I love me some personal finance.
I know, some think it’s boring, but I love thinking about personal finance, the stock market, and all the ins and outs of the personal investing. I like researching stock picks, thinking about the market, and what I can do to further my own finances. In fact, I’ve [...]
I know the following will be ignored. I’ve got to try though…
Senator:
I am writing to tell you my feelings regarding the Treasury’s recent proposal to buy up to 700 billion dollars of assets from America’s financial institutions. I feel this legislation would be a disaster for the American people, and I will outline [...]
Since I only post when I feel like I have something to say, the fact that it’s been over 4 months since my last set of posts might make people think I haven’t had a lot to say recently. That would be incorrect. I have had a lot to say, but little time [...]
Since I posted my “Sling Blade Runner” answer, I’ve been in discussion with Benjamin Meyer about the puzzle, my solution, and other general topics. During this discussion, he shared his solution with me, and as a collaboration, we found a set of movie titles that is 326 movies long. The original list of [...]
Lately, I’ve been without a project to keep me busy at nights (hence all my blog posts). I’m learning python, but since my main gig is C/C++, I like to keep those skills sharp with little puzzles. While looking for interesting coding puzzles, I stumbled across a page at ITA Software that asks [...]
Recently, my wife and I went to the local Borders, and I saw O’Reilly’s Beautiful Code. Since the book has sat in my Amazon queue for months, I was excited to get a chance to peruse it. So, I gleefully sat down, cracked the cover, and proceeded to read a number of chapters.
I’ll [...]
Recently, I’ve been writing a fair amount of threaded C++ POSIX code, and (as I often do), I decided to wrap the POSIX mutexes in a convenient little wrapper class:
class Mutex
{
pthread_mutex_t mMutex;
public:
Mutex() { pthread_mutex_init(&mMutex, NULL); }
~Mutex() { pthread_mutex_destroy(&mMutex); }
void [...]
These things crawl across my floor, I can’t use them anymore.
There’s a heaven in her band, Hallelujahs in my hand.
All my patience, love’s inside — she just climbed the stairs and died.
Lights that rose, and fell again, songs that thinned out near the end.
Her voice trailed off in the end.
Though your miles are more than [...]