Events

At a campaign rally in Burlington, Vt., 26 September 1992: Kodachrome 64, exposure unrecorded, Canon T-90 probably with Tamron 35-210mm at 35mm.

I'm not sure if this worked, but I liked the shot anyway. Trump Tower is on the right; the Equitable Building is on the left: 17 June 2011, ISO-100, 1/250 at f/5.6, 55mm, taken here.

Last one from Lisbon, on the plaza surrounding the Castelo de São Jorge: 13 January 2011, ISO-400, 1/250 at f/8, 55mm, here.

In honor of Parker's birthday: 1 October 2006, ISO-400, 1/200 at f/5.6, 18mm, Evanston, Ill.

The fuzzy dude turns 5 today: Parker's Petfinder mugshot, at 8 weeks old.

Andrew Binstock, editor of Dr. Dobb's, has a pair of editorials in praise of and instruction to create small classes: High levels of complexity, generally measured with the suboptimal cyclomatic complexity measure (CCR), is what the agile folks correctly term a "code smell." Intricate code doesn't smell right. According to numerous studies, it generally contains a higher number of defects and it's hard — sometimes impossible — to maintain. ... My question, though, is how to avoid creating complexity in...

I've always thought this photo looked cool: October 1985, Northbrook, Ill., Kodachrome-64.

Adam Mansbach's new book hasn't hit stores yet, but already Audible.com has it available for (free!) download, narrated by—wait for it—Samuel L. Jackson. Brilliant. Feckin' brilliant.

The UK Independent's Jon Rantoul won't be using clichés any time soon: Normally, though, politicians are the worst offenders. It is not clear how much they themselves are to blame, or how much they are simply overwhelmed by the substandard drafting of civil servants and speech writers. Perhaps they lack the time to put a pen through it and rewrite it themselves. It is a national scandal that the Civil Service provides such ghastly drafting of official documents, full of turgid abstractions that are...

Along a public footpath, Amberley, West Sussex, U.K.: 14 August 2009, ISO-100, 1/250 at f/8, 18mm, here.