Recently the presdient of the University of Pennsylvania was let go from her position because her position on chants of “intifada” on campus. Her argument was that free speech should always be perserved. In the same round of testimony, the presidents of Harver and M.I.T. were also questioned and also answered that while the phrase translating to a Jewish genocide was horrible, it shouldn’t be stopped because of free speech. ...
Simple Merchant Cult Coins Simple Merchant Coffee has a loyalty program. Each time you get a coffee you end up with a punch in a punch card (usually a playing card). On your seventh coffee they trade in your punch card for a pocker chip they call a Cult Coin. Cult Coins are redemable for any coffee on the simple merchant menu. You can also purchase a cult coin for $7. ...
Matthew Perry has passed away, and many are sad. While there are many great pieces honoring Matthew Perry including: Daring Fireball Rolling Stone and many more, there is a side of Matthew Perry that reasonated with me that isn’t really talked about when mention his most iconic roles. While Friends was iconic, I’ll admit I missed the boat on it when it was out. I watched it casually, but did not really love it. ...
It’s taken me too long to get write this. I still don’t feel like I have enough information to write and I’m sure I might offend some in my posting. On October 7th, 2023, Hamas lead a suprise attack on Israel. They launched over 3000 rockets, they sent militants into Israel and committied attrocities. There were many types of violence. In the ensuing conflict, Israel has launched a counter offensive against Gaza and Hamas. ...
Many moons ago, I got my start in the world of software engineering playing with Ruby on Rails. With a close friend I had basically done the boilerplate for something like rails in PHP for a photography studio project we had done for our database class in college. We were the only students in the class to who were mac users at the time so we didn’t use Access like the rest of the class. We built our own thing and it was awesome. Then within a couple of months we stumbled upon Rails and the complexity of our project seemed crazy compared to how simple Rails was, even back then. ...