noah’s mark

Sometimes I hear people debating the relationship between synchronous and asynchronous execution. Or maybe distributed vs client/server architectures.  The thing to remember, in both of these cases (and a few more), these things are not dichotomous – one is completely subsumed by the other.

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A few weeks ago, Ballmer was giving a talk somewhere and got a bit chewed out from a mother about her daughter (?) who had begged her to switch to Vista, only to switch back shortly thereafter.  He told her something along the lines of, “Your daughter saw a lot of value!”, to which the lady replied, “She’s thirteen.”

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If you haven’t seen it, go out and rent the movie Wag the Dog. My favorite quote from this movie happens right after a few of the characters survive a plane crash. One character finds a small portable TV, on which less-than-agreeable news is playing. In anger, she tosses the TV to the ground, breaking it.

Robert DeNiro: Leave it alone, will ya? What did the TV ever do to you?

Lady: It destroyed the electoral process.

Before you read, go watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORv8wwiadQ.

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Pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/dakeyras/CarAccident

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If you haven’t seen it, Publix just announced that they will be giving away seven (7) common oral antibiotics (I admit, the first time I read this as oral contraceptives, since you don’t usually see “antibiotics” qualified with “oral”).  So why don’t I care?  I remember the last time I accompanied a friend to pick up a prescription for 2 weeks of one of the common antibiotics.  The sum total of her bill was…drum roll please…

$0.50.

That’s right.  Publix will now give you about 50 cents off your pharmacy bill.  Woo-fuckin-hoo.