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Stupid, stupid day
I'm not a fan of April Fools' Day. Perhaps it's because, hello, I spend all year making stuff up, and once a year a bunch of amateurs are going to try it? Please. But what really fails to impress me on April Fools' Day is...a bad puzzle.
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Odd dreams, we get odd dreams
Last night's odd dream involved the usual disconnected plotlines, including what I'm pretty sure was Otherworld, and also some sort of corpse-reanimating ritual. I distinctly recall someone being reanimated and having to shove his jaw back into place before being able to say "Do you know what you have done ( Read more... ) -
What a weird day
I spent today at work making terrible decisions about how to implement (and test and debug) code. Also about how long to stay at work, since I left at 10:15. (Also about when to get to work, since I arrived at 2:15 ( Read more... ) -
Kick-your-self-starting
MIT's Technology Review cites crowdfunding as a major emerging technology. It mostly discusses Kickstarter, but also mentions a number of similar websites.
It makes me want to start my own crowdfunding business. I just have no idea how I'd go about finding investors.
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Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
There are two signs that I pass periodically which count among the simple joys in my life. One belongs to Sav-Mor Liquors, whose sign currently reads BEER CAN'T HELP WITH TAXES / YOU'LL NEED SOMETHING STRONGER. (Past signs include the December classic HOLIDAYS MEAN FAMILY / WE SELL LIQUOR, the St. Patrick's Day IF YOU SEE LEPRECHAUNS / STOP ( Read more... ) -
Kerning (and Keming)
If you don't know what kerning is, you should. If you don't know what keming is, and it's not obvious, you probably should.
And thus, I give to you an insanely geeky Google Easter egg. And an even geekier one.
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Play the Play
As is the case every year, I totally forget about the Interactive Fiction competition until it's long since over and judged. (You'd think that having friends who submit things to it would help me remember. Nope ( Read more... ) -
Kickstarting
I've never really felt compelled to poke around on Kickstarter before-well, OK, being unemployed was a notable part of that, and now I feel like I have actual money to actually spend on actual things. Or, I suppose, in the case of Kickstarter, potential things. At any rate, I've thrown in my two cents for Matchbox Girls by Chrysoula Tzavelas. ( Read more... ) -
Lo those many years ago
At work, listening to music while coding, and the Indigo Girls's "Prince of Darkness" came up on iTunes (apparently, per the "last played" attribute, for the first time in two and a half years). To my surprise, my first and primary association with the song is still the fact that the Carleton Knightingales sang it, not that I would have seen them ( Read more... )