Willowbend

Tonight I bring you two gems. Gem number 1 comes from a blogger of 2 years who laments his obscurity in a genuinely funny post. Gem number 2 comes from John McCarthy, father of the Lisp family of programming languages, writes about some political and scientific issues that are close to his heart. McCarthy believes, [...]

Jeff, I’ve installed OCM, but I think my spammer is too sophisticated for it. Has anyone made a button for the comment moderation screen that sets all the comments to delete?

Odd. I don’t know exactly what grounds these folks are planning to sue on, but I’m a little skeptical. Being stupid isn’t criminal, (ok, civil problem maybe) and I’m not a big fan of litigious stuff like this. I’ll admit tough, that it feels satisfying. I’d rather organize a mass consumer bycott or something, in [...]

Update: In a sea of opinions, including my own, Mark Cuban writes something uplifting. Thanks Mark, I needed that. I’m disgusted by the ruling from the NBA suspending players for the meelee in Detriot Friday night. Second, we must re-examine the adequacy of our current security procedures in Detroit and our other 28 arenas. The [...]

I think that the suspensions handed down by the NBA are unfair. I think that Ben Wallace should have received just as much as the others. He started the chain of events. If he had not assulted Artest or thrown the towel at the Pacers none of this would have happened. Artest did an outstanding [...]

Just spam. Bummer. Update: Wow! talk about spam, I’m temporarily moderating all comments until I can figure out what to do with this flood.

I’m considering following Scobelizer’s lead and putting my cell phone number on the front page of my blog. Ok, what if I get called by some nut while I’m supposed to be in a meeting at work? Or what if they USE MY PRECIOUS MINUTES?? I’m not doing it just yet… but maybe… decisions…

Woot! Second comments! My first comments were from a co-worker. I just got two comments on my blog and I have no idea who this “hojit” is. Cool!

Update: if anyone knows how to make Textile 2 not mess with my lisp code and get all confused, I’d be obliged. I’ve been using the fiveam test framework for common lisp. It has the usual features you’d expect from an xUnit style test framework, but the programmer’s interface to it is far cry from

Nine, apparently. Mark Cuban is right. I was at a Pacers’ game recently and was surprised to see that so few fans are coming. I think it’s partly because fans want a winning team and are in a wait and see mode. I also think, though, that the production value of the televised games is [...]