Cleaning, Automation, Abortion, and more
Wednesday, 6 July 2005 by Jacob TomawThis morning I had my semiannual dental cleaning. The appointment went very smoothly. The hygienist only gave me the usually scolding because I do not floss or use mouthwash regularly. January’s checkup resulting in what Dr. Capper called ‘quadrant dentistry’ to fill 14 cavities. After that experience I can not longer listen to Eric and Kathy and not think of a dental drill. Ouch!
At work, I have been building a framework that will allow us to quickly test the batch processing portion of the program I work on. If I build it correctly, and I think I am, we will be able to quickly add new tests when we encounter new scenarios that need to be validated. Then we can run all of these tests and be sure that the system will work correctly. I am also building it in a way to facilitate performance testing. I am pretty excited about this whole project. I have embarked upon it on my own. It is not part of any project plans, but it will speed up our system testing as well as speed up and increase the accuracy of development. The challenge will be writing the correct tests.
At OpinionJournal.com, James Taranto has an article entitle ‘The Roe Effect’. It explores how the act of abortion can feed into the politics of abortion. You should read the article, but the bottom line is that the children who were aborted would have been more likely to grow up to support abortion and vote Democratically based on who their parents are. I had thought about this before, and it makes sense on the surface. The numbers Taranto presents seem sound, but he is not presenting the whole picture. Steve Sailer points out the flaws in the logic. I don’t want to steal his thunder so read the article.
Finally, I am reading this great book, Love & Hate in Jamestown. It is a history of the known, but usually not truthfully known, story of Jamestown, Va., Capt. John Smith, and Pocahontas. I am about half way through and I highly recommend it. This book has affected me in a personal way, but I will tell you about that tomorrow.
July 7th, 2005 at 21:30
Thanks Jake…
It’s about time for a new post!