Notes

Our neigh­bor­hood park added mon­key bars. Now we’re over­run with drunk mon­keys

And the award for Dumbest Emoji goes to…Mx Claus! 🧑‍🎄

What do ba­bies dream about?

How many go back full-time to pub­lic school in the next year and how many stay at home?

My REST APIs are cor­rect 200% of the time

My idea for a YouTube se­ries chan­nel “Butt or Scotch”: I will re­view brands of Scotch whisky. After tak­ing a sip of the Scotch, if it’s good, I’ll say, “That’s Scotch!” If it’s bad, I’ll say, “That’s butt!”

From T. S. Eliot’s Choruses from “The Rock”:

They con­stantly try to es­cape From the dark­ness out­side and within By dream­ing of sys­tems so per­fect that no one will need to be good.

Amber’s nick­name: Pork Snorpy

David started us­ing a pa­per dic­tio­nary:

My only re­gret is not re­al­iz­ing sooner how much I value qual­i­ties other than speed in my dic­tio­nary­ing — clean­li­ness, trans­parency, loy­alty to my best in­ter­ests, not to men­tion the re­fresh­ing phys­i­cal­ity of the whole thing.

The 20-5-3 rule:

• 20 min­utes every day out­side
• 5 hours a month “semi-wild” like a na­tional park
• 3 days a year off the grid in na­ture

Good ar­ti­cle, but the real take­away is:

On ma­cOS, you can open an emoji key­board with ctrl + cmd + space. On Windows, you can open one with win­dows + .

If you’re will­ing to em­brace the grind you’ll look like a ma­gi­cian.

The first free on­line copy of Domesday Book. With an in­ter­ac­tive map!

Excellent list. One of my fa­vorites:

36. Naming things is fan­tas­tic. Everything on the screen should have a name. It’s bet­ter for your work. It’s bet­ter for ac­ces­si­bil­ity. It’s bet­ter for your de­sign. Take a table view and name it ‘Inbox’, ‘Screener’, or ‘Paper Trail’, and they sud­denly mean some­thing. What you do with them has changed. A good name trans­forms de­sign and ac­tion.

Koser’s Theory of Leftovers: At mid­night, left­overs are re­dis­trib­uted evenly

(E.g., if I eat 4 pizza slices, Melissa eats 2, and there are 2 slices left, we both get 1 slice the next day)

Tell a story. Find a story struc­ture.

How am I just now see­ing this

By bet­ting on Starship, which en­tails a host of de­vel­op­ment risks, NASA is tak­ing a chance on what would be a much brighter fu­ture. One in which not a hand­ful of as­tro­nauts go to the Moon or Mars, but dozens and then hun­dreds. In this sense, Starship rep­re­sents a rad­i­cal de­par­ture for NASA and hu­man ex­plo­ration.

An in­ter­est­ing book by an in­ter­est­ing man. The dig­i­ti­za­tion story is also in­ter­est­ing.

Interesting es­says on early an­i­ma­tion

Read one of these as a kid and loved it. I had no idea the se­ries was so suc­cess­ful.

My fa­vorite blog post in years.

Gladdapadda!

My and my guys all sleep on our backs. We call our­selves The Back Sleep Boys.

Idea for an oven com­mer­cial: Hansel and Gretel can’t fit the witch into the mi­crowave

API and web­page to link ISBNs with goodreads, WorldCat, and Amazon book IDs

Willing to mud­dle

A guided tour that walks through the fun­da­men­tals of Git, in­spired by the premise that to know a thing is to do it.

Looks like a great be­gin­ner course

A cook­ing en­cy­clo­pe­dia that cov­ers thou­sands of in­gre­di­ents and kitchen tools. The sub­sti­tu­tions are the real star.

Free and lib­er­ated ebooks, care­fully pro­duced for the true book-lover.

This is dan­ger­ous

Scott Rolen hit a home­run for my 10th birth­day

Can we crit­i­cize poli­cies in­stead of dumb stuff like Joe Biden’s pul­pit say­ing, “The Office of the President Elect”?

We don’t know the true name of the bear!!!?

See when a word was first used in print. Turns out I’m as old as “nano-bot”, “gangsta rap”, and “air quotes”.

Analysts find the best sce­nario for econ­omy emerges when a Democrat is President, but Republicans con­trol Congress.

It de­pends on what you mean by “the econ­omy”. GDP? Stock mar­ket per­for­mance? Decreasing the poverty rate?

You should never as­sume that Google is in the right, but Oracle is al­ways wrong.

In the an­i­mated movie Hercules, I won­der why Disney used the Greek name for the ruler of the un­der­world, Hades, and not his Latin name, Pluto?

So next time some­one tells you we should­n’t be eat­ing food that’s been ge­net­i­cally mod­i­fied, you can tell them we al­ready are.

