CQ2: Ed Murphy

cabinporn: Our bookshelf: National Audubon Society Field Guide...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:49:12 -0700

cabinporn:

Our bookshelf: National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees.

Oh Canada. L’argent est-il dans le kiosque à bananes?

Mon, 13 May 2013 04:07:31 -0700

Oh Canada. L’argent est-il dans le kiosque à bananes?

cabinporn: The Floating Farmhouse in Eldred, New York. Restored...

Sun, 12 May 2013 10:12:58 -0700

cabinporn:

The Floating Farmhouse in Eldred, New York.

Restored by Givone Home. More photos.

London in 1927

Sun, 12 May 2013 10:08:58 -0700

London in 1927

An internet of things lab.

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:17:02 -0700

An internet of things lab.

sugar mill

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:07:06 -0700

sugar mill

Daft Punk Pharrell SNL Ad (by 14Kriley)

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 03:14:07 -0700

Daft Punk Pharrell SNL Ad (by 14Kriley)

“Prince John” B. Magruder Fought in the 2nd Seminole...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 03:05:24 -0700

“Prince John” B. Magruder

Fought in the 2nd Seminole War (Florida); brevetted a major at the Battle of Cerro Gordo and lieutenant colonel at Chapultepec, in an invasion of Mexico.

He served as a brigadier general and later as a major general for the Confederacy during the Civil War. Magruder fought in the Peninsula Campaign, the Battle of Yorktown, Seven Days Battles (including the Battle of Malvern Hill), and the Battle of Galveston. After the Seven Days, Robert E. Lee replaced Magruder for incompetence.

He was, according to Wikipedia, “flamboyantly handsome. He spoke with a lisp, except when singing tenor, which he did frequently. His avocation was composing songs and staging concerts and amateur theater productions.”

Magruder then served as a major general in the Imperial Mexican Army, fighting for Emperor Maximilian.

Why are these Javanese playing the ukulele? The Portuguese.

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 01:24:00 -0700

Why are these Javanese playing the ukulele? The Portuguese.

Baudelaire

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:08:31 -0700

Baudelaire

What’s the point? (by Willy Driscoll)

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:48:33 -0700

What’s the point? (by Willy Driscoll)

Riskprotektor

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:42:44 -0700

Riskprotektor

Photo

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:27:26 -0700

Squallie showers in the Chatham Islands, easing tomorrow.

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:03:00 -0700

Squallie showers in the Chatham Islands, easing tomorrow.

Portrait of Jan de Doot, by Carel van Savoyen, holding the...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:22:12 -0700

Portrait of Jan de Doot, by Carel van Savoyen, holding the kidney stone he removed from himself according to a 1652 account in the book Observationes Medicae by Nicolaes Tulp.

"I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet..."

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:24:28 -0700

““I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper’s Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman (Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting - saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them work.””

- Alexander Stepanov

Extremely Shallow Snorkelling

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:06:08 -0700

Extremely Shallow Snorkelling

Gandharan Buddha. From an Australian dealer; terracotta; ca. 3rd...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:50:57 -0700

Gandharan Buddha. From an Australian dealer; terracotta; ca. 3rd - 4th c.; 25cm

BUST OF A MONKGANDHARA, HADDA STYLE4TH - 5TH CENTURY AD28 CM

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:46:35 -0700

BUST OF A MONK
GANDHARA, HADDA STYLE
4TH - 5TH CENTURY AD
28 CM

USS Johnston, of Battle Off Samar fame

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:13:55 -0700

USS Johnston, of Battle Off Samar fame