Jan
5th
Mon
5th
Jan
2nd
Fri
2nd
Words are your birthright. Unlike music, painting, dance and raffia work, you don’t have to be taught any part of language or buy any equipment to use it, all the power of it was in you from the moment the head of daddy’s little wiggler fused with the wall of mummy’s little bubble. So if you’ve got it, use it. Don’t be afraid of it, don’t believe it belongs to anyone else, don’t let anyone bully you into believing that there are rules and secrets of grammar and verbal deployment that you are not privy to. Don’t be humiliated by dinosaurs into thinking yourself inferior because you can’t spell broccoli or moccasins. Just let the words fly from your lips and your pen. Give them rhythm and depth and height and silliness. Give them filth and form and noble stupidity. Words are free and all words, light and frothy, firm and sculpted as they may be, bear the history of their passage from lip to lip over thousands of years.
Only to a dullard is language a means of communication and nothing more. It would be like saying sex is a means of reproduction and no more and food a means of fuelling and no more. In life you have to explain wine. You have to explain cheese. You have to explain love. You can’t, but you have to try, or if not try you have, surely, to be aware of the astonishing fact of them.
Girl on a Motorcycle (or wooden trike)
Jan
1st
Thu
1st
while (days > 365)
{
if (IsLeapYear(year))
{
if (days > 366)
{
days -= 366;
year += 1;
}
}
else
{
days -= 365;
year += 1;
}
}
— Zune Bug
Dec
30th
Tue
30th
You never know what the next big thing is until the dust has settled and the winner’s been decided. If you wait that long, you’re not learning the next big thing; you’re just learning the big thing.
Dec
27th
Sat
27th
Best. Christmas. Ever.
Dec
26th
Fri
26th
via wilw
Dec
17th
Wed
17th
With the additional of Metal and Rack middleware support, Rails effectively includes a micro-framework of its own; one that either tighly integrates with Rails or is executed separately – whichever the need dictates.
Amanda Palmer “Oasis” Music Video - Dedicated To Sarah Palin (via amandapalmer)