December 2010
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a.out: The Best Debugging Story I've Ever Heard →
patrickthomson:
Back in the early 80’s, my dad worked at Storage Technologies, a now-defunct corporate entity that made tape drives and pneumatic systems to drive these tapes at high speeds – for that period of time. (Used under license from Laughing Squid. The original is available here.) They had …
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and one by one the governments of the world toppled; not with a roar or a mighty bang, but a subdued whimper. brought to their knees by the machinations of their own greed. all that remained was a hollow husk, a dead mosquito on the backs of the people, who too were but shells of their former glory.
the bankers, the new kings, knowing their tenuous strength lied only in the value of their lies,...
If we scratched each others backs literally—as often as we do figuratively—our spines would be bare expressions of our love.
caughtthought asked: Let us assume you met a rudimentary magician. Let us assume he can do five simple tricks — he can pull a rabbit out of his hat, he can make a coin disappear, he can turn the ace of spades into the Joker card, and two others in a similar vein. These are his only tricks and he can’t learn any more; he can only do these five. However, it turns out he’s doing these five tricks with...
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Paranoia in my vision
faced with open derision in others’ eyes
only scorn until from this world I’m torn
to face another and another
with no surcease of sensation,
no recourse but exasperation.
I was sitting down playing video games at my computer when a spider crawled across the wall. It stopped on a spot next to my monitor so I could plainly see it. It is my policy to not mess with spiders in my house. I politely explain to them that they are welcome in my home, as long as they provide a service by clearing my space of undesirable insects…and provided that they do not bite me or...
