Billy Collins
You are the white apron of the baker, and the marsh birds suddenly in flight. However, you are not the wind in the orchard, the plums on the counter, or the house of cards.
Bill Cunningham New York
"Don't you know who he is? He's the most important person in the world." This indepedent film was delicately phrased throughout, and series of snapshots and quick glimpses within the narrative of this man's humble life. A photographer who rubs shoulders with Lady Astor, and yet repairs his $5 poncho...
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems.
WTF? No Scrobbling from Pandora or Grooveshark
Manical window-phobia won out over a curio.
Migrating to Jekyll
Thanks a lot to [Derek Watson](https://gist.github.com/867468) for this code to import from Tumblr.
If you tell me I have to double the profit of Hermès, I will do it tomorrow. But then you'd have no Hermès left in five years.
O Jerusalem
I cannot say that I pleased to say that perhaps I am now capable of finishing.
Holy Writ tells us in the Book of Revelations that at the end of days 'He will wipe every tear from their eyes.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what He will need to do.
Heaven, I'm in
I'm waking from a vivid dream in yet another place; the life of the consultant seems unnaturally inclined toward foreign bedrooms. I need to get over that moment of confusion and irritation at expecting a more familiar ceiling.
Ozymandias, or A Morality Play
A ruin is a reminder that a culture lived as we live today - loved as fiercely, drank as deeply, warred as foolishly. I am forced as a student of the Classics to believe in the tidal power of ancient societies, because while their amenities might not have included air conditioning, their lives, as [Thomas](http://www.bigeye.com/donotgo.htm) mused, forked lightning that illuminates the looming uncertain darkness of our own future.
The musical temple in Hampi
The musical temple in Hampi where the *temple* is the instrument--hollow columns are played like chimes.
Programming is like sex: One mistake and you're providing support for a lifetime.
Backlog of Prayers
I am forced to wonder if there were a way to buy a pre-prayed rosary at Catholic sanctuaries.
Oubliette
It was cancer, though, / that faded your lips from red to blue. / I can’t forget that.
Notes on Scandal
Ah, but what a god! He who makes the highest temples of heaven tremble with his explosions! / Should not I, a poor little man, do the same? / I did it just *this* way and am pleased.
In Praise of Dirty Capitalism
In a society that will cremate a projected 36% of its dead in 2010, any American is likely to desecrate a burial site when they camp in a beautiful stretch of woods or sail on Lake Michigan.
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Grant Park Music Festival Soars at Diminuendo
When Mr. Petrillo started providing free concerts in 1935, he wanted to have “accessible music”; however, the experience has changed. Or, more disturbing, our interpretation of the experience has changed.
Lessons Learned
India can teach us many, many things. But in the first 24 hours, this is what I learned.
Cocaine Vaccine
What are the ethical implications of parents immunizing their children without regard to the possibility that asceticism builds character, and responsibility with trust empowers?
XXIV
What I really mean to say is this - As a Classicist, I never imagined India would be the first part of his empire that I'd set foot in.
Why We're Too Sensitive
Upcoming NewSouth 'Huck Finn' Eliminates the 'N' Word
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Flowers in Paradise
Even the reflections of the flowers are visible.
22-20s Shoot Your Gun
Heavy music for a moody mood
And that is the art of camouflage
Best quote from *30 Rock*
To break free from the tedium of her own cliche
To break free from the tedium of her own cliche—that was her Christmas wish.