I created a Facebook account in 2012 but didn’t really post much until 2014. In 2018 I deleted my account (for secret reasons). It was a relief to let it go, but also a little sad. I quickly lost tabs of friends and extended family. Of course we still talk now and again, but I am much less aware of what’s going on in their day to day lives. Nevertheless I’m glad I left.
In an act of unbridled vanity, I have archived all the old posts here.
When I was a kid I always thought Big Bird was a girl. And then I out grew Sesame Street. Much later, when reading Sesame Street books to my kids, I was surprised to find out she was supposed to be a boy. It still surprises me a little when I’m not thinking about Big Bird and then someone calls her “he”.
Anybody else?
For some reason this article neglects to mention that her middle name is “OK Google”.
I think the NCAA should use some of that money to reimburse me for all this traffic.
Went out to get the mail tonight and inadvertently put my hand and arm through spiderwebs in the dark. That was three hours ago and I still feel like there’s something crawling on me.
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You know how it feels so cozy to walk into your own home after being away for a few days? I wonder if my phone feels that way when it reconnects to my home wifi.
My greatest regret is that we’ll never know for absolute certain that this is true.
Someone built a robot that prints out trump tweets, burns them, then tweets a video of it back to trump. This is quality engineering work.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”
Also, interestingly enough, the definition of dice.
Sophie is watching the fourth Harry Potter movie in the other room while I work and it dawns on me 75% of the dialog is just Harry screaming and groaning.
Bothans.
Is there an IntelliJ extension that posts this as my status whenever my code starts compiling?
“I’m going to surround myself only with the best and most serious people. … We want top of the line professionals.”
[ed: This article is now behind a paywall so I’ve updated the link to point to archive.org.]
So can we like start working on improvements to Obamacare now to shore up the markets? Like maybe a public option, and medicaid expansion in more red states? Or are we still pretending it’s impossible to work on problems cooperatively and effectively?
The Phone app on my iPhone should let me point the camera at a printed phone number to dial it.
[ed: Annd… it does now.]
The secret to good software design is to slowly, carefully, meticulously abstract complexity away at every level until in the end no part of the program does anything at all.
Well this is an emotional rollercoaster.
While we watch the AHCA fail to pass, the Muslim ban get blocked, and the soon-to-be budget fight, I would like to share with you this English language fun fact:
The word “check” meaning “to arrest the progress of something” comes to English from the game of chess (from Arabic no less), not the other way around. Chess predates the English language by perhaps 500 years.
So it turns out these color blocks are a new facebook thing. I thought they were just oddly specific poorly punctuated memes.
I was going to say this myself but here it is explained more fully. Laptop bans a good idea backed by real intelligence? Who knows? Maybe. Or maybe the administration is lying again. A president who lies routinely is a problematic thing.
I bet if Perry Mason were here, he’d just yell “HOW DO YOU PLEAD” in Russian at trump and trump would yell back “НЕ ВИНОВЕН” and then turn bright red and bluster and it would all be over.
We’ve had the technology to turn seat cushions into floatation devices for years so turning a microwave into a camera doesn’t seem that far-fetched.
The thing about flourless chocolate cake is it is basically a chocolate omelette which doesn’t sound nearly as good as it tastes.
I’ve never wanted a conspiracy to be true more than this one. Please, Obama, run a shadow government. Please.
For some reason my mail app doesn’t seem to let me make a rule for “move all incoming mail to archived.” 😕 Bummer.
This is the best writeup so far of the crazy cool pictures of Saturn’s moon Pan.
I wrote this last year about some of the women who made a huge impact on my industry.
Women of the Computation Revolution
[ed: As ListApp is now defunct, this link has been updated to point to my local archive instead.]
