Pablo Picasso 1907 Self Portrait
Here is a section from Pablo Picasso’s 1907 self portrait. Picasso was born on October 25, 1881. Picasso grew up in a middle class family in Malaga, Spain. His father was an art instructer and curator of an art museum. According to Picasso’s mother, his first words were “piz, piz” – short for lápiz, the Spanish word for “pencil”. Picasso is one of the most famous 20th century artists and is best known for Cubist style paintings.
Heard at Hot Chips: 20 years of what worked and what didn’t in CPU architecture.
“You might imagine that somewhere in a back room at conferences the old hands at microprocessor architecture get together over dinner and a few bottles of wine–the sort that must be concealed in expense reports–lean back in their chairs, and talk long into the night about lessons learned and lessons repeated.”
Setting the tone, Nick Tredennick characterized the industry has having been “fooled by randomness.” Architecture is not a science, he argued, because it has only self-validation. “An architect creates a new architecture, and then we let him tell us about all its advantages and conceal all its problems.”
“When people of this caliber get together, some profound thoughts precipitated out of the levity. And given the diversity of experience on the panel, their observations were remarkably consistent. Taken together, they could almost form a little handbook of how to, and not to, do a CPU architecture.”
Why would anyone brag so much about big politics?
“Jason Ellenburg is making it very big in politics. He is managing the re-election campaign of Sen. Carl Levin.”
Jason is helping Carl Levin gather more slaves for Uncle Sam’s Plantation. Why would he be so proud of that?
The Michigan Grapevine says: “Carl Levin has been in the senate way too long.”
Carl Levin has been very helpful to the citizens of Michigan for the past 30 years. We can thank Carl Levin for the high price of oil, loss of jobs, destruction of business opportunities, and 30 years of nothing but empty promises filled with hot air.
Carl Levin has done so many great things for Michigan in the past 30 years, we can be thankful for all these benefits:
Jack Hoogendyk makes a lot of sense. It’s time for real change in Michigan. It’s time to return to core principles. Jack has great ideas for bringing business opportunities back to Michigan. Jack understands that less government means more business opportunities, faster economic growth for Michigan, and more jobs in Michigan. Jack understands that lower taxes — means we will have more money to invest in Michigan business, and the creation of Michigan jobs. That’s why I’m voting for Jack Hoogendyk for US Senate in 2008. We need a new leader — a leader who will serve the people of Michigan.
There is only one winner who will make everyone a winner in Michigan in 2008. His name is Jack Hoogendyk.