April 2012
1 post
Circada
an excerpt from this awesome post.
“A few years ago, I read some interesting stuff on periodical cicadas. We generally don’t see a lot of these little guys as they spend the vast majority of their lives quietly tunneling away underground and munching on tree roots.
However, depending on the species, every 7, 13, or 17 years these periodical cicadas simultaneously emerge en masse, transform...
March 2012
1 post
Play Poker, Not Chess
“Not chess, Mr. Spock. Poker. Do you know the game?”
In one of my all-time favorite Star Trek episodes, Kirk and his crew face down an unknown vessel from a group calling themselves the “First Federation.” Threats from the vessel escalate until it seems that the destruction of the Enterprise is imminent. Kirk asks Spock for options, who replies that the Enterprise has been playing a game of...
December 2011
2 posts
“… But most types of work have aspects one doesn’t like, because most types of work consist of doing things for other people, and it’s very unlikely that the tasks imposed by their needs will happen to align exactly with what you want to do.”
http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html
it’s been over a year now, we’re just getting started.
thanks for all the fish
November 2011
1 post
“Blues and jazz musicians have long been enabled by a kind of “open source”...”
– http://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by...”
– Martin Luther King (via seleucid)
March 2011
1 post
“Our industry, the global programming community, is fashion-driven to a degree...”
– STEVE YEGGE
http://www.manning.com/fogus/excerpt_foreword.html
February 2011
3 posts
“Great software, likewise, requires a fanatical devotion to beauty. If you look...”
– Paul Graham, “Hackers and Painters,” 2003
“I was being sarcastic” is the worst thing to say ever, it’s even worse than “it’s a joke”
January 2011
3 posts
“Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, “I know, I’ll use regular...”
– Jamie Zawinski
“Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.”
December 2010
1 post
The algorithm is O(n)
We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves. The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm constantly finds Jesus. This is not the algorithm. This is close.
November 2010
1 post
Ask yourself frequently, “Am I having fun?”
The answer needn’t always be yes. But if it’s always no…
October 2010
1 post
“You gotta do what your heart tells you to do. Let me tell you somethin’...”
– Sonny
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106489/quotes?qt0409119
August 2010
2 posts
The Story Of The Clown
A certain man made an appointment to see a psychologist. He arrived at the psychologist’s office and said to him, “Doctor, I always feel depressed. No matter what I do I still feel depressed. I just don’t know what to do.”
The psychologist looked at him and said, “Come with me to the window.”
The man followed and...
April 2010
3 posts
“So if I asked you about art, you’d probably give me the skinny on every...”
– Sean Maguire From the movie “Good Will Hunting”
هموم الحب
يا هموم الحب يا قبل
في بحار الشوق تغتسل
كلما قلنا صفا زمن رجعت كالريح تشتعل
أي هذا القلب كيف لنا هرب من خطوه الملل
أيدوم الحب تسألني حلوة جنت بها السبل
أيظل الروض مبتسما و يطول البوح و الخجل
و أنا لا علم لي و غدي كل يوم بات يرتجل
هات لي عمري فأجعله طائرا في الأرض ينتقل
أنا يوم البعد أغنية تأخذ الدنيا و ترتحل
المخاطر الصحية الرهيبة للخبز والمعجنات
1- إن أكثر من 98 بالمائة من المجرمين يتعاطون الخبز.
2- نصف الأطفال في الأسر التي تتناول الخبز ذكاؤهم أقل من المتوسط.
3- في القرن الثامن عشر، عندما كان كل الخبز يصنع في المنزل ويؤكل يومياً بكثرة، كان متوسط العمر الافتراضي أقل من 50 سنة… ومعدل وفيات الأطفال الرضع كان عالياً جداً، كثير من النساء ماتوا في الولادة، وكان معدل الإصابة بأمراض السل والتيفوئيد والحمى الصفراء مرتفعاً وقد...
March 2010
1 post
بلادي - نزار قباني
مِنْ لثْغَةِ الشحرورِ منْ بَحَّة نايٍ مُحْزِنَهْ مِنْ رجفة المُوّال مِنْ تنهُّداتِ المئذنهْ مِن غَيمةٍ تحبكُها عند الغروب المدخنهْ و جُرْح قرميدِ القرى المنثورةِ … المزينهْ مِنْ وشْوَشَات ِ نجمةٍ في شرقنا … مستوطنهْ مِنْ قصّةٍ تدورُ بين وردةٍ .. وسَوْسَنَهْ و من شذا فلاّحة تعبق منها ( الميْجَنَهْ ) و من لهاث حاطبٍ عاد بفأسٍ مُوهَنَهْ جبالنا .. مروحةٌ للشرقِ غرقى...
February 2010
2 posts
This joke never gets old (:
WIFE: ‘What would you do if I died? Would you get married again?
HUSBAND: ‘Definitely not!
WIFE: ‘Why not? Don’t you like being married?’
HUSBAND: ‘Of course I do.
WIFE: ‘Then why wouldn’t you remarry?
HUSBAND: ‘Okay, okay, I’d get married again.’
WIFE: ‘You would?’
HUSBAND: …….?
WIFE: ‘Would...
بلاد المطربين.. أوطاني
وصلتُ إلى بيروت في بداية التسعينات، في توقيت وصول الشاب خالد إلى النجوميّة العالميّة. أُغنية واحدة قذفت به إلى المجد• كانت أغنية “دي دي واه” شاغلة الناس ليلاً ونهاراً. على موسيقاها تُقام الأعراس، وتُقدَّم عروض الأزياء، وعلى إيقاعها ترقص بيروت ليلاً، وتذهب إلى مشاغلها صباحاً.
كنت قادمة لتوِّي من باريس، وفي حوزتي مخطوط “الجسد”، أربعمائة صفحة قضيت أربع سنوات في نحتها...
December 2009
1 post
Play Your Age
A woman is having a bad day at the roulette tables in Vegas. Down to her last $100, completely exasperated, she cries, “What horrible luck! What in the world should I do now?”
A gentleman next to her, trying to calm her down a bit, calmly suggests, “I don’t know… Why don’t you play your age?”
He walks away. Moments later, he is intrigued to hear a great commotion at the roulette table. Maybe,...
November 2009
3 posts
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. - Mitch Hedberg
“Whenever a programmer has the urge to create a new programming language, the proper response is to lie down on the couch and wait until the feeling passes.” – Anonymous
