January 2010
9 posts
Writing Like A Programmer
I fancy myself a writer. Not, mind you, a good one. Just a passable one.
I am, however, definitively a programmer. This means that I like things like version control, scriptable or programmable tools, and open, easily interchangeable formats.
Currently, when I write things I write them in RTF or in ASCII with Markdown. I really like Markdown. I used to like RTF, until I realized that it has no...
Today's Thought
Those of us who refrained from referring to the administration you put into power Nazis would appreciate it if you, in turn, could avoid invoking 1984 at every action of the administration we put into power.
Thank you.
Work has the oddest conversations...
mk: no, randy
mk: zombies dont crave pizza
mk: and if they did [their] internal organs no longer work
Meticulous or Obsessed?
DZ commented on my previous post regarding an unfortunate use of an MLK quote.
There’s been a relatively unfortunate trend recently of idolizing the ridiculously obsessed. Obsessives, in some circles, equate automatically to quality and workmanship.
The problem here, I think, is that obsession becomes an easy stand in for meticulousness. It’s an understandable mistake to make,...
There’s a great little blog called Minimal Mac that has a wealth of nifty little tricks for computing happiness.
I’m not mentioning it because of one of these tricks. I’m mentioning it because just now it posted the following quote:
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
That’s Martin Luther King, Jr.
Really? I mean, really?
I...
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...”
– From Marco, who got it from mudd up,peterwknox, who got it from The Economist.
This finally explains to me why the Brown novels are so bloody popular, without relying on a “people are idiots” excuse.
“if you switched to the AM dial it was nothing but ghostly mystery talk …...”
– Ariana Osborne
The Things He Carried →
I suppose I’ve seen too many movies, but, really? Social networks? Behavior detection? The TSA budget is almost $7 billion. That money would be better spent on the penetration of al-Qaeda social networks.
A great piece on the TSA and airport security by Jeffrey Goldberg, at the Atlantic.