Clint at ccombs.net

This was far and away my favorite Super Bowl ad. Funny!

I just ran across the following post on Facebook.

2009 Haiti GDP = $7 Billion, 9 million people; 2009 Goldman Sachs bonus pool = $21 Billion, 30,000 people.

After rolling my eyes at this kind of rhetoric, I posted the following response.

Maybe you'd like to compare the freedom and liberty enjoyed by the citizens of this country to that of the Haitian people. It seems proportional to the wealth, doesn't it? Instead of ridiculing freedom and prosperity, let's share it.  http://anglicanaid.net/

Question: When are the academic snobs of the left going to realize that the enormous success of this country is directly tied to our freedom and liberty?

Answer: Never.  They don't like freedom and liberty.  They prefer condescension and control over those they consider 'less fortunate' than themselves.

Update: Never is a long time and people can change.

Rich Hickey's keynote at this year's JVM Language Summit is brilliant.  If you're a programmer, then it's a must watch.  He presents a clear and relatively simple way to move forward in the ever-expanding sea of multi-core processors that we're all learning to program.

If you were to see any of the Java code I've written in recent years you'd undoubtedly notice my obsession with the final keyword.  The same holds true for 'val' in Scala.  It's well-known that immutability is a good thing when dealing with concurrency and for quite a while I've understood this simple concept in my gut.  Rich Hickey crystallizes the reasons for this gut instinct, defines the concepts of Value, Identity, State, and Time, and presents a way forward in the murky waters of parallel computing.

Go watch it.  Now.  Or as Rich might say, "perceive it."

Today NASA launched the Ares 1-X rocket to test concepts for planned missions to the Moon and Mars. As someone that grew up on the Space Coast watching my father's Atlas launches, it's exciting to see the space program moving forward.

I’m in the market for a new phone and I’d love to buy a JavaFX device.  Where (and when) are the phones?