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  • Commented on Space Robot Sad Trombone
    I feel a certain kinship with the Voyager probes because we're the same age. I've got a few months on them, but it's like we started our respective lives at the same time. It's comforting to speculate that, long after...
  • Commented on YAPC::NA 2014 keynote: Programming Perl in 2034
    "...the Bayesian spoor of conspiracy..." By far my favorite phrase I've read and/or heard this week....
  • Commented on One week to go to THE RHESUS CHART
    Excellent. Thanks for the update, and the upcoming preview, Charlie. I'm looking forward to it....
  • Commented on Competition Time!
    Inappropriate usage of voodoo dolls by members of mid-level management to extract peak performance from subordinates....
  • Commented on Schadenfreude
    I'm reminded of something that Grant Morrison wrote in an issue of The Invisibles: "Money is a ghost, and it has made all of you its slaves."...
  • Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
    Ah, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. Now, the Linux Inquisition... Our chief weapons are fear, the command line, and a ruthless adherence to POSIX!...
  • Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
    @69: "Jack Mormons" Very good. So, do we consider the Cyanogen adherents to be unbaptized sympathizers or lapsed, friendly members?...
  • Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
    So, if Android is equivalent to the church of the Latter-Day Saints, what does that make Cyanogen?...
  • Commented on The regular holy war ...
    I enjoy Slackware. That is all....
  • Commented on Parasites
    Ah shoot, just realized that Ophiocordyceps unilateralis was mentioned in the original article. With a link, even! Well. I'm still fascinated by them....
  • Commented on Parasites
    I don't know if the Ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus is my favorite parasite, more like the one by which I'm most morbidly fascinated. If you're not familiar with this particular invader, briefly, it infects carpenter ants that live in rainforest trees...
  • Commented on Rinse, Drain, Spin ... more Laundry!
    "NecronomiPod" The cursed mp3 player, of which we dare not speak. Thanks, Charlie, that made my morning a little lighter....
  • Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
    Just like Fox News is a news-tinged cable channel?...
  • Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
    "News-shaped prose"! Now there's a quality turn of phrase....
  • Commented on Sitrep
    Grant Morrison wrote (some time ago now) in an Invisibles letter column that he didn't think people were evil, just stupid and scared. The rub was that some of us had far more power than stupid, scared people should....
  • Commented on Sitrep
    Would that be an African or a European swallow, do you reckon?...
  • Commented on Monarchy versus the Panopticon
    nelc @ 55: I say this with no formal authority attached to it, but I think the majority of my fellow Americans would love the presence of the royals just north of the border. As I type this, the new...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: 419/Rule 34
    heteromeles: I was recently thinking that Halting State would work well as a long-form TV serial; glad to see the idea has some legs. And, really, this is the best message board around. At least, the best one that I...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Saturn's Children
    Sometimes, in the wee hours of the morning, when all my defenses are down, I get to thinking that postmodern praxis has turned everything into an inside joke....
  • Commented on Another commercial ...
    Hey, add some werewolves and surly teenage girls, then call it the "Crepuscular Saga" and you'll have yourself an absolute smash on your hands....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Halting State
    Slaves to the inadequacy of meat-borne perception....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Halting State
    Ah, LAG!, blind idiot god of network traffic, will we never be free of your influence? Thanks for that, it's always good to read something funny first thing in the AM....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Halting State
    Second person shooters, then, are also third person shooters. All this mixing of tenses is starting to get a bit Strange Loop-y, eh? I like the idea of a time delay shooter, though, an automatic handicap to work around. You...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Halting State
    All right then, please describe to us a third person shooter, implemented in the past perfect tense....
  • Commented on We interrupt this broadcast ...
    Region leak, huh? Didn't Borges write a story about that?...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Halting State
    Just add a second controller. But seriously, how would that even work? Is a second person shooter a game where you play as a series of first person targets?...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Halting State
    "...the natural voice of the classic text adventure game." That's why it's entirely in the second person! I have to admit that thought never occurred to me, I just thought it was a narrative trick on your part to keep...
  • Commented on Bit Rot
    This was an entertaining read. Best way to spend a break during work, in my opinion. The visceral quality of Bit Rot is its most striking attribute, the description of Doctor-Mechanic Wo's ministrations made me cringe...in a good way, of...
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