September 2008
20 posts
“Money can’t buy you love, but love can bring you money. In software the...”
– Penny Arcade! - The Origin Of The CD-Keys, Part Three (Daniel James of Three Rings)
Apple and the App Store
Apple makes some swell stuff. The relentless quest to acquire instances - actual physical manifestations - of the latest iteration of the shining jewel that is the iPhone evokes in some individuals a kind of primal hunger; Their raving lust betrays a consuming appetite that one typically associates with the reanimated dead, craving the succulence of human flesh and unabating in intensity prior to...
“I think it’s possible to communicate virtue in a way that is ethical,...”
– PA’s Tycho on Advertising
“Fuck the rest of this shit. I want our next President to have managed a guild.”
– Penny Arcade! - The Diplomatic Route
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public...”
– Cyril Connolly (via livejamie)
“i pray for an unassuming mind, a forgiving attitude, a loving heart. i do not...”
– Jolene
“I think this is why so much of the work that comes from large companies is so...”
– Jonathan Harris (via christmasgorilla)
total agreement. i spoke with him once after a lecture about my in-progress undergrad thesis and he gave me one piece of spectacular advice that i will never forget (but will paraphrase):
don’t get too wrapped up in the technicality of what you’re doing. if...
“ok now I regret not having a respawn function”
– Muhammad, after the first kill in his multiplayer game prototype. :P
Good Times
Today I got to write a script to help my mom get something tedious done quickly. Yay for getting to use coding skillz. :D