FOB

I don't normally comment on politics (or religion, or sex) here, since I don't want to pick gratuitous fights; this blog is supposed to be about the unique interests my friends and I share, not about the common and divisive stuff of everyday discourse.

I think that may be a bit of a mistake, though. Sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe in…

While I was working on catching up some stuff here at home this evening (Friday 7:30PM), I answered the phone. After a long silence, a woman informed me that her company was doing a political research survey and launched in…

I woke up yesterday morning in Tuscon. A lovely day…

I won a poker tournament last night. It wasn't a big tournament: 20 people playing at an American Legion Hall in North Portland, with the rake mostly going to charity. $20 buy-in, with payouts of $225/$125/$75. By the time I bought a round of drinks and threw in some charity money, I came home with about $150…

I put some code and results up on BartForge yesterday. I've been exploring the performance of Haskell's concatMap function as part of learning how to write performant Haskell code. I saw some interesting things in the process: read the writeup for details.