Only in Santa Cruz

News from the land that time and neo-conservatism forgot:

Headline in today's Santa Cruz Sentinel:

Drug Suspects Rolling in Dough, Deputies Allege
Marijuana, Mushrooms, Hash, Cheesecake, and Cookie Dough found

The subtitle is only in the print version, not on-line, and I may have not gotten it exactly right. But I'm not making up the cheesecake part. Here's what it says in the 2nd graf:

...deputies found butter, cheesecake, chocolate chip cookies, cookie dough and a nut ball all laced with THC...

Thank God we're safe from these Cookie- and Cheesecake-altering fiends. I know I'll sleep better tonight.

Then, from an article (registration required, grrrr) on yesterday's record heat in the San Jose Mercury News:

Beaches from Santa Cruz to San Francisco were full of revelers, some of them nude, until the fog rolled in.

So at least they had something to cover them.

More Old-School Thinking

The very first step towards the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.

Fred Brooks, No Silver Bullet - Essence and Accident in Software Engineering