wow, that's a helluva compliment, and i'll take it!
this person is talking about lurker.chat, which went into private beta tonight.
somehow today i got baited into trying to have a genuine intellectual argument with someone on irc, forgetting that the only people on irc are complete fucking morons who can barely function much less reconcile their jumbled thoughts into a coherent position
Somehow there was a bunch of corn in Viggo’s poop this morning, which makes no sense because he wouldn’t eat corn if it was around I’m pretty sure, and there definitely wasn’t any corn around him, like, ever in history.
Who could have known that building a social network dedicated to the dumbest and poorest people in a country would have trouble making money…
I think the real problem with most people is just a lack of imagination.
They can't imagine a life outside of their current one, so they can't believe there is better out there for them if they tried.
They can't imagine future scenarios beyond the first couple of steps, so they can't predict the consequences of their actions. (Or design a resilient system.)
They can't imagine, even a little bit, what it is like to be somebody else, so they're completely unable to relate or empathize with anyone who doesn't seem just like themselves.
I previously harped a lot on curiosity being the most important quality a person can have to make them successful in life, but I think a close runner up is imagination. So I guess I'm in agreement with Einstein, at least partially. Curiosity, I think, is fuel for imagination?
Holy shit, this video is crazy. I could never do a single thing this guy does. At one point I felt myself getting claustrophobic just watching the video. I’m only twenty minute into it, he’s not even at the island yet.
Earlier today the Apple Music auto-mix thing seamlessly mixed "Are You There?" by Josh Wink (acid house) into "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" by Billy Ocean and it was glorious, and unhinged.
A problem I have is that I frequently don't want to listen to myself, in one way or another. Like, I clearly want to sit on the computer and work on programming projects, but I'm like no, you should go play a video game and relax, you don't need to program all the time, but then, like, I don't want to do that, so then I procrastinate, sitting around, twiddling my thumbs, looking at reddit, wasting time not really relaxing and not really being productive.
Sorry I also just want to make fun of John Gruber again for thinking that instead of banning smoking for young people, we should just tax them so that the only people effectively banned from smoking are poor people and rich people can smoke all they want. What a clown this guy is! Someone's got rich guy brain.
John Gruber joins a long lineage in assuming there was deep thinking behind any of George Lucas' Star Wars decisions. In this episode, he thinks there is some undercurrent to Star Wars where the underclasses hate droids and thinks it's a parallel to our modern era where people are hating AI. In truth it's more likely George Lucas was like, "This is supposed to be a seedy underbelly, someone needs to act like a racist, what can they be racist against? Oh, the droids, nice, let's do that," without any thought behind it past the surface level need to have something a little colorful happen.
A little googling confirms this, plus the retconning that people hate droids after The Clone Wars happened. John Gruber is also totally ignoring the fact that Luke's own adoptive parents used droids and they were moisture farmers on a seemingly impoverished-in-general world. Also, obviously, droids don't consume food or drink so they would just take up space that doesn't make money in a cantina.
Anyway, just John Gruber proving again that just because you write a blog about Apple products, that doesn't mean you are some kind of genius who even bothers to google his theories for confirmation before proudly writing about them on the internet.