NOBODY SAID THERE’D BE MATH! COVID-19, Number Blindness and the Monolithic Legacy Media.
Author Archive: Charlie Martin
March 7, 2020
DON’T HAVE COVID-19? THANK TRUMP! We Can Thank Trump for the United States Having Such a Low Per-Capita Infection Rate of Coronavirus.
March 6, 2020
IN MY PERFECT WORLD, JOURNALISTS WOULD READ AND UNDERSTAND BEFORE SETTING A MATCH TO THEIR HAIR GEL: COVID-19 and Mortality: Trump and WHO Are Both Right.
Oh, and everyone going “durr, Trump’s an idiot!” note that exactly the same point is being made in The Hill today:
Experts warn that the figure from WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus comes full of caveats and is likely to change as more people get tested and undergo treatment for the virus.
“I think it’s lower because we are missing mild cases,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
March 5, 2020
HELLO, WORLD! NOT JUST FOR BEGINNERS: A modern ‘Hello, World’ program needs more than just code.
Another piece at the Stack Overflow blog.
March 4, 2020
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: Writing with Tomatoes and Supertomatoes
I’d probably have been diagnosed with ADHD if it had been invented when I was a kid. This is about one way I work around it to get writing done.
February 29, 2020
February 27, 2020
MEGAN FOX ON THE RADIO: Megan (our Megan, not Transformers Megan) will be on the Mark Griffiths show KLZ 560 AM in the Denver area, at 3PM Eastern Time today, 1PM Mountain Time.
You can listen on the web at https://www.klzradio.com/
February 26, 2020
WHEN SOMEONE TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM: The NY Times Is Telling Us The Dictatorship They Want
February 23, 2020
CRISIS IS INEVITABLE. DRAMA IS OPTIONAL: Software Project Management and the inevitable Crisis
This is another “day job” piece. There seems to be a lot of interest among the Instapundit readers on this stuff.
February 20, 2020
HITTING MOVING TARGETS IS HARD: Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering.
This is another “day job” piece and my first publication on the Stack Overflow blog.
February 13, 2020
February 12, 2020
BOYS WILL BE GIRLS? Female Athletes File Title IX Lawsuit to Reverse Unfair Trans Rules.
February 11, 2020
WITH SPECIAL FIREBALL XL5 ACTION: Florida Gets First Space Force Base.
I’m disappointed that Peterson AFB wasn’t the first, but still, I love having Space Force bases now.
NO ONE REMEMBERS ROBESPIERRE: Lunatic Stripping ‘Non-Binary’ Socialist Challenging Sen. Susan Collins Gives Away Guillotine T-Shirts
February 10, 2020
HEAR MY DULCET TONES ON YOUR OWN COMPUTER, PHONE, OR RADIO: I’ll be appearing on the Mark Griffith show on KLZ Radio in Denver at 1PM Mountain Time, 3PM Eastern time.
The Mark Griffith Show airs weekdays at 1pm MT. Folks can listen 3 ways: In Denver at 560 KLZ on the AM dial. Online at www.klzradio.com or with the “Tunein” app on your phone.
February 7, 2020
WHO KNEW BIDEN WAS THIS IN TOUCH WITH REALITY? Strong Start: Joe Biden Starts NH Debate by Admitting He’ll Lose New Hampshire
February 6, 2020
IF IT SEEMS STUPID, IT PROBABLY IS STUPID: Understanding the Iowa Caucus Cock-Up
February 5, 2020
MAYBE PELOSI REALLY IS A DEEEP-COVER GOP OPERATIVE: BACKFIRE: ‘I Will Never Vote Democrat Again,’ Say Angry Dems on C-SPAN After Pelosi’s Tantrum.
“WHO DOES THE GRAIL SERVE?”: Bolton and The First Law of Leaks
MY CODING BOOTCAMP STUDENTS WOULDN’T GET A PASSING GRADE: Coding the Iowa Caucus for Fun and Profit
OKAY, SOME DEMOCRATS WERE ABLE TO SIT THROUGH THEIR SPANKING: Dem Women in White Sit While Trump Announces Lowest Minority Unemployment Numbers EVER.
February 4, 2020
SOMEONE CALL CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES because Trump just delivered a spanking that will keep admitted Democrats from sitting down for a week.
FIRST COMMENT: “Pelosi actually ripped up Trump’s speech. I think she needs a timeout.”