Asymptomatic

There must be intelligent life down here

This is what happens
February 22, 2005

This is what happens when you don’t sit at the screen and reload your stats info:

You get listed in the top ranks of DayPop (shown), Furl, del.icio.us, and others and don’t even realize it until your server starts to act like it’s in a pool of molasses. One day you’re minding your own business, writing some code, and then it sneaks up on you…

Li Xian and the Stack of Code
February 21, 2005

I used to work with a Chinese woman named Lucy. She was a “programmer” too, and Chinese in the way that one is born in China and speaks English as a second language. I’m just trying to visualize this for you - no prejudices here, at least not to Chinese folks or women.

After many weeks of working together on different projects, I learned that this woman’s name was not Lucy. It was, in fact, “Li”. She had been introduced to me as “Lucy”, and I was calling her that for the weeks that I had known her.