The kid at 0:40.
Also, the re-dub.
Caturday
(Source: youtube.com)
Fun Afrikaans idiom: ‘Hy lê balles bak.” - “He lies balls baking.”
True fact.
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One thing that [HTC’s ‘Sense’ re-skin of Ice-Cream Sandwich] apparently won’t have is an onscreen area for virtual buttons like the Galaxy Nexus, meaning that HTC devices on Android 4.0 will likely maintain the inputs on their hardware — despite Google’s recent directives.
Oh for fuck’s sake. MORE fragmentation? And now on a hardware AND software level?
Aaaaargh.
Things successfully avoided during a tablet-software design meeting (re: ‘the 10-inch experience’)
☑ Your mom jokes
☑ Gestures
☑ Comparisons with another tablet’s ‘7-inch experience’
☑ Euphemisms
☐ Giggling
#SOTU
[THE SCENE OPENS ON THE MOUTH OF AN ALLEY FACING OUT TOWARD THE STREET. IT’S DIRTY AND A DUMPSTER SITS ON ITS EDGE. OUR HERO RUNS BY THE ALLEY’S ENTRANCE, BREATHING HEAVILY AND PERSPIRING. HE CATCHES SIGHT OF THE ALLEYWAY IN PASSING, STOPS HIMSELF SUDDENLY, BACKTRACKS AND DUCKS DOWN IT. HE DIVES JUST BEHIND THE DUMPSTER AND HOLDS HIS BREATH. A SECOND LATER A MOB OF PEOPLE STREAM BY, FURIOUSLY SHOUTING OUT THEIR OPINIONS ABOUT AN EVENT BEING BROADCAST AROUND THE WORLD ANYWAY. THE CROWD PASSES AND SILENCE DESCENDS ONCE MORE. OUR HERO WIPES HIS BROW.]
Our Hero: Phew.
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
1957 - John Backus and IBM create FORTRAN. There’s nothing funny about IBM or FORTRAN. It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie.
This is nerd-funny.
And so begins another… #NIGHTOFTHEFREEIPAD
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In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations! What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!
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Items Jason Bourne May Or May Not Have Used As Improvised Weapons
- A pen
- A daschund
- The concept of space/time
- A copy of Vogue
- The inside of his lip
- His attackers’ terrible fashion-sense
- A spider held under a glass
- Hugh Grant
- His man-purse which he keeps on insisting is totally practical, manly and in right now despite the fact no-one’s questioning it
- A replica of the Death-Star (1/1 millionth scale)
- His puppy-dog sad-eyes
- Vaseline
- A lightly poached egg with toast soldiers
