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.

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.

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 !

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.

Complex things are not useful; useful things are not complex. Mikail Kalishnakov

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. :(

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.

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 )

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.

Paul Carapetyan is my brother, and today Wed Jan 30th is his 50th birthday. So it's OK that I would blog about him :)

 

Paul Carapetyan with his children Lucy, David, and Anna