April 2011
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…and now I’m overhearing a pair of women on the bus, talking about their respective community service terms and disclosures where “it came back saying I done attempted murder but it was reduced to advanced (sic) assault”. All whilst their children run around the bus shrieking.
Today is not a good day.
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Overheard on a Train
Two hipsters on the 1631 Dyce–Aberdeen train:
Girl: “Anyone who thinks you’re born innocent is just an idiot, you just need to look into the eyes of a newborn to see there’s sin there.”
Boy: “I know, I know. Two-year-olds are especially bad — they can be mean and cruel and only care about what they want.”
Girl: “People say it’s survival instinct, but they’re wrong. It’s just pure greed. It’s all about what they want.”
Boy: “But the good thing is that you can teach them obedience. You can punish them until they realise that life is about God’s love.”
Me: [Conversation moves onto empty platitudes about doing “God’s work” amongst the “unChristian people in Africa”] >facepalm
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Maniacal Rage: “Lion Distribution” →
A really interesting piece from Garrett Murray on the kinks in the Mac App Store distribution method. What really caught my eye, and applies regardless of your platform, OS choice, or hardware, was the closing sentence:
[A]s always, back up, back up, back up.
Garrett Murray knows it, I know it, and you should know it. I can’t stress how important it is to have proper backups of your...
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“Typesetting” in Microsoft Word →
Having hopes is healthy. They can act as a motivator to reach your goals, a psychological stress-release valve, or even just an idle daydream. I hope that I win the EuroMillions lottery, that my MacBook will spontaneously sprout an i7 processor and 16 GB of RAM, that I’ll find the secret of eternal youth, and become the greatest thinker in the history of the human race. Like I said, hopes are...
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To Recap
From a piece in the New York Times, with the cringe-inducing title
“The Digital Generation Rediscover the Magic of Manual
Typewriters”:
They’re fetishizing old Underwoods, Smith Coronas and Remingtons,
recognizing them as well designed, functional and beautiful machines,
swapping them and showing them off to friends. At a series of events
called “type-ins,” they’ve been gathering in...