July 29, 2006
The Upside-Down-Ternet
Via Joel on Software, one good reason not to steal your neighbor's wifi.
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July 26, 2006
I Don't Know, but I Been Told ...
... Dr. Myers ain't got no soul.
Dorky Mr. Rodgers Type: Well, the sun is shining, it's a beautiful day outside. And God had nothing to do with it, beacuse God doesn't exist.Kids: Yaaayyyy!!!!
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July 12, 2006
Long Distance DATE$ing
The Daily WTF is one the favorite websites among the software engineers where I work. I thought about posting it a while ago, but I figured no one would get the humor. "What's funny about referential integrity," you might ask, and it would be a good question.
Today's wtf, however, is wonderful. Basically, a programmer does something stupid (uses a system resource to save a value) which works fine for a while (as all great progamming blunders do), and then breaks catastropically when the code is shipped to Europe. Affected users have their system dates set to confusing values and after the 13th of the month printing only works on every second attempt.
What I like best about this is that it gives non-programmers a sense for how completely absurd behavior arises. I think programmers conceive of software and bugs differently from normal people. This is sort of a window into our mindset, in fairly understandable language.
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May 27, 2006
The Only Downside is Parting with Chimay
A few months ago, my sister joined both me and Adrianne as a proud owner of a Crumpler Bag. The McBain's Lovechild I bought from them online is really well made, and pretty swell looking. The only downside is that you pay for what you get; at $40, my laptop bag was one of their cheapest.
So to prove how incredibly cool they are, they're running a promotion starting a week from today that anyone should be able to get down with: Beer for Bags. You show up with some combination of beer, exchange it for a bag, and then hang around and drink with the staff. Sounds like June is the time to be working the Crumpler store in Manhattan. Now I just need to find someone who will deliver my 12 pack of Leffe and bottle of Chimay while I'm in Chicago to secure me a Complete Seed.
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May 5, 2006
Your Whole Family is Made Out of Meat
I'm assuming most people have read this great little Terry Bisson, but even if you haven't, you should check out the awesome theatrical rendition of They're Made Out of Meat. As P.Z. Myers (who pointed me to the movie) points out, it's somewhat contrary to the spirit of the script to have the main characters cast in meat. But this would only be a serious failing if the actors weren't so excellently suited to their lines. Watch it and decide for yourself.
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March 8, 2006
If Only it were True (The bit about hair color, that is...)
I never thought I'd see the day, but something has replaced "QED, bitches" as my favorite way to end any argument, ever:
I am a naturally blond man, and I have very large sex organs. I can’t help but think that the rest of you are overthinking this question.
"Todd, we can't decide whether to use a hashing function, or just to do a linear search each time we need access something. The data set is right on the line. See, this one website says --"
"Hold it right there. I am a naturally blond man, and ...."
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February 27, 2006
In Sports, We Call That Veteran Know-How
GrrlScienist reads "Kotex Tips for Life" on the box of a hygiene product, and has Advice for Corporate Giants
Obviously, the person behind this little scheme was someone who has never possessed a functioning pair of ovaries. Go ahead and tell a menstruating woman to her face that drinking six to eight glasses of water will help keep her feeling fresh. Especially when she is experiencing bloating from water weight gain. Just see what happens and report back.[...]
Look, women don't need or want "Tips for Life" on feminine hygiene products. Younger girls are already hearing "helpful" crap like that from their elderly relatives. Veteran females have already concocted their own recipes for survival, most containing alcohol.
I have nothing to add, so I will just pass that along without comment. However, in the spirit of biting off heads, here's an awesome video.
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February 18, 2006
These are a Few of My Favorite Things
I just want to say how disappointed I am that no one got me any chocolate brains for Valentine's Day. "These are also a good Valentine's gift for zombies," indeed. The problem is obviously that I have done too good a job of fooling you all.
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Let's Pretend, For a Minute, Comic Books aren't Lame
This shit is funny.
More specifically, "this shit" is a the life story of "Luke Cage," a black comic book hero, told in honor of Black History Month. I don't really know from comics, but the post includes a panel in which a man punches a villain and says "This is getting monotonous, BOYEES." This is explained as follows:
For the record, the story that panel is from involves the Punisher getting cut up by Jigsaw and having new skin grafted to his face by a former med student turned heroin-addict prostitute, which has the result of turning him black for three issues until a story called, and I'm totally serious here, "Fade to White." That, friends, is deserving of its own post.Seriously? Maybe I need to start reading more comics, because that sounds incredible.
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February 10, 2006
Bringin' it Back
Since the posters here at tbnd are finally getting back into the groove, what with the recent reviews, I thought it time to steal a page from the good old book of Bard blogging and declare another caption contest.
Adam's original rules:
Entries will be judged on the basis of "winningness" -- the winner whose winning entry wins most winningly wins. There is no second place -- however, an honorable mention will be awarded for "Good Sportsmanship." The final decision will be made by whoever feels like it. In the event that no one feels like it, there will be no winner, and everyone will be disappointed.In this contest, winningness will still be the criterion for winning, but the tbnd posters (or some subset thereof) will determine which is the winningest entry. Caption away!
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August 1, 2005
Is This Beyond Parody?
More to the point, is it wrong to be turned on by the idea of a bio mechanically engineered Sean Hannity?
Do yourself a favor, and read this synopsis and preview of a comicbook mini-series starring the superpundit.
In 2004, Muslim terrorists stopped viewing the weakened American government as a threat; instead they set their sites on their true enemies, vocal American conservatives. On one dark day, in 2006, many conservative voices went forever silent at the hands of terrorist assassins. Those which survived joined forces and formed a powerful covert conservative organization called “The Freedom of Information League”, aka F.O.I.L.(Via CT.)The F.O.I.L. Organization is forced underground by the “Coulter Laws” of 2007; these hate speech legislations have made right-wing talk shows, and conservative-slanted media, illegal. Our weakened government has willingly handed the reigns of our once great country to the corrupt United Nations.
The New York City faction of F.O.I.L. is lead by Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North, each uniquely endowed with special abilities devised by a bio mechanical engineer affectionately nicknamed “Oscar”. F.O.I.L. is soon to be joined by a young man named Reagan McGee.
Reagan was born on September 11th, 2001. He is the son of a NYC firefighter whose life was spared by attending his son’s birth. Reagan has grown to manhood in an ultra-liberal educational system: being told, not asked, what to think. With personal determination, which alienates him from his contemporaries, he has chosen the path less traveled…the path to the Right.
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June 25, 2005
I'm Billicio Del Joelio. I play pianolo.
I know several of my cobloggers are big fans of The State. For them, I bring a Michael Ian Black sighting: a very funny McSweeney's piece called What I Would Be Thinking About If I Were Billy Joel Driving Toward a Holiday Party Where I Knew There Was Going to Be a Piano.
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