On 02/02/2020 GitHub cap­tured a snap­shot of every ac­tive pub­lic repos­i­tory. Those mil­lions of re­pos were then archived to hard­ened film de­signed to last for 1,000 years, and stored in the GitHub Arctic Code Vault in a de­com­mis­sioned coal mine deep be­neath an Arctic moun­tain in Svalbard, Norway.

Clothing that in­jects junk li­cense plate data into sur­veil­lance sys­tems

Is that how we want to raise our chil­dren? As ele­phant racists?

Looks like you’re faced with Sophie’s Choice: do you shoot your peanut but­ter child, or your choco­late child?

Church soft­ball game–Brian hit re­ally well each time at bat, and later got Philip Wedge out be­tween first and sec­ond base.

If every an­i­mal is spe­cial, and each one has its own, unique in­tel­li­gence, then why should we be any more en­am­ored of the oc­to­pus than, say, the clown­fish or the clam?

Oh my God

Lydia, while you were sleep­ing we tat­tooed a wolf on your butt. And if you don’t be­lieve me, you can go show your butt to your mother and ask her.

I never lis­ten to the haters. And it’s a good thing, be­cause they’re never right.

I don’t think Jesus was pay­ing for the bod­ies. Those are a bonus.

Naked came I out of my moth­er’s womb, and naked I shall come into the liv­ing room.

Amazing

Former co-worker Mike Kastrantas’s ar­cade game records on Twin Galaxies

I can’t think of a good anal­ogy for this

Goodreads rec­om­men­da­tions need work

You know what they say, love is an ac­tion. Also known as sex.

Gary Larson, wel­come to the in­ter­net

I had a whole gag­gle of 100-point bucks in my sights, sleep­ing peace­fully on their feet, like cows.

The WCE some­how comes up with 242 Catholic denom­i­na­tions. That should be a big glar­ing red flag that it has been a bit—how shall we say?—free and loose with the word “denom­i­na­tion.”

The fun­ni­est word is “hornk”.

I can’t help be­ing lin­ear

Josh Wainwright’s bird: the Indignant Dirt Dobbler

Never knew Pantone had a color of the year!

My phi­los­o­phy: When you go through life be­ing amaz­ing, amaz­ing things hap­pen.

Daniel’s Razor: The Daniel Special at Sushi Cafe is al­ways bet­ter than you ex­pect, even tak­ing into ac­count Daniel’s Razor.

(Apologies to Hofstadter’s Law)

😲

This is re­ally in-depth. If you want the biggest bang for your buck, just turn off all no­ti­fi­ca­tions.

Orange Juice and Coke is­n’t crazy!

Museum of Websites: A hand-cu­rated gallery of how fa­mous in­ter­net com­pa­nies have changed over time.

Foods we started eat­ing from this ar­ti­cle: sar­dines (still need to find bone-in), sea­weed, chicken liver (the paté recipe is great). Also love:

Make a house­hold rule that you have to take at least 7 bites be­fore deem­ing a food “yucky.”

Matt Koser:

An ap­ple pie with­out the cheese is like a kiss with­out the squeeze.

I had a whole gag­gle of 100-point bucks in my sights, sleep­ing peace­fully on their feet, like cows.

It’s a prob­lem if you have more Goodreads friends than books marked “read” on Goodreads

Every scene was a post cred­its scene un­til the 1960s

Project name idea: Brianstorm

Oh the huge man­a­tee!

Manatee of man­a­tees, all is man­a­tee.

If I’m ever on the run in Mexico, I’ll use the alias “Jorge Curioso”

Mike Moore:

Because he’s a cool dude with great taste and he loves lamb.

The are two hard things in com­puter sci­ence: orig­i­nal­ity and pro­fun­dity.

The li­brary is a gym for the mind.

Case-by-case sen­si­tive

Art’s power is in­tu­itive, not di­dac­tic.

I googled “clown names” and was dis­ap­pointed in hu­man­ity

A fan­tasy map cre­ator

Music genre map

Still dis­ap­pointed we never got my imag­ined se­quels to Super Smash Bros Melee and Brawl:

• Super Smash Bros Fracas
• Super Smash Bros Donnybrook
• Super Smash Bros Brouhaha

And Google spoils an­other movie. Thanks Google

Really, one could ar­gue that the worst mis­take Huff made was one that all of us have made at one point or an­other. He went to New Jersey.

Broinlaw

That time all the Pocket trend­ing ar­ti­cles were about AI

If we could choose any su­per­power, I’d pick ‘slowing time’ and Melissa would pick ‘telekinesis’. So my power would let me do more work, and hers would let her do less ☺️

A penny saved is a sec­ond wasted.