View From the Bushes

Today I appear to be in the zone. That magical state of being where I actually work. Some people would even go so far as to say that I reach the point where I'm actually having a positive affect on the world rather than a negative one. I wouldn't go that far, but then I know things they don't, like where the bodies are buried... Assuming I can stay in a productive groove, I should have no problem getting out a new adventure by Saturday, though this adventure is probably the longest one I've published (good for you guys, kind of bad for me) so hopefully I didn't speak to soon. The last 10% of an adventure does have a way of taking as much time as the first 90%.

In reference to a comment from yesterday: Historically I would agree that Tour de France podiums have had quite a bit of variation from year to year. But in the more modern era of cycling there has been some remarkably consistent performers. Armstrong, Ullrich and Beloki have all made it on the podium every time they raced the Tour (with the obvious caveat that we're talking about the post-cancer Lance and the last year when Beloki crashed). I admit that's not a very large data set, and I still think that the odds are against me, but only time will tell. I guess this would also be a good time to point out that Beloki isn't riding in this year's tour.

Well, lest I lose my will to work (and perhaps my will to live) with more vapid blogging, I'll end. Though if you're at all interested in the evolution and history of programming languages you should take a look at this chart of the evolution of programming languages from O'reilly. I didn't realize that Fortran was the oldest computer language...

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