Category Archives: Jack Handy

I think that the process of understanding something can be modeled as a path up an ascending, widening spiral. The height of a point on the spiral indicates the complexity of your model of the subject, the radius of the … Continue reading →

Editorial Note: This is specific to U.S. politics. Right now, the issue of abortion looms large in any consideration of whether or not the U.S. House of Representatives will pass the Senate’s “healthcare reform” bill, and thereby reorder the healthcare … Continue reading →

Everyone knows that it’s hard to accurately estimate the duration of a software project. At bottom, this is because you often don’t know exactly what you’re doing, or exactly how you’ll do it, which makes it hard to work out … Continue reading →

In lieu of a 6WS, 11 words from Tom Sowell that I’d be hard put to top: People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid. Catchy, I think.

Two people with two messages – different words, but the music is the same. And it’s creepy, conspiratorial music.

From Arnold Kling, via The Corner: There are two ways to approach reducing the use of high-cost, low-benefit procedures. You can have the government tell people what they can and cannot have. Or you can have individuals pay for a … Continue reading →

There’s an interesting line in this Slate article, discussing the Austin kamikaze: Sure, it may look like greed to keep 100 percent of your paycheck, but Stack was doing it all for us! This little remark is in the service … Continue reading →

I pulled together all my Full-Text Search articles into a single page. And lest you think that I’m just padding out the blog with recycled content, let me add that I fixed a bug in the demo project. (It used … Continue reading →

Ok, Ebert. I enjoy a lot of Roger Ebert’s writing. I don’t always agree with his take on film, and don’t much care for his politics, but I think he’s a pretty good writer. And far be it from me … Continue reading →

Trivia: Almost nothing is known of the St. Valentine commemorated on 14 February. Cesare Borgia was also known as Duke Valentine.