• This task is unpleasant, but it must be done
• Why do so few unwrap the gift of Santa Claus?
• Mr. Lincoln in the pit with a broadsword
• Truth is a niche market
• Anthropogenics
• Solution orientation
• Best mission statement ever
• Shortcuts
• Blame “George Bailey”, not “It’s a Wonderful Life”
• Doing what you must to get what you want
• You don’t even know what you’re procrastinating on
• Why so many self-help books?
• Amount of time spent on a project isn’t what counts — it’s the amount of uninterrupted time
• The time is never right
• The career importance of speaking up
• SystemVerilog 2009 close to ballot
• SystemVerilog 2009 goes to ballot — 18/Feb thru 20/March
• Standards, like the wheels of justice, grind slowly
• The “bridge” personality: a key to success for multidisciplinary projects
• SytemVerilog 2012
• Extending Amdahl’s law for energy-efficient computing
• Gung Ho
• Middle age
• SystemVerilog and unconstrained array types
• Chemo brain
• Suffering
• Thirteen thousand in a lifetime
• SystemVerilog 2009 design enhancements
• The wasteful electrical power grid
• Dr. Now
• Lincoln’s advanced views of the rights of labor
• Those few intensely alive days
• If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?
• Total quality
• Ugly code
• Robots, you’re hired
• Get into your discomfort zone
• Follow-up
• Vivid details of a completely different kind of life
• Imagination is the key to vocal mimicry
• Whenever we’d get stuck, we’d remember how Walt did it on that night.
• Science fiction
• Forget the past to win the future
• Julius Caesar
• Norman Lebrecht on “The clapped-out legacy of Karajan that impoverished classical music”
• The intellectual links between China and India
• Lincoln, MacBeth, and why art matters
• That old poisoner Wagner, and why art matters
• Asymmetric interactions in symmetric multi-core systems
• In SystemVerilog arrays of interfaces are in some ways more powerful than generate
• Notes on Kleinberg’s “The Convergence of Social and Technological Networks”
• Highlights of Cantrill and Bonwick’s “Real-world Concurrency”
• Just say no
• Learning is not a comfortable activity
• The trouble with the funny pages nowadays? Not enough pummeling
• Look at yourself as a point in the distribution
• If you’ve got time for TV, you’re not busy
• Bad guy history
• Getting right with Lincoln
• 40 to 50 percent of all US food ready for harvest never gets eaten
• Stay close to the noncustomer
• The next-generation electric motor
• Who killed the electric streetcar?
• “I” as the side-effect of a personal narrative
• Axis mundi
• To see ourselves as others see us
• Verilog edge-sensitive event controls
• Happy New Year 2009!
• SystemVerilog 2009 ballot delayed by one month
• Is the universe a computer-generated simulation?
• Cut costs by saving time
• Speed reading
• Working yourself sick has lousy ROI
• A semantics for SVA local variables that preserves the distributivity of intersection
• Most people are basically good — approximately 94%
• R programming language
• Cannibal locusts
• Exploiting chaos to store and process information
• Why Gaia rains
• Creativity comes in two distinct types — quick and dramatic, or careful and quiet
• Islamism and Jew-hatred
• The vision thing
• Two kinds of gourmet food
• The myth that the Gulf Stream is responsible for keeping Europe anomalously warm
• Wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces
• Fast forward
• wonglediff
• The myth of medieval flat-earthism
• When you find yourself above-average, it’s time to take it to the next level
• The heroic imagination
• Food miles — a distracting marketing fad
• The 0-1-2 effect
• Does a career need to be continuous and linear?
• The demise of the American chestnut
• The great books speak with everyone
• Biochar — the carbon negative topsoil doctor
• Choose or lose
• Almost everything we say about monetary policy is wrong
• Phononics
• True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar
• Background music does not swell and trumpets do not sound
• Practice only makes perfect if you’re paying attention
• Find the strangest thing and explore it
• Creativity is more likely to occur when people are positive and buoyant
• The kawaii factor
• Do not put your trust in chariots and weapons
• The “Business Plot” of 1933
• The American addiction to narratives of innocence
• Classic ads
• First and second sleep
• The myth of the “Twinkie defense”
• 5/5 — the story behind Bob Dylan’s “Isis”
• Gloom, amber, azure, teal
• The Berkeley view of cloud computing
• Fewer fevers, more cancers?
• Visual metaphor for global warming
• Patenting constrained random test generation
• SystemVerilog subtypes
• Electronic System Level (ESL) design goes mainstream
• Global warming could suffocate the sea
• The chief accuser of mankind
• Presenteeism
• Random comments
• The guru of lying
• The end of alone? Probably not
• Network-on-chip needs standardization to reach full potential
• You are never going to get caught up
• Does procrastination reveal our gifts?
• Simulating a neuron day in a second
• Green man
• Grounded
• Blue
• Active seeing
• Scalable synchronous queues
• Draft of SystemVerilog 2009 available for purchase at IEEE store
• Memristors in the picture
• SystemVerilog 2009 ballot comments available
• Intel Larrabee: multicore made C++ simple
• Noisy logic
• Dining table with retractable semi-circular leaf
• Why art matters, and how literature professors could, too
• Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) — computing needs time
• System Verilog 2009
• Climate change denialism
• That which we call SystemVerilog
• No one saw it because no one expected to see it
• Strunk and White — 50 years of stupid grammar advice
• Phoners more emotionally involved when using left ear?