Smooooth jazzzz
| Orion: | for those of you not here in the lobby with us: |
| Orion: | everybody loves the sunshine |
| Orion: | folks get down in the sunshine |
| Orion: | the sunshine |
| Orion: | GOTO 10 |
xkcd nails it once again (sent by Evelyn)
I found my diploma
lying in a brown, crusty snowdrift outside my building on the way to the airport. Poetic, UPS.
Best birthday present EVER!
My next project is a script that automatically searches Snopes for the content of any email which …
- was sent to me by a blood relative or
- has been forwarded more than twice
Perhaps a conditional autoresponder is in order as well.
Tumblr Tag Clouds: Redux »
This is a tag cloud generator for Tumblr. It uses the Tumblr API’s JSON output and jQuery to generate a tag cloud each time your site is accessed.
Demo of top 30 tags by frequency:
Happy Thanksgiving! May you eat something as drenched in butter as this, and be grateful.
I’m still grinning
And no one on the el wonders why. They are too.
“Hey, you know what though? I bet Obama would be doing even better if more people knew that his dad had TWO IRON LEGS. Half white, half black, one quarter robot, all my next president.”
Let’s see if we can’t get that up on the Internet. | MetaFilter
In addition to his cyborg heritage, you should also vote for him because I have a ticket to his acceptance speech. Two rock solid reasons right there.
| Jeremy: | So, the other day, I realized that I was just like a fictional character, to the extreme degree that I felt as if I would be probabilistically less likely to think of anything creative and original because the creator of the fictional character had likely already thought of anything I might say. |
| Jeremy: | But that's not awesome. |
| Jeremy: | That's crushingly depressing. |
| Jeremy: | What is awesome, then, is when you turn to your girlfriend and say, "This fictional character is eerily like me, and it troubles me that I'm demonstrably not unique. I propose that I create a brand new personality, one that no one has thought of before, where I'll get to indulge in the qualities I think are desirable, free from OH MY GOD THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT T-REX WOULD SAY WHEN CONFRONTED WITH THIS SITUATION." |
| Me: | You reflect exactly one level too deeply. You should take my example and hit that sweet spot – stop thinking about it juuuuust in time. It's a happy life. |
| Jeremy: | That's exactly what Enid from Ghost World would say. |
Don't live like me
| Me: | Damnit, I can't figure out a good way to do this in Python. |
| Ned: | Well, you could … no. |
| Me: | What were you going to say? |
| Ned: | It's nothing. I was just going to say, in C++ you could … no. No, don't live like me. |
New favorite toy
