Samuel Wan

My third pass at SICP. More aha moments every time.

@waxpraxis re hype:nice! Just an idea... replace positional args in constructor with 1 dictionary arg of optional, friendly name-value pairs

Learned my lessons and am doing faster iterations of market research this time, but man, sometimes I FEEL THE NEED TO CODE!!!

wsgi + 2 middleware + cherrypy. *Entire* web stack bootstrapped in 4 lines of code. Simplest thing that could possibly work.

Using the Ideo HCD Toolkit. It's meant for NGOs, but similar constraints make it suitable for bootstrapping too.

@DevonStrawn Thnx for link. I liked the Go Forth ads too. They're timely, relevant, resonant.

@DevonStrawn where do u think java should have gone next?

@cspelsor @Chafic High 5 from D.C., and Boston in a few days :) love the architecture here (Don't know where I am though)

I'm not sure how this massage works, but it solved a week-long neck pain for me: http://www.youtube.com/watch...

second time around SICP, seeing things I didn't see the first time... http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac...

I really liked District 9, but Beyonce still had one of the best videos of all time.

@Quasimondo 5% too generous. Ideas are theories with untested assumptions. Value comes from hard work of trying, measuring, iterating again.

Reading a great paper on meta-cognition and problem solving by Alan Schoenfeld: http://mathforum.org/library...

Reading a great paper on teaching/learning cognition and problem solving by Alan H Schoenfeld: http://mathforum.org/library...

Eating frozen blueberries purchased in bulk. It's like candy, but refreshing and delicious :)

How do companies scan my tweets and then follow me? E.g. Money mechanics tweet = federal reserve news, Lullaby moon tweet = tv dance show???

Learning that the monetary system is a confidence game actually shakes my confidence.

Reading Chicago Federal Reserve's "Modern Money Mechanics" per Henry's recommendation.

http://twitpic.com/eodwl lullaby moon music and dancers on harbor steps. Debussey. Can smell the ocean.

http://twitpic.com/eobuz lullaby moon now waltzing through benaroya hall down Union & 2nd ave

http://twitpic.com/eo98v lullaby moon in front of Seattle art museum now, dancing to violinists' rachmaninov .

http://twitpic.com/eo8pp lullaby moon street art / mob thing in Seattle. Huge crowd following them through the streets and kids having fun

re: http://www.pbs.org/wnet... nevermind, the documentary jumps to questionable conclusions to serve the producer's assumptions

Excellent PBS documentary on monetary history: http://www.pbs.org/wnet...