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Almost alive

March 5, 2016 · 💀 exanimate

For the first time in nearly a week, I am wearing pants that are not pajamas.

Drafted into foreign wars

December 18, 2015

Nintendo just added Cloud to Smash Bros! Cloud vs. Ryu, for the first time! In a game published by neither Capcom nor Square. #omnisladoken

They're not wrong

November 14, 2015

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method

You and me both, buddy

October 24, 2015

Teddy: “Dada, is the whole world happy? I just want the whole world to be happy!”

What a dick

October 18, 2015

Country music lyrical gem of the day: “The Lord made me hard to handle…. and I’ve still got a lot of leavin’ left to do!” Endearing.

Behold!

October 8, 2015

The LOCI server room is so beautiful now!

To infinity, and beyond

September 15, 2015

Me: “Teddy, where are your shoes?”
Teddy: “I have to have bare feet in public because I’m strong enough, and I’m Buzz Lightyear.”

Empathic defenestration

September 12, 2015

Me: “Teddy, why do you throw things out the window?”
Teddy: “Because I’m sensitive. Because I’m a man.”

Global minimum

August 27, 2015

My work inbox is empty for the first time in over two years. Quick! No one send any email ever again!

Super duper hero

August 16, 2015

Emily: “Dada! I made up a superhero called Bone Man. He looks like a skeleton but his skin is invisible. That’s why they call him Bone Man. When he punches bad guys it really hurts them because his bones are made of cement!”

Royal scavenger hunt

August 6, 2015

“It is the glory of God to hide things but the glory of kings to investigate them.” —Proverbs 25:2

Keen skeptical instincts

June 28, 2015

Me: “Emily, you had a chocolate breakfast, so you will grow up to be a chocolate man.”
Emily: “Chocolate mans don’t exist, Dada.”

Giant steps are what you take

April 22, 2015

Me: “Emily wanna walk on the ceiling?”
Emily: “No.”
Me: “Emily wanna walk on the moon?”
Emily: “NOOO! We’d die on the moon. We’d need to fly a spaceship to the moon. And we don’t have a spaceship.”

Of course! What was I thinking??

Gamifying futility

March 10, 2015

SO: “You’ve earned the ‘Tenacious’ badge (Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total).” Next up: ‘Ineffectual’+’Negligible’!

T-minus-20

March 5, 2015

Anna: Teddy, can you count to 20?
Teddy: 20, 4, 3, 2, 1!

An ailing smithy

February 10, 2015

SourceForge is down—8th time in 3 months. Ideal solution: all projects move SF→GitHub. Stopgap solution: boycott all SF-hosted projects.

A valid concern

January 21, 2015

My next T-shirt: “I’m really worried about the future.”

Technological tribulation III

January 18, 2015

for f in lots*of*files; do test is_important $f && echo ==> $f is a critical file; done # ALWAYS QUOTE YOUR ECHOES #fml

The mightiest text editor

September 17, 2014

You want to be good at vim? Run vimtutor from the CLI! 15 minutes. Then read about vim macros. Congratulations, now you are awesome.

Adorable egocentrism

August 17, 2014

Emily: “Dada, I want to tell you something. I’m stronger than Teddy, and Mama is stronger than me, and you are stronger than Mama.”
Me: “Therefore, who is stronger, me or Teddy?”
Emily: “I am!”