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Abuse of code reformatting
Subject: Lovecraftian horrors: reformatting code
Importance: High
Please don’t reformat code at your whim in some of the larger files. in being the file that has caused me to lose SAN points today. It makes it so so so so so so much harder to figure out what has changed ( Read more... ) -
Spite Driven programming
Inspired by JWZ's Hatefuck hacking article, I wrote this blurb up.
I've generated a lot of software out of spite in the last year or two ( Read more... ) -
Well, that's just odd.
People will flag anything on CL for removal, won't they?
Post a little tongue-in-cheek ad for something and people get their knickers in a twist.
Title: (free stuff) Free starter Virgin Mary ( Read more... ) -
Geek Angst
If Ubuntu is so insanely great, why do I always end up wanting to develop a time machine to go back in time and kill all the project leads grandparents in grisly fashions ( Read more... ) -
Fancy a witchetty grub?
Ah, Casu Marzu, one of my favorite horrifying foods to share (knowledge of) with other people. I heard about it a few years ago and have always taken it as another proof that people will eat anything that doesn't kill them (immediately). [1] Also, this coincidentally is one of the foods I never intend to try, even if I did happen to have goggles ( Read more... ) -
They're always oppressing me
The bike shop called to tell me they managed to un-pretzel my frame. I actually had help breaking it for a change. I was walking past Lee behind him in the parking lot and he started walking backwards and tripped over my bike. He bent up my wheel badly. Enough so that I had to bang it against the curb to straighten it enough to ride ( Read more... ) -
The Phillys? Are they a baseball team or something?
So I flew back East to Philadelphia for a super short trip to visit my older Brother [1]. It was his birthday and we spent the time wandering around on bicycles, shopping, picking up presents for him, provisions for a party Friday and generally hanging around.
Highlights:
- Sam's Morning Glory - I'm pretty sure I had an extended foodgasm from ( Read more... )
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Hot Bibliophile action
A blog dedicated to nothing but books. TheBlogOnTheBookshelf doesn't get many comments, but it is updated fairly frequently.
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Contradications
I don't remember who said it, it might have been from some form of pop culture, it might have been a character in a book. But it was a short monologue about what weakens a man. Paraphrasing as best as I can remember it ( Read more... )
