August 2008
35 posts
Dear Girl in that Sports Coupe,
It was thrilling revving engines, shifting gears, and dancing my powerful low-riding sports car around your cute, red-coupe on that windy two-lane road. I yearned for a red-light, so that I’d have the chance to pull up next to you and say:
“USE YOUR F****NG BLINKER”
Ladies: it’s like wearing socks in bed. It kills the mood when I can’t imagine you operating a...
“I hate commentless blogs. You’d never put up with that shit in person: “Don’t...”
– Twitter / Charlie O’Donnell (via fred-wilson)
Bingo. What say you, Tumblverse?
"Social Media" Burnout
I’ve developed an allergy to the term “social media”. When I first started exploring the Boston tech-scene, I expected to meet entrepreneurs, web geeks, and developers. Boston did not disappoint!
I was also lucky to expand my network to include marketers, PR professionals, and “social media” mavens. Exceptionally smart, tech-savvy people.
However, the term...
Kevin: What are you doing tonight?
Aaron: Well... I'm going to go home, finish reading a book that is trying to persuade me that God doesn't exist, and attempt to remain happy.
Kevin: Fun!
Static vs. Dynamic (brief follow-up rant)
This isn’t an “either or” choice in my book. I feel that all too frequently, people treat both options as “equally valid” and move forward with whatever they are familiar with. The argument for dynamic typing holds as much authority and merit as creationism, and unfortunately, coders & academics spend far too much time humoring it.
Programming languages are UI,...
Argh, PHP
marco:
I love dynamic typing, but…
$a = "look I'm just a string";
$b = 0;
if ($a == $b) { return "come on, really?"; }
This has caused two separate bugs of mine this afternoon, both of which took way too long to find.
“I love dynamic typing, but…”
But, any time it strays from static-typing you are unhappy?
The only power dynamic typing grants you, is the power to write...
Lemons Like Apples - The Magic Fruit
Last night, I ate a lemon like an apple, then a lime. Then I drank tobasco sauce, and washed it all down with Guinness (my least favorite beer)
This was enabled by “The Magic Fruit”, which arrived yesterday via UPS.
Eating this berry coats your tongue with a substance that converts sour tastes to sweet. It has interesting effects… enabling super-human feats like eating a whole...
RE: Books? No more!
sqpeg:
betterthancupcakes:
until:
aaronwhite:
When the next revision of the Kindle launches, we are no longer buying physical books. We will try to go 100% digital for a year, and see how it suits us.
i would try this… but i really just like the physical feel of a book or magazine or something not digital.
Sara and I talk about this a lot. LOVE the Kindle, but there’s nothing like...
Books? No more!
I just moved to a killer apartment in Brookline, MA. (I’ll post photos here soon, I’m in love with the place!)
The most cumbersome aspect of moving?
Books.
I’m a fan of reading (well, anything other than fiction. Personality ‘quirk’, I don’t have time for written fiction).
Books are heavy, cumbersome, far too numerous, and yet far too valuable to throw away....
From the era when Emo was emo, comes “The...
Two million people will be receiving a text...
langer:
And an angel will die every time someone blogs about it earnestly believing they’re telling us something we don’t already know.
I killed a moth because it bothered me while I read.
Did I end a life or a chemical reaction?
Muxtape's spending real cause of music site's... →
This is very interesting, and plausible. S3 is cheap but not free. If their bandwidth costs exceeded $30k/mo, against a $100k investment, it’d be no surprise they’d have to shut down. In a weird twist, if this is the case, I’d be appalled if Muxtape was scapegoating the RIAA.
WatchShe’s not Real. (via @bpw)
Wow. Ractors are near!
Games Without Frontiers: Fun Way to Lose Weight:... →
(via Andrew Chen’s tweet).
“Game designers ought to put their skills to use in the real world by reshaping dull, everyday activities into fun challenges. Why not a game that gives you points for walking your dog or jogging?”
I love the comparison of Weight Watchers to an MMORPG. This reminds me of Erik Bethke’s slide deck “MMO Goal Structures as a Panacea”...
Ooh
saramcpherson:
If you were to spell out numbers, you wouldn’t find the letter A until you got to one thousand.
One-hundred-and-one? ;-)
Rock the Defaults
I rarely, and only after soul-wrenching turmoil, change the default settings on installed software. Further, I use pre-installed or native applications with extreme prejudice. I rock Safari, Mail, iChat, all in default mode, and love every second of it. My life is in iCal & Address book. I’m not exactly sure what terminal shell I use, but I guarantee you it’s the default one....
Muxtape Shutdown (temporarily?) →
There once was a lightning rod…. and then came the storm. I do hope Muxtape can reach an agreement with the RIAA, since it is a fine service. Unfortunately, I have low expectations.
Weddings 2.0
matt: hey
matt: weddings usually happen on sundays right?
aaron: do they?
aaron: not necessarily no
aaron: i've been to more Saturday ones
aaron: easier for people to travel
matt: because someone on my facebook feed just set their status to married and i was really hoping they didn't do it from the altar.
aaron: you need to make it official
aaron: in the eyes of god
aaron: in the eyes of the state
aaron: and in the eyes of the internet
matt: and mark zuckerberg
aaron: by the power of MZ
matt: i now pronounce your status: married. you may poke the bride.
Oktapodi →
via conduit
Awesome animated short!
Braid, and the Rebirth of Gaming.
Video gaming is in the middle of a renaissance right now.
Karaoke Revolutions & Rock Band have wide, and immediate appeal. Dance Dance Revolution and Wii-Fit bring your whole body into the entertainment experience. Portal has brought a wild new perspective to the chronically stale 3D, First Person Shooter.
Today, I’ve been playing “Braid”, which is one part side-scroller,...
Malwebolence - The World of Web Trolling -... →
