Holey rock...

Holey rock ... on Mars...

Cat purring simulator...

Cat purring simulator ... on a web site.  That's it, the Internet is done!

Geek: great debugging stories...

Geek: great debugging stories...  A nice collection of links to great debugging stories, hosted on GitHub.  A couple of my favorites are in here, like the 500 mile email and the JVM having multi-second GC pauses (which we actually had, years earlier, on an electronic stock trading platform).  I haven't read all of these yet, but those I've sampled are all interesting (but geekly!) reads...

Should be an interesting afternoon...

Should be an interesting afternoon...  We're headed down to Salt Lake City to meet up with a good friend of my brother Scott.  He's a Buddhist monk, and he's in Salt Lake City for a conference of Buddhist monks.  Their temple just happens to be a few blocks from the Red Iguana, our favorite Mexican food place in Utah – so we're going to have some great food, and I'm sure an interesting conversation, with this monkly fellow...