- Do not by mints or gum in metal or plastic containers if you intend to put them in a bag. They may look cute, but the constant clanking is beyond irritating, especially in the realm of the big, grey cubicles where no one breathes.
- I wasn’t aware of this, but furniture shopping is a lot like buying a car. To put it lightly, it is a very high-stress situation, and that’s not where I like buying things. Ikea is not like that at all, in fact, it’s very close to being the type that I consider perfect for a store. This is why I shop there, and why I continue shopping there. It’s very low stress.
- I used to consider Perl an old-man’s language. Ignoring the fact that it came out the year before I was born, I’ve discovered this summer, that it indeed is. That doesn’t mean that I don’t enjoy it. Its ability to touch and process text quickly is so amazing, I’ll probably be turning to it again in the future. And there’s the fact that I rewrote all of my blog’s backup scripts in it.
- I won’t be trying to reinvent the building-software wheel again. Build systems are very hard to get right, especially when you’re not sure what you need to support. Let’s go shopping; may I suggest SCons?
- (500) Days of summer was a really good movie. There’s a scene with Tom laying in his bed, and outside its raining. There’s those super ugly, low power sodium lights outside, that I usually hate. With the rain and the windows, the light comes through in a great Old Hollywood sort of way. I consider that few seconds one of my favorite scenes in all of my movie-going history.
- I can go to grad-school, and it’s going to be amazing.
Posted by mt2 on August 14th, 2009