"You could use Dissociated Press to generate the string and then reverse the tokens. Is 'tokens' the right word?" "Yes, it is." "YES!" "What's the singular of vermin?" Since people who arrive new and befuddled …
You know what's really depressing? When I could have been learning Lisp or Kannada or organic chemistry or the piano, I was watching multiple episodes of Full House Family Matters Punky Brewster Small Wonder Perfect …
Some peers of mine have been wondering whether any of the YCombinator startups actually cure pressing user needs. Leonard points out that reddit and infogami are cool, and that two successes out of eight attempts …
Man, there are a lot of business out there with "solution[s]" in their titles.
In this week's column I talk about the word on the tip of my tongue. The most powerful word I've learned in the past decade is probably "satisfice." Researcher Herb Simon coined this word, a …
Slacktivist pointed me to a post about morality at Obsidian Wings.
Frighteningly often, the moments of lucid contentment in my life involve consumption. Just now, I felt that complacent blanket as I drank rooibos tea, listened to Belle & Sebastian and Harvey Danger, and read John-Paul. …
Last week's MC Masala did not answer that question but poked fun at my own language foibles. As an aside: If India's Hollywood, Bombay, is called "Bollywood," then shouldn't we call Bangalore "Bilicon Balley" or …
"That's my meta-weakness: getting into situations where my weakness is applicable."
