February 2012
2 posts
“A Djokovic victory is almost always impressive but rarely inspirational, akin to...”
– The Limits of Control: Why Novak Djokovic is at his best when he’s at his worst
January 2012
14 posts
“Meh, advice-shmadvice. Who am I to give advice? What’s experience good for in...”
– 10 Questions with Facebook Research Engineer – Andrei Alexandrescu
“(One interesting side note: The cameras on drone aircraft in Afghanistan take...”
– Counting on a Rush to the Cloud - NYTimes.com (via new-aesthetic)
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S.
December 2011
4 posts
Unexpected
Missing cinema, good beer, hot food, different coffee, donuts, and accidental confessions. What started out as a perfectly normal day, quickly turned into one of the more unusual days I’ve ever lived.
“Plugins are powerful ways to break or enhance your user interface. Test them...”
– Talkerapp Plugin API documentation warning.
November 2011
12 posts
“Megyn Kelly on fire hoses: “It’s a sports beverage, essentially!”...”
– From a comment on a Gawker article about a Fox host saying pepper spray is “a food product, essentially”.
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“Our right hemisphere is all about this present moment. It’s all about...”
– Fantastic TED talk by Jill Bolte Taylor about what it feels like to have a stroke.
October 2011
11 posts
Receiving weather satellite images →
This is crazy, turns out a few weather satellites beam down the output of their scanning for anyone to tap in to.
Making way for a hyperspace bypass
Last night, I dreamt some friends and I were on an unidentified planet (could have been Earth) that was going to be abandoned. The reason was vague, although I seem to remember it was because aliens were either about to blow it up or invade. We were one of the last teams left around, checking the nearby towns to make sure everyone had been evacuated, and since our mission had ended we had to...
“I’m making good money, my obligatory expenses are less than half my...”
– Seen on a reddit thread discussing the Occupy Wall Street movement. The original post makes reference to the fact that most of the demonstrators aren’t young pot-smoking hippies, which is how the media usually portrays them as being, but rather regular middle class people.
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September 2011
9 posts
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“We’re now seeing a repeat of this scenario, but where the distribution industry...”
– Nobody Asked For A Refrigerator Fee – Pirate Bay founder Rick Falkvinge on how Sweden’s 19th-century icemen, made obsolete by the refrigeration technology, offer a timely analogy to what’s happening to the media industry in the age of peer-to-peer filesharing and the absurdity of the legislature...
Putting fires out
I left to Santander on Friday, at midday, with three other teammates. As soon as we landed, we got picked up at the airport, inhaled some lunch at another teammate’s house, and promptly left to go catch the bus the team rented to go to Nantes. (Gmaps says 778 km,8h 24 min). We left at around 3:30pm and arrived to the hotel at 2:00am. Woke up at 8am for some breakfast, played three...
“…the world is currently run by a generation whose upbringing has left them...”
– My speech to the IAAC | Ben Hammersley’s Dangerous Precedent (via new-aesthetic)