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Protovillainy
Yes. And now they suspend me in this spring-mounted ceiling apparatus, exactly as I predicted. Everything is going according to plan. Excellent.
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The Great Escape
A few months ago I made a joke about my friend’s daughter, whose previous role-modelling efforts can be seen here. But, hahahahaha, it looks like my concerns were totally unfounded! Claire didn’t need...
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Ready To Go
Maya packed her bag, put her boots on and told me she was ready to leave home this morning. Well, that happened a little sooner that I expected. I suppose I’m going to have to get used to this...
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Toolchain
I was idly looking over the shooting script for Men In Black the other day. Different from the movie, in a lot of little ways that add up; as filmed it came out a fun, largely harmless sci-fi movie of...
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Closing Up Shop
I sent this mail today, to the Mozilla enterprise mailing lists: Hi, everyone. Mike Hoye here from Bespoke I/O. As I mentioned previously, I’m closing down BeSDS, the enterprise customization tool and...
View ArticleHypothetical Laptop notes
Let’s say you wanted to design a laptop, preinstalled with Linux and for a linux-user audience. This is mostly my own notes about what I’d like, but I wouldn’t mind some feedback. Pixel Qi screen 14″...
View ArticleDestroy Your Legends
The Verge is running a question for their community: “You’ve Just Been Given Control of a Great Video Game Franchise!” What do you remake, and why? I wrote this: Now, I’m an inveterate Legend Of Zelda...
View ArticleTerrible idea, or best idea?
Today in IRC-as-performance-art news, a friend just had the idea of turning Amazon’s recommendation algorithm into some sort of Reality-TV / Takeshi’s Castle crossover thing. 12:02 <mhoye> My...
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Flip All The Pronouns
Maya and I have been playing through Windwaker together; she likes sailing, scary birds and remembering to be brave, rescuing her little brother and finding out what’s happening to Medli and her...
View ArticleFifteen Minutes Of Forever
Well, that certainly took off, didn’t it? I’ve had some pretty mixed feelings this week; putting a ton of time and effort into a startup that doesn’t take off and then seeing a tiny little side project...
View ArticleSolidarity For A Few Minutes If Everyone’s OK With That Maybe I Guess
Just to set the mood, here’s a bit Matt Taibbi wrote about the ability of the American left get themselves organized, specifically with respect to the anti-war protests in 2007: “The post-sixties dogma...
View ArticleI Believe These Two Have Never Been Seen In The Same Room
And thus it came to pass that in the last moments of the end times, as the worshippers of the Ancient Ones gazed on His final ascension from the depths, that their minds were broken and spirits...
View ArticleCoffee Infused Bourbon
I’ve had this in the queue for a while, not sure why it didn’t get put up. Well, here it is. Get a bottle of a good bourbon. I’m partial to Woodford Reserve, myself, but there’s clearly room for...
View ArticleReading Glasses
I’ll level with you: I’m not very good at reading code. I had an interview the other day that featured the dreaded read-this-code segment that’s inevitable in modernity, and reading somebody else’s...
View ArticleGenuflecting
Guys guys great news: it turns out that panicky superstitious people who deliberately misinterpret their shallow understanding of an incredibly narrow slice of a foreign culture they’re otherwise...
View ArticleBesides The Photo And The Memory
After explaining the death of a neighbor’s cat to Maya, every conversation we have can now get incredibly heavy without the least bit of advance warning. “Dad, I want eggs for breakfast.” “Ok, Maya,...
View ArticleMemetic Diversity
On my subway ride home last night two elderly Chinese ladies were sitting across from me having an animated conversation I couldn’t understand a word of, when one of them suddenly ended a sentence with...
View ArticleBaking Bacon
You need a Silpat nonstick cooking mat, a baking tray, an oven and tongs. Turn the oven up to 400, but you don’t need to let it finish preheating; this starts from cold. Silpat goes on the tray, bacon...
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Majora’s Mask
I’ve been thinking a lot about Majora’s Mask recently, and as usual the best way for me to get something out of my head is to blog about it. I suspect this is going to turn into one of those awkward,...
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That’s Too Much Machine For You
Man, how awful is it to see people broken by the realization that they are no longer young. Why are you being cantankerous, newly-old person? It’s totally OK not to be 17 or 23, things are still...
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