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Jul
3rd
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We should be worried when people with PR and advertising backgrounds or consulting firms are leading us in the ways of authenticity or integrity
Jul
2nd
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one could look at this with the perspective that it’s pretty much impossible to screw up the game’s story
Jun
30th
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Also of course you can change the directory name from “motherfuckers” to something less offensive. I just used “motherfuckers” because I asked myself the question, “where should I put these motherfuckers?”, and the obvious answer was a directory called “motherfuckers.
— Email from a co-worker
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“Oak Land is more authentic than The Mission because it’s crappier! Also, we’re a lot more poorer than you.”
Jun
27th
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why do you even need software? If you can do it without software, why would you want to bring software in to slow things down?
Jun
26th
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It’s hard to prove that good is the enemy of great, but the evidence speaks for itself.
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This is roughly equivalent to showing up at my home and demanding an opportunity to sift through my trash and check for signs of moral turpitude like blended Scotch or subversive literature like Fahrenheit 451
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Finally, I can feel comfortable teaching my kids to drive the family car,” said Harold Sperber of Chillicothe, OH. “And when my oldest misbehaves, I can threaten to throw his car away
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Imagine that you went back in time to the late 1960s and found Terry Gilliam, fresh from doing his weird low-fi collage/animations for Monty Python. You proceeded to inject Gilliam with so many steroids his penis shrank to the size of a hair follicle, and you smushed a dozen tabs of LSD under his tongue. And then you gave him the GDP of a few sub-Saharan countries. Gilliam might have made a movie not unlike this one.
Jun
25th
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I grieve for him; but I also grieve for the culture that created and destroyed him. That culture is ours’ and it is a lethal and brutal one: with fame and celebrity as its core values, with money as its sole motive, it chewed this child up and spat him out.
Jun
24th
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Jeremy M.: if you can figure out how to get around that error, i will buy you a cookie mattly: Jeremy McAnally: it’d have to be a whole-grain cookie without sugar giles: I’m guessing you didn’t know that I can’t eat refined grains of any kind? Jeremy M.: fair enough :P giles: mattly no not even then Jeremy M.: fine, i will buy you a pile of oats
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If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.
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brilliant unboxing satire (via kyle via stevenf)
Jun
23rd
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it’s similar to another usability problem — having Reset buttons on forms, which is also something that should die
Jun
19th
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consumers pay the equivalent of almost $1,500 per megabyte of data transferred, a rate over seventeen times more expensive than receiving data from the Hubble Space Telescope