“Salty coffee also makes sense in a place where shaved-ice desserts are topped with corn kernels and breads get slathered with sugary frosting and bits of pork.”
—Some Salt with Your Coffee? Taiwan’s Hot Drink - TIME
November 2009
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“I was waiting for a friend near Yurakucho station today. Near the station there is a fruit stand selling all kinds of fruit. As I waited, I made a little observation that got me thinking.
The fruit stand was packed to the gills with fruit, all meticulously stacked and ordered into piles, rows and boxes. One would think that a shop like this does brisk trade given all the human traffic from the station - thousands of people must pass this shop every day. However, in the 10 mins I was standing there, nobody bought any of the neatly ordered and boxed fruit.” — Business Lessons Learned from the Fruit Stand - Yongfook’s posterous
The fruit stand was packed to the gills with fruit, all meticulously stacked and ordered into piles, rows and boxes. One would think that a shop like this does brisk trade given all the human traffic from the station - thousands of people must pass this shop every day. However, in the 10 mins I was standing there, nobody bought any of the neatly ordered and boxed fruit.” — Business Lessons Learned from the Fruit Stand - Yongfook’s posterous
“Let’s apply some logic: the seed can not be very random, otherwise one could just use the seed generator instead of the random generator.”
—Tichy on Hacker News | A common bug in published code
Linux Compose Key | Derek Sivers →
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That’s so bloody clever I never knew it existed.
SENG: Gifted kids at risk: Who's listening? →
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“A Synthesis of Research on Psychological Types of Gifted Adolescents”
Most common personality types are NP on MBTI.
“How late can I get you the revisions and still have it ASAP?”
—How about 2001? (via clientsfromhell)
Lost in translation
I once had a client call me in a panic from their annual holiday in France:
CLIENT: I have an urgent problem…ME: Ok, what’s up and I’ll see if I can try and fix it
CLIENT: Well there’s something up with my site and I need you to fix it immediately. I’ve just gone onto my website from the villa and the whole site is coming up in English not French.
ME: That’s correct, it’s an English website.
CLIENT (at this point very irate) : I know, but I’m in France!!! Shouldn’t it be in French when I log on from France so that French people can read what I do?
Spellbound by Janet Minor
I have a spelling checker;
It came with my PC.
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I cannot sea.
I’ve run this poem threw it;
I’m sure your pleased too no.
It’s letter-perfect in it’s weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.
“16. Don’t Steal Music. Music and other content purchased from the iTunes Store is for personal lawful use only.”
—iTUNES STORE - TERMS AND CONDITIONS
“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.”
—Pete Seeger (via simtan) (via quote-book)
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
—A.A. Milne (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“But in the last year or so, the attitude has shifted dramatically from “no one is using mobile data” to “oh my God, there’s so much demand for mobile data that it’ll destroy the network.”
—Mobile Opportunity: The mobile data apocalypse, and what it means to you
Words Only Clock Widget for Mac OS X Dashboard →
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The Qlocktwo, adapted to JavaScript, and now finally packaged as a widget, a better solution than the Web Clip I was using, which broke with captive hotspot auth..
I’ll try and spend more time with my piano this holidays. Been feeling so deprived of it recently.
“It is very easy to get ridiculously confused about the tenses of time travel, but most things can be resolved by a sufficiently large ego.”
—Terry Pratchett’s The Last Continent
