Hi, I'm Stagnated Turd. Nice To Meet You.

I love word games like Scrabble and Boggle, which Wikipedia technically defines as letter arrangement games, a type of (I shit you not) Language-Predicated Educational Game, the existence of which phrase makes me question the reliability of Wikipedia editors, or at least their judgment so far as Standard English is concerned.

I recently saw Word Wars, a documentary about competitive Scrabble. That led me via Google search to Eric Lippert's post about cracking anagrams programatically, which got me to thinking about one of my favorite novelty sites, the Internet Anagram Server (which by the way is an anagram for I, Rearrangement Servant, an awesome anagram if ever there was one).

I've used the Internet Anagram Server quite a bit over the last couple years. Type in a word and it gives you all the possible anagrams for that word, including multi-word anagrams. This is how I know that my name (Daniel Stuttgard) is a perfect anagram for stagnated turd which kind of sucks but oh well. The point is that I'm pretty good at anagrams.

My Favorite Bloggers

Isaac Newton said it best:

If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.

So before getting into blogging proper I thought I should take a minute to lay down some love for the bloggers/authors/writers who've influenced me. In no particular order:

• Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror. For his thoroughly relevant bite-sized lozenges of digestible content.
  
• Shamus Young of Twenty Sided. For the D&D and game programming geekery.
  
• James Devlin of Coding the Wheel. For all things of or pertaining to poker and programming/technology.
  
• Robert Hodgins of Flight 404. For his brilliant visualizations and work with Processing.
  
• Seth Godin of Seth Godin's Blog. For those clever, 20-second posts that make you go Hmm.

If you're reading this blog, then you should absolutely be reading all of the above! I'll update this list (and perhaps do a formal blogroll) as time allows.

Hello World

Hi there. My name is Dean Stuttgard and this is my first-ever blog post. I titled it "Hello World" because I am (among other things) a programmer, and as every programmer knows, a Hello World application is a simple demo intended to show you the bare minimum smallest possible program you can build using a particular language, toolset, or technology stack.

This then, is my Hello World blog post.

I plan to discuss a bunch of things on this blog including programming, music, gaming, poker, and general technology. I also plan to do a lot of ranting and raving and gibbering at the enraged leprechauns shimmying down my walls.

Enjoy.