Mathew Baldwin’s Blog
January 11, 2006 – 5:31 pmI’m plugging my good friend and colleague, Mathew Baldwin here. His blog is targeted at Windows systems engineers and programmers.
Microsoft Case Study
November 6, 2005 – 4:14 pmI’m proud to have contributed to this Microsoft Case Study on my project for Affinity Internet. The case study is available in Microsoft Word format here.
L’Shana Tova
October 4, 2005 – 9:27 amThe Jewish New Year is a time focused on introspection, looking back at the mistakes of the past year and planning the positive changes to make in year ahead. Whether you share the same calendar that I do, please accept my wishes for health, happiness, life and peace in the weeks and months ahead.
Happy New Year!
Yoda Origami
June 12, 2005 – 11:27 amAnyone who knows me well enough is aware of my collection of Jedi Master Yoda artifacts. He’re one more I’m about to add…origami!
Try it out: http://www.pajarita.org/aep/internacionales/intern2-1.pdf
What’s Your Star Wars Name?
May 29, 2005 – 7:59 pmHow to determine YOUR Star Wars name:
Your New First Name:
1. Take the first 3 letters of your 1st name.
2. Add the first 2 letters of your last name.
Your New Last Name:
3. Take the first 2 letters of your Mom’s maiden name.
4. Add the first 3 letters of the city you were born in.
Your Star Wars Honorific Title:
1: Take the last three letters of your last name and reverse them
2: Add the first three letters of the make or model of your first car
3: Insert the word “of”
4: Tack on the name of the last medication you took.
My Star Wars name is: Marri Brbro, the Namgra of Protonix
The 101 Rules of Prog Metal
May 3, 2005 – 10:48 amThanks to Chuck Ball for this one:
http://www.metalstorm.ee/fun/view_fun.php?id=18
I think I most identify with #12.
My Linguistic Profile
May 2, 2005 – 3:30 pmApparently, living in the south (if South Florida counts as “the south”) has finally infected my linguistic profile by 20%. This is quite depressing, as I have always prided myself in my untarnished Brooklynese. According to this Blogthing, my profile is as such:
Your Linguistic Profile: |
| 55% General American English |
| 25% Yankee |
| 20% Dixie |
| 0% Midwestern |
| 0% Upper Midwestern |
Take the test yourself: http://www.blogthings.com/amenglishdialecttest/
Time Traveler Convention
April 29, 2005 – 10:22 pmThe Time Traveler Convention
May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT, 2 hours past sunset (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
East Campus Courtyard, MIT
42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W
(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)
A Perfect Priest
April 6, 2005 – 8:50 pmMany would be surprised to learn some of the great things about Pope John Paul II written by Rabbi Marc Gellman (Temple Beth Torah in Melville, NY). Here’s an excerpt that has reshaped my opinion of the late Karol Wojtyla:
Once, just after World War II, a mother came to a priest and told him that she had a Jewish baby given to her by parents who were later murdered at Auschwitz. She wanted to know if it was religiously proper to have the child baptized and raise him as a Catholic. The priest ordered the woman to look for the closest Jewish relative of that baby boy and return the child to his family and to Judaism. Karol Wojtyla was that priest. A theologian probably would have baptized the baby. A run-of-the-mill Polish priest of the 1930s definitely would have baptized the baby. But because he was a perfect priest he never thought twice about bringing a lost sheep home to its wounded flock. And because he loved Jews and had many Jewish friends and even played goalie on a Jewish soccer team, he was able to deliver the message of Vatican II and its encyclical Nostra Aetate, which was brought to life by the perfect priest Angelo Roncalli, Pope John XXIII. John Paul II took the poison of anti-Semitism out of the church because he had first taken it out of himself. He did not permit the teaching of contempt for my people as a pope because he did not allow it as a perfect priest.
13,944 Lines of Code
February 3, 2005 – 10:32 pmWhy on Earth would my good friends at Mozilla put up with a single module of C++ consisting of 13,944 lines of code?
You guys know better than that!
