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The Right One — Scott McCloud

corprew — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:57:41 +0000

The Right One by Scott McCloud is an interesting piece (and contains mildly nsfw cartoon images.) It’s particularly interesting to me because it’s primarily a story about categories, similarity, and ordering, and I highly recommend reading it. I thought it was astounding, and have played through the comic several times.

I’m not going to into detail about how, because that would kill the awesome, but if you read it, you should get a sense fairly easily.

Logging Funny

corprew — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:21:55 +0000

So, I’ve been doing a lot of research into logging & dispatching recently for one of the volunteer organizations that I’m a lead in. In the course of this, I came across this on http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq73-1.htm

Deck logs are not “Captain’s Logs”

A deck log is not a daily diary written by the ship’s captain. The “captain’s log” was a dramatic device used by the creators of the televison series Star Trek to introduce each episode, and does not exist in the U.S. Navy.

People must have been asking. This is strangely hilarious

hors d’oeuvres funroll loops

corprew — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 01:27:46 +0000

“hors d’oeuvres funroll-loops” is my new favorite meaningless expression. it sounds completely meaningless, but came up today with regards to a technical problems I’m working on. It’s just ludicrously fun to say, although probably not as funny as ‘boss’ or ‘grody.’

Also, on the subject of hilarity, check out these references to auderves in google.

Suprisingly, –funroll-loops isn’t the funniest sounding of the gcc options, –malign-double is. Just in case you’re having deus ex machina problems and need to specify your program has an evil twin.