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The Borderlands 2 Gun Discarders Club 8 Oct 2012 | 01:40 pm
This is basically a review of, and a pros/cons rant about, Borderlands 2. If you're not into it, just don't read it! I'll write about stuff you like some other time. Maybe. So! I'm not the kind of p...
The Borderlands Gun Collector's Club 12 Mar 2012 | 08:44 pm
Craw is so damn frustrating!!! He and his sidekicks have killed me so many times that I think I am starting to get sore in real life....arghhh need better weapon!! He will die though, oh yes he will d...
Hacker News Fires Steve Yegge 28 Jul 2011 | 07:33 am
I woke up this morning...ish... to discover that Hacker News had finally had enough of me being at Google, so they forced me into early retirement. On Monday I was honored to be able to deliver a key...
eBay Patents 10-Click Checkout 22 Jul 2011 | 10:36 pm
San Jose, CA (Reuters) — Online auctions cartel eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) and its collections and incarceration arm PayPal announced that on July 21, 2011, the two companies had jointly been awarded United ...
Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit 2 Dec 2010 | 10:16 am
The worldwide Haskell community met up over beers today to celebrate their unprecedented discovery of an industry programmer who gives a shit about Haskell. On Wednesday, researchers issued a press r...
Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects With All That Private/Final Bullshit Removed 29 Jul 2010 | 08:40 am
EYJAFJÖLL, ICELAND — Java programmers around the globe are in a panic today over a Wikileaks press release issued at 8:15am GMT. Wikileaks announced that they will re-release the source code for thous...
Blogger Finger 15 Jul 2010 | 10:06 pm
Well! I've sure had a nice relaxing blog-free year. No worries, no haters, no Nooglers wandering by my office and staring at me through the window as if they expect me to crap in my hand and hurl it a...
A programmer's view of the Universe, part 3: The Death of Richard Dawkins 18 May 2009 | 09:47 pm
We're getting close to the end of my blog. After today's entry, I only have three left to write. After that, I'll only blog anonymously or (more likely) not at all. This is part three of five in my "...
Have you ever legalized marijuana? 9 Apr 2009 | 09:07 pm
Over the holidays I read a neat book called Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, by Dan Ariely. The book is a fascinating glimpse into several bizarre and unfortunate bu...
Story Time 13 Mar 2009 | 05:06 pm
So I've got all these fancy blog posts planned. More than planned, actually — they're well underway. But it's also been a busy couple of months, so nothing's really ready yet. To make my schedule eve...
