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It’s Not Freaking France
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Say No To Crack In NYC
Hey, buddy, could you hold this thing for a minute? I’ve got some snow in my crack… -
Lunchtime TT
* Somebody already executed a hack I was thinking about.
* A snippet of conversation overheard in the streets of New York today:
Woman 1 – … Gin and something.
Woman 2 – Gin and Tonic?! For breakfast??!! -
You Still Need Proof That Aliens Are Amongst Us?
American Standard’s “America’s Ugliest Bathroom� contest winner looks like it escaped from my favorite online comic.
I actually like some of the couches in the “World Wide Ugly Couch Contest”.
I’d be very surprised if this thing could not travel in time:
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Huh…
I never thought about it, but “goodbye” (which I often misspell) is “a contraction of God be with ye “.
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Starmagic
There used to be a little novelty store near NYU called Starmagic. I think I bought a deck of Tarot cards there, and some slinkies over the years. Then it disappeared leaving only an empty shell of a room with weird conduit pipes hanging from the ceiling. Seeing it empty at night made me realize how tiny that store was and how crammed with silly-space-age-glow-in-the-dark-made-in-China-tchockes it was. Goodbye, Starmagic. -
The Shutton Bop
If you get the title of the post award yourself 50 deadprogrammer points. -
What Up?
Urban Dictionary is an awesome slang recourse. Thanks,, you non-blogging bastard. Before I used to go to Everything2 for all slang related research. But Urban Dictionary is so much better. For instance there I learned that usage of “word” as affirmation probably originates from “the word of God.”
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Monitor 451 or Ixnay on the X-ray
What I always thought to be just dirt on my screen or glasses, turned out to be a burned in picture of the login screen. Modern monitors are supposed to turn themselves off after a period of time, didn’t they? I thought that the login screen in NT used to jump around like a screensaver? Apparently not so.
A friend from the Fair and Balanced Network told me over lunch that the reason network logos are usually 3-d and rotating is because people used to get rather nasty burn-in on their TVs with static logos.
This got me thinking — what kind of statistics are out there about radiation exposure in programmers? I spend about 8 hours a day in front of an electron gun directed at my face and chest. And I’ve been having salivary gland troubles for a while. People worry about stupid cell phone microwaves. Monitors shoot X-rays. Now that is scary.
I am thinking now of buying a couple of flat panels for home and work. As expensive as it can be, it’s probably a good idea.
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Jonathan Livingston Cellphone
This morning I heard a series of weird rhythmic squeaks on the elevated platform of the Q line subway.What kind of moron would pick such a nasty sound for a cellphone ring, I thought. Turned out it was a giant dirty seagull on the roof of a neighboring building. Brooklyn garbage-fed seagulls are amazing creatures.