Lancia Ardea - Bizarre

I double backed to the Mountain View Trader Joe's parking lot a few weeks ago to inspect a catchy looking vintage car that I didn't recognize. I thought - had hoped - that it was a rare rear-engine Mercedes. Turns out it was a Lancia Ardea. It struck me so much that I snapped a couple photos.

Then, to my surprise, shortly thereafter BringaTrailer.com runs an ad for a nearly identical Lancia Ardea for sale in Hollywood. Bizarre. And they even wrote, "We don’t see this model on offer in The States very often."

Bizarre

Kirby's Third Law of Software Engineering

Always be ready to answer the question, "What have you done for me lately?"

Managers don't care if you were a super star two quarters ago. They only care what have you produced last week. And when they want to know, they want to know now. I always maintain some means to answer this question quickly: a Word document, a Jira query, a spreadsheet, a notebook. I even created an Access database for two different jobs where I had to track who I was billing to.

Kirby's Second Law of Software Engineering

Kirby's Second Law of Software
The more I get paid the smaller my desk


Also see Kirby's First Law of Software

git stash show all

Seems to me there should be a git stash show all command.
Perhaps there is.
Alas, I couldn't find one.

So I wrote one. Not very complicated.

#!/bin/sh
# Created by Jeff Kirby on 3/30/12.
for stash in `git stash list | sed 's/\(\w*\)\:.*/\1/'`
do
   echo
   echo "$stash Contents"
   git stash show $stash
done

Kirby's Law of Software Schedule Estimation

Kirby's Law

Software schedule estimation is impossible.

Proof

To know how long writing software will take you have to have written it before. If you have written it before, then there is no need to be writing it now. Therefore any software that you are writing now hasn't been written before. Therefore it is impossible to estimate how long it will take.

Four Thieves?

It just dawned to me that the Avett Brothers' Pretend Love from their 2006 album Four Thieves Gone sounds an awful lot like Weird Al's I Was Only Kidding from his 1992 album Off The Deep End.

Has anyone else noticed this?

I guess it seems a lot like the minor difference between Garth Brooks's Beer Run and Todd Snider's Beer Run which was determined to be different enough to not warrant giving Snider credit for.

While we're at it: doesn't Ska favorite Skankin' Pickle's I Missed the Bus sound a lot like Kriss Kross's I Missed the Bus?

Unearthed Spring Mix

I've played this playlist repeatedly for the last week. Thought I'd share it

1. Hard To Concentrate, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stadium Arcadium
2. Just Breathe, Pearl Jam, Backspacer
3. Solitary Man, Johnny Cash, American III: Solitary Man
4. Fearless, Pink Floyd, Meddle
5. Redemption Song, Johnny Cash, Unearthed: Redemption Songs
6. Hold On, Tom Waits, Mountain Fresh Tracks
7. Driftin Through, Lindisfarne, Here Comes the Neighborhood
8. Fotunate Son, Todd Snider, Peace Queer
9. Devil's Right Hand, Johnny Cash, Unearthed: Trouble On My Mind
10. Do Ya Love, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Stay Human
11. Out Loud, Dispatch, Gut the Van
12. We Don't Stop, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Everyone Deserves Music
13. New Year's Day (Ferry Corsten Extended Radio Mix), U2 and Ferry Corsten, War (Deluxe Edition)
14. Glory of True Love, John Prine, Fair and Square
15. Working Class Hero, John Lennon, Plastic Ono Band
16. If God Will Send His Angels, U2, City of Angels
17. I Won't Back Down, Johnny Cash and Tom Petty, American III: Solitary Man
18. Heart of Gold, Johnny Cash, Unearthed: Trouble on My Mind
19. We Shall Be Reunited, Patty Griffin and Emmylou Harris, Downtown Church
20. Prairie Wedding, Mark Knopfler, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Sailing to Philadelphia
21. One, Johnny Cash, American III: Solitary Man
22. Golden, My Morning Jacket, KMTT New Music Sampler 2004
23. High Cost of Low Living, The Allman Brothers Band, Hittin The Note
24. Subdivisions, Rush, Chronicles
25. Solitary Man, Johnny Cash and Tom Petty, American III: Solitary Man

I tried to do this on imeem which became MySpace but I couldn't find all the songs.