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Deadprogrammer’s Favorite Skyscraper
My favorite skyscraper is a little obscure (like many of my favorite things). Today it’s called the AIG building. When it was built, it was called the City Services Building or Sixty Wall Tower. The...
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Amdahl : Business in the Front, Party in the Back
A few years ago I purchased a strange piece of computing history on eBay. Some guy in Canada was selling what he described as a “model” of an Amdahl processor. He did not include a picture with his...
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How the Starbucks Siren Became Less Naughty
[update] Starbucks logo changes again. You are probably here because you looked closely at the Starbucks logo and were a little confused about what is depicted on it. Is it a mermaid? What are those...
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More Investment Strategery Talk With Deadprogrammer
Two years ago I wrote about my inept investments and got derisively laughed at by my longtime virtual friend Andrew. “He heh” – he went – “PALM, HAND. You should have tried FOOT and LEG”. Indeed ,...
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Japanese Brooklyn
Victorian Brooklyn is amazingly beautiful. In Victorian times skilled labour and land was cheaper than it is today and wealthy people were able to build really elaborate and architecturally significant...
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Superstar Employee Entrance
Previously. For those not in the know – Superstar is a company, I think they were purchased by TV Guide. In any case, they shared some office space at TV Guide headquarters in Tulsa, OK.
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Delicious Monster
Bought Monstera deliciosa at Whole Foods for something like $10. This is the fruit from which Delicious Monster got its name. It looks like a dinosaur penis (if they in fact had them) and is not the...
View ArticleThe Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch
If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines, he’s busy buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News Corp. holdings—from the New York Post, Fox News, and most recently The Wall Street...
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Semi-literate Programming
I recently finished “Coders at Work“, a series of interviews with famous programmers. On one hand, reading a book like this is a downer: it’s very clear to me that I occupy a place that is very close...
View ArticleeBay and The Michigan Deposit Scam
eBay is such a horrible hassle these days. I tried selling a few things recently, and between the horrible UI, all the hassles with payments, answering questions and shipping it turned out to be a huge...
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