Genius Speaks For Itself

As I'm sure everyone has heard already, George Carlin died this week (picture kindly borrowed from Wikipedia).

We all choose to remember the people that influence us in different ways.  George is easy to memorialize because so much of his work is so faithfully recorded.

I was able to find my favorite one of his routines on YouTube.  I've included it here for your viewing.

Make sure you listen all the way through.  He insults a lot of people early on, but if you listen to his message, you'll see that his message, while dark, actually transcends most of the rhetoric on the subject.

Crash!

Saturday was eventful.  A MUNI train rear-ended another one in front of the apartment.  It was before a game, so there were tons of people around and it was a bit crazy.  There were 6 ambulances at one point.  The track was running later that day.

It's hard to appreciate the damage from the pictures.  Keep in mind that these trains have a giant steel connector that sticks out of each end about a foot or two.  For these trains to be that close, it means that two of these assemblies have met and crumpled enough to shorten the whole thing by four or five feet.  Two giant steel assemblies that are each hefty enough to hold multiple cars together--CRUNCH!

 

Random Erlang Article

We really should have tried harder to hire Yariv.  He's an awesome guy.  I recently found this on his blog.

It's an excellent comparison of Erlang and Scala.  However, it's even better as a very concise, succinct explanation of how the pieces of Erlang fit together to make it so useful.