April 2008
151 posts
Tons of Snow Test a Place Where Cold Is No... →
I mean, what else is going on in Canada?
March 2008
78 posts
Rick roll’ed, on my cell, in the middle of class. That is awesome.
but what is the deal with you * fanatics? - the... →
Explanation: A number of years ago Jason Kottke wrote a blog post complaining about his Mac’s performance. Due to its whiny tone, it was soon spoofed all over popular tech forums as a troll starting a flame war on a given popular topic. As with all internet culture, the troll text itself became a meme which then got repeated with more esoteric topics for the benefit of the handful of other...
If the Ayatollah can’t have it, nobody can!
WatchViddler.com - C4[1] Sasser: Coda Confidential - Uploaded by rentzsch.
Around 21:55 - “Every time we started to implement a feature, we asked ourselves, is this currently being done the best way that we know it can be done.”
Really entertaining and interesting presentation by this guy from Panic, the quintessential indie Mac developers. Jargon I’ve never heard pronounced...
an achievement "perhaps unparalleled in chess... →
"who like many (Indians, Afghans, Indonesians,... →
This may be my new favourite journalistic flourish.
Dear cbc newsworld: it is a little creepy how ALL your morning ads target senior citizens. I guess I’m just old that way?
I think my father is morally opposed to handles. He hasn’t put knobs in any piece of furniture he’s made in the last year. It is annoying.
“There are a lot of good ideas that can’t be put into practice […]...”
– France mulls partial Olympic boycott | FP Passport
*ahem. A partial ban sounds kind of ridiculous to me. I doubt it would even save face.
“I feel like I’m Forrest Gump—I’m mildly retarded, and people are,...”
– New Yorker, March 24, 2008, pg 61 (not yet online).
Even though it’s an article on a hot and upcoming New York chef, that’s still a perfect description of insecurity.
“Even the knowledge that I am, most likely, the only person in the history of the...”
– CinnamonPirate.com : Prepare yourself, for tonight we board IN HELL!
“The solution to every problem in C is to use pointers.”
– Functional programming in C — Richard Crowley’s blog, which also presents a novel way to handle lots of “if foo, execute bar”.
Personally, I much prefer “Offenders will be persecuted”.
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I’ll never understand why a 24/7 grocery store would shut down on holidays. It is totally against their raison d’etre.
Eh. The chinese are going to have to massacre a number of people before anyone’s gonna boycott the olympic games.
“December 21. Much of afternoon spent by Stanley planning his Academy Award...”
– The Kubrick Site: Clarke’s 2001 Diary (excerpts)
Oh man, Arthur C. Clarke was so cool.
Dear Stephane Dion: I too am ESL, but I’m not the leader of a federal party. Just fix your english already. If I managed so can you.
Scrutineering the by-election at the projects makes me feel real glad about being middle class & white.
I love 5hr sleep days. Yay for 8am graph theory.
I would like to coin a term, if no one else has claimed this yet. hiffy’s lemma: Unicode is confusing.
Blueberry cheesecake rocks the free world.
This was working w/this same test case an hour ago. How can something segfault if nothing changes? C always makes me doubt my sanity.