January 2011
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All The Guns
Turns-out the main argument for arming people to the teeth is the so-called “Second Amendment solution.” Personally, I don’t mind making sure that the gov’t isn’t the only one with guns. But why does this have to mean that every fuckwit gets to have a gun designed to shoot 20 people or more at close range? Etc? We should be able to reach a compromise on gun control.
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Windows Fetisher →
John Gruber feels that Microsoft’s propensity for propagating “Windows” to so many of its product names is hurting them:
“I, along with many others, have wondered why Microsoft named Windows Phone 7 “Windows”. It doesn’t look or act anything like Windows (the PC OS) or the old Windows Mobile. It feels like something brand new, that deserves a new name. I’m wondering now if...
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The Low Road →
So, here’s the thing. We could take the highroad and not talk about Sarah Palin at all. The problem is … she won’t let us.
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“The uniform for men is an expression of their alignment with authority. The...”
– Concerning church uniforms (aka “appropriate clothing for the traditional congregationalist”).
“Huffington Post. The blog equivalent of Jenny McCarthy.”
– Jason Kottke
“Money changes everything.”
– The Smiths
December 2010
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“The first rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat two frogs, eat the...”
– Brian Tracy, “Eat That Frog!”
It may seem a bit strange out of context but this arises from a Mark Twain quote which suggests that if you eat one live frog each morning then you’ll have put behind you the most difficult thing you’ll do all day.
“You’ve got to stop this war in Afghanistan.”
– Purported to be Richard Holbrooke’s last words before going under general anesthetics … never to return.
November 2010
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“Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.”
– H. H. Willams (found on page three of Philipp Janert’s Data Analysis with Open Source Tools) Definitely true in software engineering.
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“The first fundamental principle of programming I want you to learn is this:...”
– Higher Computing for Everyone, by Carl Herold
Start learning programming often enough and one becomes something of a “starting to learn programming” fetishist.
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October 2010
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Gotta say that I really hate that Cheney/O rly? image appearing at the top of my tumblr. Must delete or bury. Quickly.
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Which Book of Mormon character are you?
Matt just took the “Which Book of Mormon Character are you?” quiz and the result is “that dude who talked everyone into making target practice of the guy up on top of the wall.”
Anonymous accomplice: Well, everyone thought it was such a great idea at the time. Fun, you know? I mean, there wasn’t a good shot in the entire city so nobody was going to get hurt.
That...
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Blessed Eve, Mother of All Living
Without reason (and intellect and discriminating thought), all of human thought would be unintelligible to humans — indistinguishable from random noise. Yet some say that there are realms of human experience where reason is useless. To say that “reason is useless” is to say that there are some things for which the human intellect is useless. And yet it is only by the tools of...
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Merle gives a puck about an Oxford Comma →
Vampire Weekend uses mock distain for the whole discussion around the use of a serial comma, but Merle Haggard just might have a use for one — as might his ex-wives, Kris Kristofferson and Robert Duvall. Heh.
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“Anyone that nice should not be trusted.”
– overheard at lunch
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Unixy t-shirt idea #1
Don’t $ cd ~ me until I’m drunk. Very drunk indeed.
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Dark Night of the Soul (Danger Mouse &... →
“The more I try to hurt you the more it backfires.” Just sayin’ …
