December 2009
44 posts
“Developers seem to want to think about what *should* happen. Like “Oh,...”
– nine-times on Slashdot
“I found one of those hair tie things that somehow managed to squeeze into every...”
– best of craigslist: A letter to my dead girlfriend. (via inkless-pen)
“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one. ”
– Bill Gates (via lickystickypickyme) (via quote-book) (via inkless-pen)
“The message is clear: Don’t fuck with people flying in to Detroit. We have...”
– Darth_brooks on Slashdot
You can't handle the truth →
Apparently alcohol is more harmful (given a cross-section of metrics) than a lot of other, “worse” substances - so our country’s laws are backwards. What else is new.
“Fuck all the pop song puppy love bullshit. Your heart skipping a beat isn’t...”
– JCaesar, on love. (via abfa00)
During tedious debugging...
You have to keep yourself entertained.
int luggageCombo[] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
Trips home
are fixed points in time. (Should I start calling them “visits”? Weird.)
What I mean by that is, every time I wake up and find myself at home, I can consistently, reliably quantify the most recent chunk of time I spent at school in Boston. It is always a fixed amount because a stable pattern has emerged: go home Christmas, go home spring break, go home summer.
That realization, of...
I got off a plane
and went to In-N-Out. My life is complete.
“It’s men who are dumb enough to tolerate the aspy-programmer types, the...”
– fahrvergnugen on Slashdot
You’re not frail, just delicately strong
Hoo-rah
The sci-fi soundscape composition that I posted last week has been selected for inclusion on the Music Tech website in the student work jukebox. I don’t know when they’ll actually post its, so here is the description I sent them along with it:
About me: I am a dual Music Technology and Computer Science major at NU, currently in my second year. My ultimate goal is to work on the...
Question
Resolved: Given that there is no amount of money you can spend on a Macbook air to make it fast, you might as well let it do the one thing it actually is good at and let it be pretty. To that end, it is better to spend the money to get a cheaper Macbook air painted by colorwarepc.com than it is to get a more expensive (but only marginally faster) stock unit from Apple. Agree? Disagree?
“The shuttle Enterprise was explicitly named with the USS Enteprise as a...”
Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo →
“SpaceShipTwo will be unveiled after darkness has fallen over the Mojave Desert to the sound of a space-themed anthem from Britain’s biggest DJs, Above & Beyond. Fittingly titled “Buzz” the track will sample Buzz Aldrin’s original moon landing dialogue. Following the naming by Governors Richardson and Schwarzenegger, the DJs will also perform an exclusive set at the celebration cocktail...
San Francisco Symphony's Mahler 8 recording... →
I am very excited for one of my high school teachers. Not only was she the driving force behind my illustrious male a cappella group, but in her free time she also sang in the SF women’s chorus. This chorus was used on the SF Symphony’s most recent Mahler recording, which has now been nominated for a few Grammy awards. So congratulations, Ms. Nace!
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Finally, the instruction in my Music and...