Author: Broofa

  • A Rug-Rat Update

    Dashiell continues to grow – weighing in at 12.8lbs (clothed) yesterday.  We tried a cloth diaper for the first time last night, before going to bed.  We changed a [soaked] cloth diaper for the first time upon waking up.  We also changed the [soaked] outfit he was wearing.  If it also soaked the bed sheets…

  • Life is Good

    Dashiell Robert Kieffer 8.44 lbs, 21″, Born March 27, 9:54pm. Life’s good, friends. Life is very good.

  • The TARP Volley

    Congress votes to spend ,000,000,000,000 (one trillion dollars) in taxpayer money on the bailout plan.  AIG gets a hefty chunk of that  – 0,000,000,000, or about ,600 per U.S. household.  AIG pays out 5,000,000 in bonuses (~.46 per household) to executives.  The media fails to put the proper context on this and creates a political…

  • Prototype bind() Performance

    [UPDATE: 2009-03-11 – Noticed a bug in the test code and had to redo all the tests.] [UPDATE: 2009-03-11 – Refactored test code and included trunk variant from Tobie Langel (core Prototype team member)] [UPDATE: 2009-03-12 – Added tests for Kangax’s solution, added “Improved” test – a hybrid of Kangax+Broofa] I recently proposed an alternate…

  • Truths Lost

    The recent revelations emerging from the CIA about the 92 tapes they destroyed – tapes that documented their interrogations of two Al Qaida terrorist suspects – evoke a hard-to-explain anger.  It is an emotional reaction that comes from somewhere primal, and I don’t completely understand it.  I had this same reaction upon hearing of the…