The past couple of weeks, I’ve been watching and enjoying the cartoon “Justice League Unlimited”. It doesn’t completely feel like a cartoon for kids as some of it’s themes are fairly mature. Made me think of the cartoons from my childhood. I grew up in the heyday of cartoons and toy merchandizing (the 80s!!!!) which makes this trip down memory lane doubly nostalgic.

This is the extent of the cartoons I remember:
Robotech
- Veritechs, SDF, Invid, Zentradi, MinMei’s irritating songs
Transformers
- Canonical giant transforming robots
He Man
- Superman-like hero with a big sword
MASK
- Transforming vehicles but no giant robots
Centurions
- Cool exoskeletally enhanced counter terrorism force
Silverhawks
- Space variant of the Thundercats
Visionaries
- Knights of the round table with magical technology
BraveStarr
- A sheriff with animal powers on the frontier in outer space
Galaxy Rangers
- Super human cowboys defending humanity in the future
Thunderbirds 2086
- Variant of the original Thunderbirds but with cooler vehicles
Saber Rider
- Space cowboys on the frontier with Giant combining robot
Star Com
- GI Joe in Space
Bionic Six
- The Bionic Family
Gobots
- More transforming robots

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Interesting article and better commentary.

Typing and programming languages, a brief synopsis from the ever excellent C2 wiki: TypingQuadrant

The four quadrants:
StaticTyping vs DynamicTyping
StronglyTyped vs WeaklyTyped

As always what puts a language into one quadrant or another seems to be a fine line that is very much a matter of debate. It appears to be more degrees of “typeness” than anything else.

Interestingly enough, it is unclear what implicit type conversions do to “typeness” of a language.

Of course this this form of typing is very clear cut.

“Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly” (Anthony Bourdain)

I just finished listening to this a couple of minutes ago. It does have foul language but worth a listen if you’re interested in how the restaurant business works. After listening to it, I realized that all creative industries follow similar patterns. The only difference is the palates we serve.

Link: f**k for forest.

I guess it true what they say about porn. It pays. I guess that is one way to raise money for the environment. (I wonder if this counts as a charitable donation).

BTW. Not Safe for Work.

Some solutions as I work through Yet Another Haskell Tutorial:

filter isLower “AbCdE”

length $ filter isLower “AbCdE”

foldl max 0 [5,10,2,8,1]

fst $ head $ tail [(5,1),(2,3),(4,1)]

Link: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: A Realistic Assessment of How Many 12-Year-Olds I Could Beat Up Before They Overtook Me..

Being a wrestling entertainment watcher, I figure I can take 2 dozen easy. A combination of clothelines, DDTs and powerbombs should do the trick.