Lately I’ve been reading an interesting blog about a girl that sees the world pretty much as I’d like to see it, and one excerpt from the latest post caught my attention

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Even though there was an extremely slim chance of me and my place being in any danger, I packed up my stuff and evacuated. The way people are saved in huge disasters is through prompt and thorough reactions. If I had waited until I was in danger, I would have contributed to clogging the single freeway, lost more of my stuff, and put others in danger too. The proper response to an emergency is not denial, not panic, but rational, precautionary steps.

Emphasis mine.

That’s one piece of advise we could extrapolate to everything, I think, and I’d like to bring it to my field: Programming.

How many projects have you worked on, where it’s very smooth and quiet at the beginning, just to plunge into chaos towards the end? I know I have worked on many. Don’t you think it would be better to take that approach? Not falling in denial and panic, but taking steps to guarantee the success, or at least minimize loses. There are some books on that topic that are very interesting.

What about if you are in a job you don’t like? Are you going to wait until it’s unbearable and you have to go job hunting in a hurry because you can’t take it anymore? No. Rational, precautionary steps. Start slow, start searching when you have the time to search well, research, compare, decide with facts.

What about any other aspect of life?

Today is the 256th day of the year, because this year is a leap year, programmer day is on the 12th instead of the 13th.

So... happy programmer's day!

And as a nice treat, Iceberg is buying pizzas for us all today, isn't that cool? =)

I discovered this group a little while ago, and I really love them (specially the last album, "snacktime"). I highly recommend you listen to them. 

I couldn't find the lyrics for this song anywhere in the whole internet... so I typed them myself.

The only sentence I don't understand is the sixth one in the first paragraph (marked with "??"). If you can understand it, please leave a comment =)

Thanks to Sebastian Canevari for the help!

Barenaked Ladies - A word for that
Snacktime

There's a word for that
but I don't seem to know it
sometimes I grow a moustache
just so I don't have to show it
The word for that
that someone somewhere chose
for that little dented skin
between my upper lip and nose

There's a word for that
What does it start with?
The word for that
I'd sound so smart if I only knew
The word for that
Perhaps you do

The word you're looking for is philtrum

There's a word for that
it may come to me soon
it dangles down in my mouth
and is often in cartoons
The word for that
it seems like such a drag
to not know what to call that little fleshy punching bag

There's a word for that
What does it start with?
The word for that
I'd sound so smart if I only knew
The word for that
Perhaps you do

D'you mean uvula?

There's a word for that
it's on the tip of my tongue
well, actually underneath it
and has been since I was young
The word for that
although i wouldn't quote
it likely stops my tongue from dissapearing down my throat

There's a word for that
What does it start with?
The word for that
I'd sound so smart if I only knew
The word for that
Perhaps you do

What does it start with?
The word for that
I'd sound so smart if I only knew
The word for that
Perhaps you do

Oy, you nuts, it's frenulum

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started.
Wait...
The Earth began to cool,
The autotrophs began to drool,
Neanderthals developed tools,
We built a wall (we built the pyramids),
Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries,
That all started with the big bang!