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"Sometimes, someone just comes along and gives you a compliment without even knowing. And it feels..."

Wed, 09 May 2012 23:12:14 +0100

“Sometimes, someone just comes along and gives you a compliment without even knowing. And it feels good.”

Photo

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:33:49 +0100

Photo

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:19:42 +0000

episode 2

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:09:46 +0000

That moment while watching a bad movie, someone says “It’s a trap” and your girlfriend does her best Ackbar impersonation in the next second.

#thisrelationshipisnotatrap

I really need t do more of this.

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:05:32 +0000

I really need t do more of this.

Photo

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:21:16 +0000

"Roses are red Violets are blue Something something something Cheesecake zombie lama"

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:24:03 +0000

“Roses are red
Violets are blue
Something something something
Cheesecake zombie lama”

- my lame attempt at poetry

incepti-camera: a photo of a camera within a camera....

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:54:24 +0000

incepti-camera: a photo of a camera within a camera. #weneedtogodeeper

talking softball, from maine to san diego

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:38:51 +0000

Often when discussing any idea with people close to me, they mistake me when shooting them down.

First, I need to state that I don’t take pleasure in crumbling other people’s ideas. Nor do I dislike being excited about a project. Rather the opposite. I enjoy being pumped to work with someone, if it’s their idea, and hopefully improve it. I’ve heard time and time again that I’m negative, don’t explore ideas, and other things of the sort.

Well, I’ve finally come up with an metaphor to explain why that is not the case, at all. Why I I keep shooting them down is simple:

Imagine you and friend are talking about starting a business. It’s a flying car competition. It’s a great idea, you’ll have stunts, some loops for drivers to drive into, maybe balloons you need to blow up. You go out, buy all the stuff, get a website, even hire some workers.

Then someone points out that the flying car hasn’t been invented. And all your work is lost.

Let me go back to me and my friends discussing ideas. We mostly discuss ideas for games, or software. Imagine you base your project in a premise that’s not really true. You go on, start discussing details. And after 2 hours of discussing and planning, one of you remembers that a certain problem invalidates the entire plan. And by now your train of thought will be fixed to this particular approach. You’ll try and adapt it. And while most of the times this is bad, it can work sometimes.

But if at the start of the discussion, one of you had remembered “oh, we can’t start a flying car race circuit ‘cause there aren’t any flying cars yet”, you would have saved time on an idea that would eventually be wasted.

That’s why when I’m presented with a new idea, my first instinct is to find it’s flaw(s), and see if they are in any way fixable… and go from there.

To conclude: just because someone tells you that you’re idea wont work, don’t let that stop you from having more ideas.

starry starry night

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:07:40 +0000

starry starry night

"refactoring code without tests is like playing jenga"

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:48:10 +0000

“refactoring code without tests is like playing jenga”

This is something special…

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:31:35 +0000

This is something special…

farts

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:08:54 +0000

People on a crowded bus react in a similar fashion as a gas in a vaccum: whenever some of that gas is removed, the rest of the gas expands to occupy the most space.

Thus, once a bus is crowded, no matter how many people leave, the remainder occupy more space to maintain the illusion that, in fact, the bus is still crowded.

This brings me to the conclusion that you can have a crowded bus with just one person.

Q.E.D.

"That was a ridiculously good way to start the day. I’m speechless."

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:40:53 +0100

“That was a ridiculously good way to start the day. I’m speechless.”

- thank you

Always making a good case for anonimity, eh ‘moot’?

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:57:51 +0100

Always making a good case for anonimity, eh ‘moot’?

"You shouldn’t obsess. But to be fair, neither should I."

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:48:17 +0100

“You shouldn’t obsess. But to be fair, neither should I.”

Video

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:44:03 +0100

Perfectly sunset, with the perfect music to match it, signals...

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:07:06 +0100

Perfectly sunset, with the perfect music to match it, signals the beginning of a perfect night.

the children of the night

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 05:01:05 +0100

So today some vampire shit-fest of late was on tv. And I thought of Bela Lugosi. I admit I have not yet seen Dracula yet — something I deeply regret, and should remedy ASAP — but I couldn’t help but wonder: is Bela Lugosi spinning in his grave with these new, sparkly vampires?

As luck would have it, it’s October, and Cinemassacre is running their usual halloween themed “Monster Madness” month. They were talking about Universal’s Frankenstein movies, but Lugosi’s name came up in a title card (he played a hunchback named Ygor in Son of Frankenstein) and I remembered that.

So I had to indulge myself. I did a google search.

bela lugosi “spinning in his grave”

And, surely enough, most results in the first page, were about sparkly vampires — quote one link:

Bela Lugosi was born on this day in 1882. (…) And he’s currently spinning in his grave thanks to Stephanie Meyer.

Ah, the interwebz. You never fail to be what I expect of you.

we could flood the streets, with light or love or heat, whatever

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:59:48 +0100

It makes me sad. It’s really a feeling I can’t describe, of missing something, something that needs to be there, that comforts me, that makes me feel better.

Try as I might, I can’t make sense of it. It used to be like this, and I used to like it like this, then things changed. I changed. I started expecting more. I started looking for that special warmth, that emotion that makes me wanna get up in the morning. And while I know I’m not the only affected, I think I feel it the most.

It’s hard. It’s a very hard thing to deal with. Knowing that only I have the power change this in the short term, I become scared. I freeze in place, waiting for that one moment when everything changes.

I’m scared. But I will never give up. I will prevail.

My toughts of day 2 without coffee in the office.