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if you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive.
programming is rather thankless. you see your works become replaced by superior works in a year. unable to run at all in a few more.
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this kid at the grocery store was showing me his big stack of yu-gi-oh cards. however, my own stack of sliced muenster prevailed in the end.
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why is the world wasting so much time on gadgets? i would like a chair that can climb trees! think a jazzy for lumberjacks
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this girl at the pool is draggin such a stack of foam noodles it’s like she’s a little beaver going to dam up the diving board
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two ambulances are hangin out at the ampm, windows rolled down, throwing a mini-football back and forth.
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excerpt from the unconsoled: http://is.gd/1TLmZ it’s long, but the trick is: if you aren’t hooked by p. 150, then forget it.
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oh heyy all the art + code talks: http://vimeo.com/sfci (start with the luke dubois one, followed by the sebastian one, then golan…)
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my sister keeps her sandwich in a holder which, by all appearances, is itself a sandwich. would that everything had such a container.
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judith supine, always an expert of wild hands. http://is.gd/1ofAe the purple hand is a surprising new development.
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caller asks, “should i use hpricot or nokogiri?” if you’re NOT me: use nokogiri. and if you’re me: well cut it out, stop being me.
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what makes me such a lousy programmer is that i can excuse anything by saying this isn’t so bad— i myself am a much bigger hack than this.
okay potion is to a point where we can talk about it. a short pamphlet: http://hackety.org/potion/
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filling a wall with nature scenes: romanticized squid fights, foxes beneath an aurora, frogs enjoying an opulent constellation-ridden night.
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my lady, this poorly rendered page marks you as the whore of internet explorer. i mean that in a way that is both graceful and degrading.
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