The personal weblog of Tom Lianza
I m honestly not sure anymore. Is there such a thing as The Truth? If so, is it important? This was a post a friend of mine put up on Facebook that really got me thinking: https://www.kekstcnc.com/media/2793/kekstcnc_research_covid-19_opinion_tracker_wave-4.pdf A new poll reveals Americans have a wildly overstated view of COVID-19 s impact with respect to total infections and [ ]
My whole adult life has consisted of me believing that our political parties were pretty similar. I ve always voted for an irrelevant candidate to send a message. It surely wasn t a loud message, but during elections people could write stories when votes for my candidate exceeded the margin of victory. There was the minor if [ ]
As consumers, I think we can identify with the basic principle that we pay for goods and services. It s how we interact with companies. As employees of a company ourselves, we have an intuitive sense that this is how our customers interact with our product or service: +----------+ Pays Money +----------+ +------------------------ [ ]
The painting Mobile Lovers by Banksy always struck a chord with me. I know I spend a lot of time looking at my phone, and am wary of it being at the expense of experiencing real life. I think it s a very powerful visual. One specific scenario in which I would really like to stop [ ]
Recently I saw some rather surprising conversations on Reddit s /r/cscareerquestions which is generally a great place to talk through different CS Career issues people are having and try to help out. In a thread about Coinbase mistreating a candidate (a legitimate complaint, it seems) someone made the assertion: You programmers are crazy with the free [ ]
I get a lot of my news from social media. I call it news but I m not sure that s the right word for it. I get stories. Lots of them. The thing about feeds of news, like 24-hour TV news, is that they have no beginning or end. I didn t really notice it before this [ ]
This morning I read an interesting post from my friend Trevin about the election and wrote a comment in response. His post was thoughtful and not at all combative, in part expressing surprise at the low voter turnout and the makeup of voters, citing: Clinton won 65% of Latinos and only 54% of women. Even [ ]
Last year I spent about a third of my time in China. I didn t post many pictures, I often travelled alone, and I had a difficult time succinctly summarizing what China is like. As a result, I don t think many people know much about my time in China. Roughly every 6 weeks I went to [ ]
A few weeks ago I spent a week and a half traveling across the country by train. I enjoy traveling. By that I don t just mean going somewhere but the whole act of traveling, including long plane rides, airports the stuff that many people dislike. Though there s some burden to having to be somewhere [ ]
Yesterday a few of us went on a 9-stop, all-day Pizza Crawl across Seattle. We hit up a series of spots based on location and reputation. Most were either Neapolitan-style or New York Style places. Facebook posts as follows: Belltown Pizza Rocco s Bambino s Queen Margherita Delancey Central Pizza Bar Cotto Big Mario s Via Tribunali