For years I have relied soley on typing to keep me in shape. Most of the frameworks I have used managed to help me keep the pounds off. They required plenty of code and my fingers were left in great condition. Then I found Ruby on Rails and the pounds started to come on. I…
Tag: Interesting
Engineers are almost perfect but not quite.
Engineers are almost perfect. No really. When we are successful you get a pat on the back. When you fail you kill people. Here are some of the worst mistakes.
Things that go boom
When I was a boy scout ( a long time ago) someone tried to heat a can of beany weenies in the fire. In the infinite wisdom of a 13 year old they didn’t crack the lid. One explosion and a rain of beanie weenies later we were all ok. At another camp someone threw…
I get tired after I eat
Now I know why. I knew that it was logical to sleep after lunch.
Thankful for Memory Today
On the way into work I was listening to ‘The Infinite Mind’ on NPR. It was a story about Caris Corfman an actress who lost her short term memory after surgery to remove a brain tumor. Her situation reminded me of the movie 50 first dates. At the time I saw the movie I had…
Well you’re a genius
I like to listen to NPR on the way in to work. This morning they ran a piece discussing what is Genius. It was especially interesting since it the commentator pointed out that genius is not merely a factor of IQ. Marilyn vos Savant holds the record for the highest IQ, 228. However, the commentator…
Domain camping and the debate about the about me
So I have owned this domain name for several years now and haven’t done anything with it which is something I really should be ashamed of (I’m not). There are other people out there with the name Justin Ball who probably would have put something here by now. In fact, there is another Justin Ball…