To be the fastest

Fun story by a former SR-71 pilot about just a regular day at 1900 knots...

There were a lot of things we couldn't do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact. People often asked us if, because of this fact, it was fun to fly the jet. Fun would not be the first word I would use to describe flying this plane—intense, maybe, even cerebral. But there was one day in our Sled experience when we would have to say that it was pure fun to be the fastest guys out there, at least for a moment.
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Just had some amazing Kakipea (aka rice crackers with roasted peanuts)

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Some visitors from Japan recently swung by the Posterous offices. They brought gifts of delicious Japanese snacks. I tried some this evening and I was immediately hooked. Unfortunately, the packaging was TOTALLY IN JAPANESE.

However, through the magic of Google, I've discovered not only what they are called but who makes them and where I can find them.

I love the Internet. We are blessed in a trillion ways.

The etymology of the word draconian

This concept of failing on the first error became known as “draconian error handling,” after the Greek leader Draco who instituted the death penalty for relatively minor infractions of his laws.
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Plutarch said:

It is said that Drakon himself, when asked why he had fixed the punishment of death for most offences, answered that he considered these lesser crimes to deserve it, and he had no greater punishment for more important ones

If you smoke a lot of weed and try to write about technology, this is what you get.

What happens now is that these stream objects are lit up with transactional properties. Code gets run based on incoming events, pulling it out of the teeming inbox before we see it and converted into actions predetermined by our inference engines and workflow rules. “If Retweet equals Member of Strategy Group, add to midmorning direct message queue.” “If Silverlight press conference transcript feed contains question from Mary Jo Foley, route to broker queue with Unload flag.” And so on.

This is not AI or smart computing; it’s harvesting social signals in the context of realtime economics.

--Steve Gillmor via techcrunch.com

I dig it, it's poetry right? Right Steve? You're so beat.

*snaps fingers*