Stolen from the header at AngryCoder.org:
“nothing says maintainability like 10 nested ternary operators”
I laughed.
5 December, 2009
Random Quote
29 January, 2009
Quotes: From ‘The Old New Thing’
From a comment at ‘The Old New Thing,’ a blog by Microsoft’s Raymond Chen.
That reminds me of my favorite science joke:
“Researchers in Fairbanks Alaska announced last week that they have discovered a superconductor which will operate at room temperature.” (Link)
14 January, 2009
MIT and College
From this Slashdot post
Anonymous Coward:
This reminds me of a joke where how students are treated in high school is compared with their treatment in college. We keep telling students to “behave” in elementary school, where “behaving” usually means keeping quiet, not causing trouble, not questioning the teacher. Then we wonder why people turn apathetic in college…
12 January, 2009
Dwarf Fortress: Multi-threaded Pathfinding
20 June, 2008
I am aware of all internet traditions!
Via Balloon Juice:
Via some other crazy-ass blog:
I am aware of all internet traditions and also of literary conventions in which placing something in quotes or in a blockquote means that your are quoting that person.
But here you are not.
I want to…like…talk like this all the time. And now, it is one of the newest Internet memes!
And I’m only like 3 days behind on the meme this time! I was at least several months late just for Rickrolling. Had to explain it to a friend when it showed up on xkcd. Home of moving hyphenations one word to the right (ex: sweet-ass car == sweet ass-car) and ball pits, in the home!
6 May, 2008
Quotes of Some Days
So. Bit of a backlog on my quotations of note.
Do you think I’ll be fixing that now? You betcha!
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. – Friedrich von Schiller
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.- Evelyn Waugh
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren’t distracted by the total lack of content in your writing. – Randy K. Milholland (Something Positive and other Webcomics)
Randy Milholland has an awful lot of content spread across his several webcomics. He may say something to the contrary, though. Either way, his typos can be amusing; probably a source of waaay too many rapid e-mails upon post for his account, though.
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Hmm…interesting quote from Napoleon there. Wonder how often he had to use it?
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. – Quentin Crisp
This? Yeah, I can see this.
Alrighty. I’m caught up for another few days.
30 April, 2008
Quotes of the Day
I use Google Personalized Homepage (iGoogle). On it I have a Quotes of the Day widget.
Some of these quotes? I quite like them. Like that one from Mitch Hedburg: (paraphrased)
“You’ll never see an ‘Out of Order’ sign on an escalator, just ‘Escalator Temporarily Stairs, Sorry for the Inconvenience’”
Well, with that over, the real point of the post:
I’m going to start posting quotes from my iGoogle widget occasionally. Yay.
And so, we start off with today’s:
Life… is like a grapefruit. It’s orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
- Douglas Adams
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
- Arnold Toynbee