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Author: Teel
ReInventing Everything
Before my browser crashed a moment ago, I was in the middle of posting this, so if this doesn’t make any sense, assume that the thoughts I had already typed in were lost in the crash. Also, before my browser crashed, I had something on the order of 15 browser windows open to various sites, and found myself in the midst of taking on a very large project that, maybe, I won’t actually have to do. There is a thing that I want to be able to accomplish, and some programmers have done a similar thing in a Unix environment, with limited usability, mostly to show that the technology would be useful if developed fully. What I had started was learning several different programming languages and protocols so that I could develop first an understanding of how the existing software works, then develop the software that does what I want to accomplish. So, I was examining the existing software products to understand how the features they offered related to the features I wanted, and the languages that the software was written in, and then, before I got too far, I realized what I was doing.
I want flying shoes
Hey, does anyone want to go in with me on 3500 pair of Flying Shoes[original link dead – now via archive.org]? I could really use a pair of Flying Shoes. I don’t know what I’d do with the other 3499 pair that come in a minimum order, though. Have 3498 friends?
A state of the Music address.
Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity, has written about his take on the Billboard Top Ten Albums for today. This man is hilarious. Check it out.
Who knew Destiny’s Child was capable of “one of the tidiest ontological arguments you could wish to hear”?
Islamic women DO get respect
A group of Turkish women, fed up with lugging water for miles from the town fountain, are withholding sex until their men fix the village water system.
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