Various news sites are reporting the passing of Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of UNIX and creator of the C programming language.
Edited to add: NYT obit here. LAT obit here.
Archive for October, 2011
Obit watch: October 13, 2011.
Thursday, October 13th, 2011Administrative note.
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011I’ve closed comments on posts older than 90 days in attempt to keep up with spam.
My blog is nowhere near as popular (or good) as Popehat, where I got the idea, but I was still dealing with upwards of 300+ spam messages a day in the filter. Comments on posts older than 90 days have been closed since Monday, and I’ve seen about a 2/3rds decrease.
If you do want to leave a comment on an older post, you’re more than welcome to use the “Contact the proprietor” link and drop me an email.
Just in time for Christmas.
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011Sean Sorrentino is doing a third run of Project Gunwalker t-shirts.
This is great news. As a proud owner of one of Sean’s shirts, I’m considering ordering two or three more. Remember, these shirts make great presents for any major holiday: Christmas, Easter, Hanukkah, Ashura, even Armistice Day (though from what Sean says, the shirts may ship a little late for that one).
Edited to add: Now in pink!
Today’s bulletin from the Department of WTF?!
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011Joseph Hyungmin Son, who played “Random Task” in the Austin Powers movies, is doing time in prison “after having been convicted of torture and sentenced to life in prison without parole in connection with the 1990 Christmas Eve rape of a woman out walking her dog.”
I think that was generally well known. That’s not the WTF moment.
According to the LAT, he’s now suspected of killing his cellmate. He’s been in prison for a little over three weeks now…
TMQ watch: October 11, 2011.
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011Let’s start off this week with a video:
The reasons why will become apparent. (Also, we have a couple of friends who are students of ti kwan leap.) After the jump, this week’s TMQ:
Stoops to conquer.
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011OK, maybe not so much.
Mike Stoops out as coach at the University of Arizona.
41-50 over seven and a half years, and UA is 1-5 so far this season.
(Hattip: Thanks, FARK.)
Chim chiminey chim chiminey chim chim Chimel!
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011Here’s the case brief for Chimel v. California. I ruthlessly edited it down to only three pages this time.
Chimel is interesting because it helped to define the limits of a search “incident to arrest”. Mr. Chimel was arrested, at his home, and charged with burglary of a coin shop. After he was arrested, the police searched his entire house (even having his wife move stuff around) without a warrant, and claimed they didn’t need one since their search was incident to a valid arrest.
The Court said, “Nope. Doesn’t work like that. ‘Search incident to arrest’ only covers the person and the area under the person’s immediate control. You want to search someplace other than that? Get a warrant.”
We’re wrapping this class up. Next Monday is the final; there should be one more case brief, too.
Your loser update: week 5, 2011.
Sunday, October 9th, 2011NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Miami (bye week)
Indianapolis
St. Louis (bye week)
Quote of the day.
Saturday, October 8th, 2011I am happy right now.
Indeed, I am happier than I have been at any point in the past five years.
No, I am not willing to discuss the reasons why (at least, not in public).
I will, however, leave you with the quote of the day:
And with this music video, which seems appropriate.
I am furious, Holder.
Saturday, October 8th, 2011I’m a little busy, but I’m taking a break from Chimel v. California to throw some linky-love Lawrence’s way for his “Fast and Furious” posts. Especially this most recent one about Holder, which can best be summarized as:
Obit watch: October 8, 2011.
Saturday, October 8th, 2011I always respected the man, mostly for his ability to make Pete Rozelle and the rest of the No Fun League miserable. I don’t expect you’ll hear a lot of “No, that’s God; he just thinks he’s Al Davis” jokes, but if he did make it to Heaven, I hope he has a decent quarterback.
Siracusa.
Friday, October 7th, 2011This isn’t going to become the “All Steve, all the time” blog. (“Don’t mourn: build something.”)
But I really liked this piece by John Siracusa, and wanted to point it out. This will probably be the last Jobs related link, barring something extraordinary.
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(Also, you really should be listening to Siracusa’s “Hypercritical” podcast from 5by5 Studios.)