Children and sex. Recently on local social media, there was a discussion on our topless laws. Of course, there were the predictable comments about women not going topless where children might see.

Well, why not, Karen? It's utterly ridiculous when you consider what breasts are for, and what children are meant to do with them. Yes, it's true the children shouldn't be engaging in sex acts, and the details of adult sexual behavior should be kept from them, since they're not equipped to understand, e.g. BDSM and power play, yet. But if kids see a pair of boobs, if kids see naked people, or even if kids know the basic functions of body parts, they'll be fine. Lots of kids throughout human history lived in small dwellings and heard, or even saw, parents and other members of their community having sex, and they all survived the experience.

Communicable disease? Now there's something that we should be protecting children from...

• blood is thicker than water - true
• blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb - also true

Overall blood is pretty gloopy and goes down pretty well on spaghetti

"The gun is always loaded." That maxim is meant to engender proper safety habits, yet I've had people try to argue that it should always be taken literally. Then how the hell am I supposed to clean the damned thing?!

Related, but I have a hard time looking down the business end of a gun barrel, even if it's completed detached from the weapon, nothing but a steel tube. Guess the maxim worked on me!

Don’t judge a book by its cover

There's an old saying in software development: The only thing worse than no optimization is premature optimization.

It can be a true statement (if a bit hyperbolic), but far too many people seem to think it means "don't worry about performance until the end."

You should pay attention to code optimization throughout development and take time to solve rough spots periodically. You just have to know that some optimization strategies can become tech dept by gumming up on-going development.

"No news is good news" depends on the situation. If your current situation is good and you don't want it to change, then no news is good news. But if say, you're waiting to hear if you got a job you want, you want news

An idea is worth its weight in gold.

How much does an idea weigh?