kurtiss.org | giving is receiving

I’ve really been slacking on that existential audit, but I promise you it’s only my record-keeping that has suffered.  Perhaps I’ll get around to fixing that.  Ahh, I love the freedom of not pandering to an audience; but on to more pressing matters:
My friend, Fayza, recently wrote about her perception of a common dilemma in […]

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It’s not often that I actually release code into the wild, so I figured I’d drop a pointer to an early beta of a project that we’ll be using on lefora, our free forum hosting service.
From jobba.TheHutt’s google code project page:
A simple, reliable, high availability, distributed job queue/worker system, written in Python.
 
Author’s note: the project […]

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This post was born out of an e-mail, then I realized I was gettin’ all high and mighty about stuff, and I figure that’s what blogs are for so, you know…
An Impractical Ideal is No Ideal
The following doesn’t constitute a plan of action, but it informs an approach to developing a plan.  Any plan of […]

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A Bit of History
It’s been almost two years now since I wrote a post listing the factors that I consider to be the most effective measures of a meaningful, contented engagement with one’s existence.  Operating at capacity, these metrics ravel into a sort of divine sonata–a pied melody–whose ability to compel and comfort goes unmatched.  […]

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In response to the foolishness here and here.
You don’t belong there, you’re too smart and effective;  you don’t belong here, you’re not a workaholic.
Be true to yourself; your job is a lifestyle.
Your creativity is your differentiator; optimize your productivity.
Have the courage to question establishment; the blogosphere has answered that question.
Startups are becoming a commodity; “startups […]

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I just listened to Elvis Mitchell’s interview with Andrew Wagner, regarding his new film, Starting Out in the Evening. Elvis asserts that the piece is largely concerned with its character’s conflicting selves–the portrayed and the perceived. Andrew’s response is simple and affirming to those of us who find ourselves in life’s midday, sauntering […]

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The upcoming passage, from Miguel De Cervantes’ Don Quixote, struck me as an hilarious anecdote. If it’s not both recognizable and shameful to you, you’re either inhuman or haven’t spent much time creating.
Let’s join our gentleman, Don Quixote, shall we? He has recently gone insane. He’s decided to become the kind of […]

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Someone recently demanded an answer from me: are you a Christian or not?! Ultimately, I think the answer most likely to come across as truthful to this person was yes, and so was the effect of my deliberation. For others who might demand a response to a similarly meaningless dichotomy, the […]

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I was never a boyscout. I never got badges, or went hiking, or helped old ladies across the street. I was infrequently prepared (let’s just call that late binding, k?). But one thing that I always admired about those kerchief-toting, three-finger-saluting momma’s boys, was their oath:
On my honour I promise that—
1. […]

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