May 2012
11 posts
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alice-unchained:
my dad ate a cucumber today and he was like “wow this is pretty cold” and then he just slowly put the cucumber down and stared into space for a really long time until he turned to me with wide eyes and quietly said, “oh my god. cool as a cucumber.”
April 2012
16 posts
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“Articles that suggest paedophiles stalk Facebook looking for children whose...”
– Image Dissectors on “The Facebook Eye” image used to illustrate articles about Facebook in newspapers
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“The text is massive. If you had a 42-inch television, each letter would probably...”
– Image Dissectors on the title sequence of HBO’s new comedy Girls
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“Assuming that, on an “About Us” page, you don’t want to know...”
– The Image Dissectors “About Us” Page
“Don’t open this at work. But if you sincerely feel your time has come, here’s...”
– An aside in Gawker writer Adrian Chen’s possible masterwork, “Finding Goatse: The Mystery Man Behind the Most Disturbing Internet Meme in History.” Don’t click the links unless you dare. (Except for the one that leads to the story.) Not safe for work. (via shortformblog)
March 2012
27 posts
5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women →
icantbelieveitsalawblog:
Pretty good article, in terms of telling guys some stuff they desperately need to know. It’s also great if you want to read some seriously butthurt commentary from some bros.
cjbrowne:
Less Stupid Than Yesterday: Aspirations (25/03/2012)
lessstupidthanyesterday:
Yesterday, I went back to University to get my fake MA.
It was a really strange experience, partly because I was staying in a room that looked just like my room from the first year, seven years ago. Suddenly, I had flooding back to me all my feelings, emotions, hopes and aspirations of that…
Life...
cjbrowne:
Less Stupid Than Yesterday: Management Over Heads (19/03/2012)
lessstupidthanyesterday:
I went for lunch the other day with some friends I use to work with. It was interesting talking to them about work. I’m a manager now, and so my viewpoint of things has changed.
As always, we were complaining about management decisions. I realised, as they spoke, that, actually, many of...
filial:
cjbrowne:
Less Stupid Than Yesterday: Line Thickness (18/03/2012)
lessstupidthanyesterday:
For a long time when I wrote CSS and needed to put a line around something, my go-to code was:
border:1px solid black
I just loved one pixel of pure solid black. Here it is in action:
See. 1px of black border around everything! Then, when using IFTT I had a bit of a change of…
Thank...
Argument Cycle
cjbrowne:
Less Stupid Than Yesterday: Argument Cycle (17/03/2012)
lessstupidthanyesterday:
There’s been a few times recently when people have started arguing with me about things. At work, it’s a bit of an occupational habit, as I often have to make difficult, and not always popular, decisions.
What I’ve realised, though, is there’s a standard “pattern” to arguments. The “Argument…
...
The Power of Habit →
youmightfindyourself:
All habits—no matter how large or small—have three components, according to neurological studies. There’s a cue—a trigger for a particular behavior; a routine, which is the behavior itself; and a reward, which is how your brain decides whether to remember a habit for the future. When Hopkins identified tooth film, he found a cue that had existed for eons. Moreover, the...
Table Details
cjbrowne:
Simon Pitt: Table Details (07/03/2012)
cjbrowne:
lessstupidthanyesterday:
I spent a silly amount of time yesterday troubleshooting an access error. It kept saying I had an error in my SQL, yet I knew it was correct.
In the end, it turned out one of the columns had a reserved name.
The moral of the story is, always enclose…
It’s been years since I worked with MySQL...
Running Projects
cjbrowne:
Simon Pitt: Less Stupid Than Yesterday: Running Projects (12/03/2012)
cjbrowne:
Less Stupid Than Yesterday: Running Projects (12/03/2012)
lessstupidthanyesterday:
My team at work has leapt into action because there is an audit coming up next month. Sneakily, I’ve told them the deadline is an earlier than it actually is - which I know is bad of me, and…
Ah, well in that...
Table Details (07/03/2012)
cjbrowne:
lessstupidthanyesterday:
I spent a silly amount of time yesterday troubleshooting an access error. It kept saying I had an error in my SQL, yet I knew it was correct.
In the end, it turned out one of the columns had a reserved name.
The moral of the story is, always enclose your column names with square brackets:
SELECT [Column] FROM [Table]
It’s easy to get lazy. Just don’t....
Less Stupid Than Yesterday: Running Projects...
cjbrowne:
Less Stupid Than Yesterday: Running Projects (12/03/2012)
lessstupidthanyesterday:
My team at work has leapt into action because there is an audit coming up next month. Sneakily, I’ve told them the deadline is an earlier than it actually is - which I know is bad of me, and I need to trust them more, but I’ve been burnt too many times. I need to slowly bring them round to...
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“Demetrius: “Villain, what hast thou done?”
Aaron: “That which...”
– Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare
Shakespeare does a “yo momma” joke.
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“A good advertising campaign reflects the values of the product that’s...”
– Sky is After You Via Image Dissectors
