bluebones.net daily

Alan Watts on Life

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:42:00 +0000

Biggest Drawing in the World

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:48:00 +0000

Update: in retrospect, it was rather far-fetched

Ruby on Rails Oath

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:20:00 +0000

Now that I am a full-time Ruby developer, I have found The One True Way. I will take everything that DHH says as gospel. I will take every opportunity to heap scorn upon .NET and Java programmers. I will never admit that Ruby or Rails have any flaws. I will listen to Kraftwerk, read Manga and drink café lattes on the train. I will polish my MacBook daily and queue up to buy any new iterations of the iPod. I will watch Apple WWDC videos the very millisecond they become available on the web. Any time someone shows me a code example I will later send them a rewrite in Ruby to show how elegant it could be. This is the Ruby on Rails oath.

Clinton Forbes

Area Codes In Which Ludacris Claims to Have Hoes

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:01:00 +0000

Thou Shalt Always Kill

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:29:00 +0000

Abyss

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:02:00 +0000

PHP takes the worse-is-better approach to dazzling new depths

-- Larry Wall

Chicken Chicken Chicken

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:25:00 +0000

Chicken Chicken

Can Submarines Think?

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:45:00 +0000

' ... the question "Can machines think?" is regularly raised; we can - and should - deal with that by pointing out that it is just as relevant as the equally burning question "Can submarines swim?"'

prof. dr. Edsger W. Dykstra, Austin, 23 September 1985

History

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:59:00 +0000

When did you last write a for loop?

The Multicore Present

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:50:00 +0000

Write Me A Small Program

Be Afraid

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:28:00 +0000

this song is fucking LOL!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:10:00 +0000

Oh yah, LOL is a word now. Not an abbreviation. I told you.

Wall Animation

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:34:00 +0000

blublu.org

Genius of Wikipedia

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:15:00 +0000

“Byzantine generals” redirects here. For actual Byzantine generals, see Category:Byzantine generals.

We Aren't Smart Enough

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:44:00 +0000

Ugly Code

Live Train Map

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:46:00 +0000

traintimes.org.uk/map

Nathaniel Borenstein Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:53:00 +0000

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.

It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

Real Estate Search Engine

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:39:00 +0000

extate

Very nice. Programmed by Imperial College grads. Paper.

BBC World in America

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:40:00 +0000

Woah

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:49:00 +0000

Seadragon and Photosynth

www.lost.eu/4d253

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Fri, 25 May 2007 21:33:00 +0000

www.lost.eu/4d253

Injudicious Use of Colour

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Fri, 25 May 2007 00:03:00 +0000

No Surprises

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:47:00 +0000

I took one from Thom Yorke
And another one from Björk
And please I need publicity - take me to court

(No Suprises - The Real Riff Raff)

French Txt Spk

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:01:00 +0000

Playing poker online at pokerroom.com I "overheard" two French people typing in the French equivalent to Txt Spk. "c" for "c'est" and "oci" for "aussi". And "dsl" for "je suis desole".

Love You Too xxx

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas David Baker) — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:04:00 +0000

My fiancée sent me a message ending in "xxxxxxxxxxxx" (for kisses). Gmail's adsense says:

Nice.