Now I'm rereading Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash bit by bit. Spoiler ahead: The important thing is, Hiro, that you have to understand the Mafia way. And the Mafia way is that we pursue larger goals …
I reread much of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon a few weeks ago and found this passage: "We're businessmen," Avi says. "We make money. Gold is worth money." "Gold is the corpse of value," says Goto Dengo. …
"Pretend you're in a giant teacup." "Why?!" "You just are." "It's like you have an 'it's complicated' in Facebook with yourself." "You should delicious that tweet - NOOOooooooo....." "Riker's so boring I'm falling asleep just …
"Each week. On This American Scrum. We have a theme. And ask three questions based on that theme. Question One: what did you do yesterday? Question two: what will you do, what do you aim …
In the last two weeks, I have learned rather a lot about configuring and troubleshooting usage of Empathy, Telepathy, Synaptic, PPAs, git, TeX/LaTeX/dvi, gtimelog, IRC and bip, RSA SSH, and XMPP. Well, it was a …
In my first week at Collabora, I've learned that I can stand to poke at .conf, .rc, and similar files for at most two hours out of my working day. I've also learned that the …
Perhaps wearing my oldest, most beat-up Electronic Frontier Foundation shirt to a party full of new-to-copyright law students is not as effective a dominance/status display as I'd hoped.
Well, this anxiety is a familiar bouquet.
Am I the only person who finds it especially auspicious when a person's first and last name combined count 8 or fewer letters, since then they could use it in an 8.3 DOS-style filename? (example: …
I am not yet ready to publicly join the conversation on cultural appropriation in fiction. However I wish to draw your attention to Rachel Chalmers's warm, smart, funny book reviews, which she posts in a …
