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“I gotta admit: I don’t know who Snooki is”

Mason — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:15:13 +0000

lol~ fuck yeah! i feel… not only vindicated, but also relieved.

( no tweeting either )

Never Surrender

Mason — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:32:32 +0000

The only thing that need be said is that it stars Patrick Kilpatrick *and* Evan Evans.

best film since the documentary Red Dawn

Mason — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:43:51 +0000

fucking awesome

…

caution: snakes

Mason — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:43:14 +0000

protip: while at the office, don’t accidentally visit python.com when you meant python.org

dude, you fucking nailed it

Mason — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:22:51 +0000

So today people are all like, “Woooahh! from the ‘out-of-left-field‘ department,” and all like, “Huh?? Oracle buys Sun in a totally unexpected move, wooawww!” and shit like that.

Well, *I* fucking expected it!

However, that’s not because I am a keen analyst of the valley’s machinations, or anything like that; it’s simply because I happened to read Neil Mcallister’s Developer World article almost two weeks ago, when it was published.

Spoiler alert: peep the URL.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/what-if-oracle-bought-sun-microsystems-859

LOL – Kevin Rose, you are a cunt

Mason — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:54:21 +0000

You know your buddy’s neighbor, whose dog always shits in your buddy’s lawn, but who that one time when your buddy took a shovel and chucked all the shit back over the fence where it belonged got all indignant about somebody’s dog shitting in his lawn? That’s Digg’s Kevin Rose.

(I appreciate Gruber’s war against the Douchebar.)

UPDATE: Gruber wins.

‘TARD FIGHT!!!!

Mason — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:54:50 +0000

LOL. This rant from some Mozilla weenie is kinda awesome:

It’s written by some some Firefreaker, blog-raging at Dave fucking Winer. That’s sort of like MC Hammer sending hateful singing telegrams to Mick Jagger[0]. It’s the freetard vs the me-tard.
Everything Asa says about Dave is basically true[1].
Everything that Asa says about Firefox, except one thing[3], is a crock of shit. So you can tell he must really sincerely believe it! Otherwise… you know, he’d notice.
“The Awesomebar has changed the Web.” LOL, jesus fucking christ. The “Awesome bar”.

–

[0]: the many, many ways that this analogy works are left as an exercise for the reader

[1]: which is actually why I do keep Dave in my RSS reader, albeit pretty far down the list

[2]: The fact that a non-MSIE browser got significant market share really did help the world, of course. But it was also utterly inevitable. So is Firefox better than the browser that would have come along a bit later had Firefox not come along? Nobody knows, obviously. But is Firefox in the present day better than Chrome/Safari/whatever? That’s knowable.

[3]: There is no footnote 3.

34 ways to die*

Mason — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:28:24 +0000

My new Japanese ashtray makes it easy to quantify my failure to quit smoking.

Plus, it closes shut to keep the stinky mess in.

Finally, the iPhone camera is an embarrassment.

*: or at least, to smell bad and age faster.

blink faster

Mason — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:17:58 +0000

The languid pulsing of the insertion-point cursor when editing text is an aspect of Mac OS X that has bothered me for years, but bothered me to such a tiny degree that I never bothered to find out if there was a way to fix it.

But today I finally asked the oracle, and inside of ten seconds had my answer. The NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriod default seems to work in most Cocoa apps, Xcode included, and the value seems to be in milliseconds. So a simple:

Mac-Pro:~ mason$ defaults write -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriod 187

…and voila! No more sllloooooow hypnoooootic bliiiiiiinkiiiiiing…

GRIEFERS KILLING EPILEPTIC SPAZTARDS VIA THE MATRIX!

Mason — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:06:20 +0000

WOW, BLACK ICE, FINALLY!

WELL, AT LEAST GREY ICE. OKAY, KINDA SHIT-LOOKING BROWN ICE. BUT STILL…

Holy fucking shit! That’s interesting… I mean, these are some fucking dicks, no doubt. But who exactly are these dicks? Nobody knows… but *then* it was blamed on the anti-scientology-cult entity known as “Anonymous”. Oooh. Wait wait, *then* the rumor was that no no no it is actually *scientologists* doing it, but trying to frame the anti-scientologists as being some fucking dicks who would hack-attack epileptics on the intermatrix.

And then, as interesting as it was, I just simply lost interest, and had to get some work done.

But for the record, if I was on the jury in the trial of the epileptic who had killed the scientologist griefer, I think I would probably have to hang it…

good Bruce Schneier interview

Mason — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:42:52 +0000

A good interview with Bruce Schneier, discussing this and that. He’s one of the few smart people that exist, and this Freakonomics interview is geared toward the layman (ahem, Dad) and worth reading. (To protect against the idiot webmasters of the future and/or the present, I made an archive copy of the article.)

new gun

Mason — Tue, 20 Nov 1979 21:05:09 +0000

My grandma got me this new gun. It’s red, which is kind of lame, but in her defense it is kind of hard to find realistic looking guns that still shoot. Especially cowboy guns. My dad told me I am lucky that it’s the seventies.

He claims that if I was born in the nineties I wouldn’t even be able to get any realistic looking toy guns, because they’ll be illegal by then. I really doubt it, but I guess we’ll see. This gun works great for shooting the neighbor’s cat, anyway. Which is cool, because there’s no one to play with here.