Ecoutez!

Here’s the album cover art for my contribution to the 2013-2 MeFiSwap. I’m throwing together an album of 60s – 70s French lady pop. After all, I’m way into it at the moment, why wouldn’t other folks be as well? Still shoring up the track list but will post that as well once I get…

Lambda lambda lambda

It can help ya help ya help ya. It’s Python’s lambda function1! Pesky urllib2 not allowing you to construct a DELETE request? Environment Overlords not letting you install a sane http module like Requests2? Don’t like what a module you have no control over is doing for you? Lambda the damn thing! For example urllib2…

The binary scale

My manager type person just asked me if I though a proposed story was something I could bang out. To which I replied thought it was bangable. Which makes is a “1” on the binary scale. Which, if you get right down to it, is the scale that matters way more than the traditional 1…

The new phonebooks are here!

To say I’ve enjoyed the Wool1 saga by Hugh Howey is an understatement. It’s probably the best long-arc dystopian fiction I’ve ever read. For a kid coming of age in Reagan’s America, I had nightmares of how living in fallout shelters might work. The numbers of generations needed to outlive the half life of nuclear…