Dodecarchedron

I posted an item to Twitter today regarding my architecture theme of the month:

face immense resistance to simple ideas, then watch people clamor for them once a clue sets in

This prompted a conversation with fellow architects Brandon Satrom and Mark Masterson. At first they remarked that this is not so much a theme for the month as much as a recurring phenomena. I commented that I randomly select from a pool of themes each month. This started the small flurry of conversation from TheSatch and mastermark.

Without further ado, here is a draft version of the 'Dodecarchedron'.



Feel free to embrace and extend at your whim. The themes could stand some iterative refinement.

I having a working prototype I now use for my monthly theme selection. I am hoping to report on results of its use later this year.

Based on a suggestion from Mark, I'm contemplating a version based on an icosahedron. Twelve themes does indeed seem like an insufficient buffer size for candidate themes. As Mark mentions, perhaps we will see a wave of IT organizations playing Dungeons and Architecture. :-)

But wait! There's more!

Perhaps even twenty is insufficient. Perhaps we should be considering a pentakis dodecahedron.

Enumeration of the 60 sides is left as an exercise for the reader.

Not affected

Apparently the blogger outage didn't bite me, or at least not that I noticed.

I'm sure you were on the edge of your waiting to find out this critical piece of information.

Now get back to work!

Tub o' Mini Devil Duckies - because you need 12 dozen of the little devils

Tub o' Mini Devil Duckies

And be sure to check out the other products.

Indexed to Sell

Most bloggers are familiar with gapingvoid.

Those that emjy the business card medium might Jessica Hady's work with index cards at Indexed.

She has a knack for the humorous chart and graph.

This one caught my eye.



I'm sure the fact that I'm trying to sell a house in Arizona was purely coincidental.

One year and counting. :-|

Blogging2.0-beta

I think I've struck upon a solution for the perennial problem of creating fresh new blog content.

I call it blogging2.0.

It will leverage2.0 the latest trend2.0 by respinning2.0 everything2.0 as fresh2.0 and modern2.0. Everything2.0 I write2.0 will, by definition2.0, be new2.0. No longer will I2.0 need2.0 to be worried2.0 about use2.0 of the term2.0 2.02.0.

What happens2.0 when everyone2.0 starts to mimic2.0 me2.0?

Not to worry3.0. I'll simply change3.0 to keep up with the times3.0.

I'm sure there are a few kinks to work out. Perhaps I should call it blogging2.0-beta.

Cheers2.0,
AloofSchipperke2.0-beta

SuperCoder 2000 - because you need 011000100110100101101110011000010111001001111001

From TechEBlog - SuperCoder 2000

Perhaps not suffciently aloof

Techbrew posted an article on Using Feeds to Discover Human Readability.

This prompted me to run the atom feed for the Aloof Architecture blog through the Juicystudio Readability Test.

Here are the results:

• Gunning Fog Index - 11.85
• Flesch Reading Ease - 52.80
  
• Flesch-Kincaid Grade - 7.84
  

I might refresh my understanding of the metrics, if for no other reason than to understand the difference between the Fog index and the Flesch-Kincaid numbers.

Frivolous Fog food: pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism, honorificabilitudinitatibus, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, sesquipedalian

A Weyr of Enterprise Architects

James McGovern' article The One Hundred Enterprise Architects Meme got me thinking on the topic of collective nouns for Enterprise Architects.

A mild stab at Google uncovered

• A mystery - presumes guildsmen or tradesmen
• A glass house - yaya, keep moving
  
• A jealousy - wrong kind
  

Yawn...

Here's some low-hanging fruit off the top of my head.

• A babel
• A governance
• A 3-ring binder
  

To obvious/cliché... keep moving...

Some might suggest

• A superfluity

If you follow the EA blogosphere, how about

• A conversation

Or perhaps

• A code

...

Top 10 Answers to "Do IT Architects Code?"

Tim Bray posted a follow-up to his Wide Finder series - WF IX - More, More, More. I was amused to see a reference to one of my postings.

Alas, no - I did not provide any code. This, of course, prompted an age-old question.

Without further ado, here are the top 10 answers to the question "Do IT Architects code?".

A. Why resort to code when we can torment you with PowerPoint
9. Gimme a sec - the answer is somewhere in one of these 3-ring binders
8. Only when explaining things to software weenies
7. Yes, but it was decommed around December of 99
6. No, but I know several coders
5. Most definitely! Right here in this box, next to the "Unit Test" box
4. Do models count? They're in UML!
3. map(chr hex, unpack '(A2)*', '596573')
2. Only when nobody is looking
1. Hehe... Coding is so pre-web4.2...

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