Under a sun so hot it makes you cry.
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reddragdivaPaul Graham on great hackers. (Courtesy
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ewx.) "Maybe the people in charge of facilities, not having any
concentration to shatter, have no idea that working in a cubicle feels to a
hacker like having one's brain in a blender. (Whereas Bill, if the rumors
of autism are true, knows all too well.)"The sheep are getting restless. (Courtesy
bluekieran.)
Today is apparently System Administrator Appreciation Day. GIMME PINT.
London appears to have given up on Melbourne weather and gone for Sydney weather: thirtyish, humid and with a temperature inversion holding in a layer of soot. It's been a rotten summer for breathing so far.
Does anyone know of a source of microfibre clothing in the UK or even Europe? Shirts in particular.
Good musical forms all mean "fuck." "Jazz" means "fuck." "Rock'n'roll" means "fuck." "Punk" means "sodomy." "Post-punk" means the cigarette afterwards. "Rap" means talking about it. "Techno" means a machine does it for you.
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Date: 2004-07-30 06:22 am (UTC)>> .sig_archive
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Date: 2004-07-30 07:09 am (UTC)Hmm... more means "wank" where I'm from. Which is strangely appropriate to my mind. (And was a cause of much amusement when, presumably in innocence, someone started "Jazz magazine". Well, I guess they might get a few sales for people who were looking for "jazz mags".)
Good musical forms all mean "fuck."
Counter example: Prog rock... as in "fuck, who put this pretentious self-indulgent shite on."
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Date: 2004-08-02 07:02 am (UTC)I hate to think what "blue-grass" might mean...