I feel duty-bound to describe,
as best I can through the generation gap,
how a Real Programmer wrote code.
I’ll call him Mel..
Made better if you imagine it being told by Sam Shepard as the cowboy narrator in “The Big Lebowski.”
Not FORTRAN. Not RATFOR. Not, even, assembly language.
May 15th, 2008 § 0 comments § permalink
When Buster met the Sox
May 13th, 2008 § 0 comments § permalink
“Ministry begins its long goodbye”
May 12th, 2008 § 0 comments § permalink
the melancholia of this night with Ministry came from the fact that the 49-year-old Jourgensen, the only constant through the band’s nearly three-decade history, did not use his advertised farewell jaunt to take stock of his many accomplishments and musical evolutions.
- Jim DeRogatis in the Sun-Times on Thursday. Al apparently did not lean on the classics much last weekend.
The Margarita King Approves
May 9th, 2008 § 0 comments § permalink
Electro Selectro
May 5th, 2008 § 0 comments § permalink
One stop for all your late-70s-early-80s technology magazine ad needs. I remember seeing a lot of these ads when they were originally printed and dreaming of the days when I might have, for example, The World’s First Pocket TV. Did any of us dare to dream of the iPod Touch back then? Portable radios were as big as the Lasonic boomboxes are now, but not in the ironic Lasonic bigger-is-better way — they had to be that big to contain all the transistors. Amirite?
Wet cats – a set on Flickr
April 23rd, 2008 § 0 comments § permalink
There are probably more of these, this is just the first one I noticed… oh wait, here’s the motherlode!
Intel Music Videos by Christopher Guest
April 23rd, 2008 § 0 comments § permalink
I would never have clicked these if Intel hadn’t made sure to drop Christoper Guest’s name. That said, “Everything Has Changed” is kind of a catchy little ditty, albeit not exactly “Lick my Love Pump.”
They’re covering over the Diag.
April 15th, 2008 § 0 comments § permalink
Michigan Stadium is under reno, so commencement takes place on the Diag at the end of next week. They’re installing bleachers, video screens, and sound systems, and they’re covering the grass over with these tiles.
A fellow M-Library staffer, John Weise, has been documenting
the action, including the moving of a hill to north campus.
Good luck, Class of 2008 — I bet you’re gonna wish you’d just had it at Rynearson, a perfectly modern stadium with miles of convenient parking.
Or your parents are.
High Voltage compares mobile-phone fighting games
April 15th, 2008 § 0 comments § permalink
I wondered, “How did they cram all the excitement of the arcade game into such a tiny package?” My question was more or less answered when I clicked through the tutorial and saw these ominous words: “PRESS 6 TO ATTACK”
High Voltage Online » Dial-A-Combo: SNK vs. Capcom on your mobile phone
Totalli Knorrli Dude
April 13th, 2008 § 0 comments § permalink
Some companies design their mascots from the get-go to look like a man in a suit. When I was a kid, the Putt-Putt mascot “Buster Ball” was a particularly solid example of this, with arms too short to hold a putter. As Happy Gilmore might suggest, he was too good for his home.
Knorrli, pictured here, is the spokessprite for Knorr soup in Europe. Seems harmless enough, doesn’t he? Imagine running into him in your favorite supermarket.
Heaven help you Switzerlanders if The Laughing Cow ever decides to do a victory lap.
