November 2009
15 posts
“Don’t say that you have a great sense of humour. Just be funny.”
– Moi.
I know that it’s totally just that old “show, don’t tell” thing that every writer learns in their first lecture, but I still got a little tingle when I wrote that down.
(Alternatively: don’t say that you’re a great programmer. Just make awesome things.)
I know it’s totally neurotic to think about Twitter stuff this much, but here’s how I make sure that the stuff I write on Twitter is “good enough”:
I try to keep the quality of what I write high enough that if an Internet person whose work I like came along at any time and happened to see my Twitter, they wouldn’t think I was a dick, and I would be happy (nay proud)...
Huh. So Roland Emmerich’s latest film, 2012, is a disaster movie.
Unlike his last one, 10,000 BC. That one was just a disaster.
I wish Jakob Nielsen was more like Leslie Nielsen.
I just want to tell you both good luck, and text is more usable for the web than images.
“This is hard, and you are not stupid.”
– Aaron Hillegass in Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, after telling you to write your own code for the first time and not just copy the code that’s in the book.
Most of my Bluetooth experiences have been one-night-stands — the two devices pair up, do their thing, go to sleep afterwards and then when they wake up they act like nothing happened between them.
Amirite, fellas? Bluetooth? Open wireless protocol for exchanging data over short distances using radio waves?
Oh forget it.
Tekken: The Motion Picture
Really, Hollywood? You’re making Tekken into a live-action feature-length film? Really?
Let’s look at the track record for movies that have been adapted from fighting video games:
Double Dragon
Mortal Kombat (sequel)
Street Fighter (sequel)
Dead or Alive
You’d think they’d learn.
Qué irónico: MK, SF and DoA are some of my favourite-but-in-an-ironic-way movies. So, in...
iPhone Ringtones From The Terminal
I wrote a shell script that makes audio files into ringtones for your iPhone. It works on Macs running Leopard or higher, and you can find it here. To find out how to use it, just cd to the directory you put the shell script in and type
./iprc.sh -help
to get started. That’ll tell you how to use it. An example (and the whole reason I made the script) would be:
$ ./iprc.sh...
Everything Should Have An API
The Setup is one of my favourite websites.
the setup is a bunch of nerdy interviews. what do people use to get the job done?
Awesome computer/internet people are interviewed about the tools that they use to do their work. One of the questions asked of everyone on the site is “What would be your dream setup?” Now, the usual answers involve things like more RAM, bigger monitors,...
Mac Tees
So I’ve been working on a thing.
Introducing Mac Tees:
Mac Tees is a directory for the internet’s most awesome Macintosh t-shirts. The best Mac shirts are made by people who run small, independent websites, and there was no one place I could go on the internet to find really nice Macintosh t-shirts. That’s why this site exists — now there is a single place on the internet...
October 2009
37 posts
EPIPHANY: Imagine how much more badass Jurassic Park would have been if Samuel L. Jackson had played Muldoon instead of Arnold.
That one… shiiit, when that bitch looks at you, you can tell that motherfucker’s workin’ things out.
Describe what John Hammond looks like!
They’re motherfuckin’ lethal at eight months, and I do mean lethal. Shit, I’ve hunted most...
I Need An iPhone Book Reader
This post is not funny (unless you find a man’s pain to be amusing, in which case, laugh it up, fuzzball). It’s a cry for help. Kinda.
OK, so I’ve got a bunch of books that are in PDF format. I want to have them on my iPhone. I want an application that stores the PDFs locally and remembers which page I’m up to so that when I open up the app next time, I don’t have to...