January 2012
14 posts
Her: its a great time to be a programmer
Him: unless you live in Iran
Me: too soon man, too soon
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The Phone Stack →
It works like this: as you arrive, each person places their phone facedown in the center of the table. As the meal goes on, you’ll hear various texts and emails arriving… and you’ll do absolutely nothing. You’ll face temptation—maybe even a few involuntary reaches toward the middle of the table—but you’ll be bound by the single, all-important rule of the phone stack.
Whoever picks up their phone...
WatchSo I made a mix-tape of what Last.FM tells me is antifolk. I’m not convinced these tracks all strictly adhere to that genre, but it’s a collection of music I enjoy.
Original is here if you have problems with HTML5.
New year resolutions never work out. Instead I’m just leaving some rules I’ve been trying to live by recently and which I want to concentrate on over the next 12 months.
Doing things because we ‘should’ does not make us good people.
Passion is everything. If an opportunity comes up which makes us say ‘hell yeah’ then we take it, otherwise we don’t...
December 2011
20 posts
"So are you two... together?" - Article about... →
A great article on the lack of words to describe non-Hallmark relationships.
On Avoiding Process →
“If a tool is forcing process on you, or even encourages you to follow some process, ditch the tool and find another. If you leave enough handguns hanging around, eventually someone’s going to get shot.”
“Real friends are suppose to have the same enemies, too many people got this...”
– Frank Ocean (via thisisenglandgoodnight)
Hug O'War
I will not play at tug o’ war. I’d rather play at hug o’ war, Where everyone hugs Instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles And rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, And everyone grins, And everyone cuddles, And everyone wins.
Sheldon Allan Silverstein
daniel sinker: I'm starting to think Lego is evil →
sinker:
Well, maybe not evil, but “highly problematic.”
First, let’s remove what we all *think* Lego is (i.e. our own nostalgic memories, our aspirational beliefs, or $250 robot sets), and instead concentrate on what Lego today is, for the most part: It’s movie-tie-in model sets marketed pretty much…
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Never have enough time for anything? Keep doing things you “should” be doing rather than things you want to be doing? You’re doing it wrong. You’d have plenty of time for doing the things you want to do if you stopped doing the things you “should” be doing. It comes down to one simple rule:
If you don’t immediately say “hell yes” to...
November 2011
9 posts
October 2011
9 posts
“40 hours is a compromise week in which I don’t actually get a lot of work done,...”
– Embedded in Academia : 40 Hour Work Weeks Suck (via wpbasti)
