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What If White Rock Renewed All Things ?
Submitted by Pete Carapetyan on Sun, 05/11/2008 - 00:46.
Could there really be a "Fountain of Youth" ?
When Ponce de Leon went to the "New World" to discover the fountain of youth over 500 years ago, there was apparently this goofy belief that there could be such a thing as a place you could go that would make you younger.
What a silly idea - and welcome to White Rock Lake, in my home town of Dallas, Texas, where it really comes true.
What If Memory Leaks Were Plumbed At JavaMUG Tonight ?
Submitted by Pete Carapetyan on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 02:17.Sun's Gregg Sporar presented at JavaMUG tonight on memory leaks. We had a really good crowd, about 58 people.
The biggest thing I picked up from the presentation is why there would ever even be any memory leaks - because I would never write any in my programs, of course. So I had to learn how others might write leaks that I would be asked to fix. :) Never lie, either, except in this blog.
What If We Had A Poetry Slam On Easter Weekend In Austin ?
Submitted by Pete Carapetyan on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 03:37.Poetry can be dreadfully serious stuff. Or so I've been told, wouldn't know, I always avoid that kind of poetry moment.
Not this time ! No Serious Readings For Sure !
We're going to have a Poetry Slam at the folks house on March 22 from 3-5 PM, and there may not be a serious moment in the whole affair !
What If Sunday Was Ropes Course Day ?
Submitted by Pete Carapetyan on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 13:44.No paid circus performer here, this was my friend Jason jumping off of a 35' high (?) telephone pole onto a trapeze bar. Just about the entire group made it on this jump. More than a little bit scary.
What If Simplicity Was The Focus Of Great Men ?
Submitted by Pete Carapetyan on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 22:01.Complex things are not useful; useful things are not complex. Mikail Kalishnakov
What If A Developer Had Sales Skills ?
Submitted by Pete Carapetyan on Mon, 02/11/2008 - 12:58.If a developer considered sales as part of his job, it might alter the process quite a bit.. My current boss says he considers me "a change agent" which is a fancy term for a "pain in the butt", far as I can tell. "You're not going to propose that we use groovy or grails or maven again, are you ?"
A new technology, on my current assignment, is defined as anything that came on the scene after 1999, far as I can tell. Ant is a new technology, for example. :(
What If A Tree Didn't Fall In The Forest ?
Submitted by Pete Carapetyan on Sat, 02/09/2008 - 11:22.Updated Feb 11, 2008 with new photos - all at bottom.
What if the tree was in an artist's community ?
... and it hadn't fallen yet ? It was dead, sure. But dead trees sometimes take years to fall.
What If I Pegged My Top 10 Favorite Movies ?
Submitted by Pete Carapetyan on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 21:24.There seems to be some kind of theme involving triumph of the human spirit ( or it's inverse, in the case of Ran and Dead Poet's Society )
What If Austin Texas Taught Me A Lesson About Stop Signs ?
Submitted by Pete Carapetyan on Sun, 02/03/2008 - 13:16.Even if you are only going 2 miles an hour, don't run stop signs, especially on a bicycle, and especially in Austin Texas.
This is where I learned my first lesson.
I was at this stop sign a couple months ago, and I rode through it without fully stopping. I shouldn't have done it, but I did.
