October 2010
69 posts
How to Learn to Program in 2010 →
This is a response to a friend, Nate Dern, a smart guy who wants to learn to program but doesn’t know where to start. Spoiler alert: I rant for a while and then briefly answer his question at the…
natedern asked: Dear Hardcore Multiplier of Matrices:
I have an embarrassingly basic question for you. I'm starting to study sociology in grad school. I want to study online social media. I'm already learning that computer scientists, who can write programs to collect the data they're interested from social media sites, have pretty much got the market cornered in terms of gathering...
I have an embarrassingly basic question for you. I'm starting to study sociology in grad school. I want to study online social media. I'm already learning that computer scientists, who can write programs to collect the data they're interested from social media sites, have pretty much got the market cornered in terms of gathering...
Zen and the Art of Sitcom →
Chuck Lorre Productions, Vanity Card #306
I have been writing sitcoms for twenty-five years. During this time, I have learned a few things. Practical things. Do’s and don’t’s if you will.
For instance, do hire actors based on talent not looks. Somewhere between take eight and take fifteen, you will be hating both yourself and the gorgeous, but clueless ingenue who got the job...
“This is going to be terrible.”
– Paul Krugman, “Divided We Fail”
“Make the “incentive” for high-income workers the money they keep,...”
– Quiddity, “Illogic”
“A domain name doesn’t win you a market; launching second or fifth or tenth...”
– Marc Hedlund, “Why Wesabe Lost to Mint”
“The anger began when Corey brought up Normal Mailer’s essay “The White Negro,”...”
– Gavin McInnes, Street Carnage (via thenotes)
I don’t know this quote’s context and I don’t care.
“Consider the bladder—with gravity, the stretching of the wall of the bladder due...”
– Reading List: Packing for Mars (Fourmilog: None Dare Call It Reason)
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Today I learned how to multiply two matrices in... →
In case you weren’t sure: YES, THIS IS HARDCORE.
Not even Apple can predict the future →
As soon as Apple announced that a Mac App Store is coming, somebody on macsb lit the following match:
So… what do folks think about the app store? Good? Bad?
That was Wednesday, and the…
An announcement.
kellyqehudson:
good thing. i now have time to google ‘selcouth’ before the show.
chrisreblogs:
fatpenguin:
Adam and Trevor will be hosting
a performance by Fat Penguin
on Saturday, October 23rd
at 10 o’clock in the evening
(tomorrow night)
on the stage of The Creek and The Cave
in a FREE show
to benefit the audience.
If you reblog this and append a suggestion,
Fat Penguin will use...
An announcement.
fatpenguin:
Adam and Trevor will be hosting
a performance by Fat Penguin
on Saturday, October 23rd
at 10 o’clock in the evening
(tomorrow night)
on the stage of The Creek and The Cave
in a FREE show
to benefit the audience.
If you reblog this and append a suggestion,
Fat Penguin will use it inspire our comedy scenes.
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helping all the kids
super puppy
raising all the bids
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puppy has no fear
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puppy of the year
At school today, I saw way more people than I... →
ladyenterprise:
At school today, I saw way more people than I expected to see wearing purple. I live in a very small town in North Carolina, and there are a lot of racists and homophobes.
Today, I saw at least three of our football players and two of the coaches wearing purple from head to toe.
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For those of you who asked, what’s the point of wearing purple? What is it going...
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Tumblr search for "purple" →
I confess: I entered “purple” into the search box because I wondered if any assholes were flipping out because Tumblr changed their Dashboard color without their permission.
Now I’m seven pages in and getting a little bit misty eyed.
Dan Gilbert, No Joke →
brendanmc:
They asked people to read something written in Comic Sans, which they determined to be one of the toughest fonts to read, perhaps because it’s ridiculous. Another group read the same material in easy-to-read Arial. After all that, they tested their comprehension. And, in a shocker, the people who read in Comic Sans retained far more information than those who read in Arial.
...
The Musicians of Bremen
kevhines:
The Brothers Hines did a show this past Friday at Marymount Manhattan College where I made a reference to the Musicians of Bremen and not only did the audience grow silent and confused but Will was even stymied. And he seems to know everything! This followed a class from a few weeks back where I referenced the Musicians of Bremen and got puzzled grunts. Now you might be asking, why...
halphillips asked: In your opinion, approximately what percentage of one's disposable income should one allocate to clothing purchases, on an ongoing basis?
Damn it.
chrisreblogs:
I was trying to delete a tumblr blog that I was never going to use (Flashback Lost… it was going to chronicle my rewatching all of Lost and see how it all fits together with with the final answers… but I honestly have no desire to because… well you know), but instead delete Look At This Fucking Mailbox. Sadness!
I don’t understand. Are you saying you somehow deleted all...
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johnztownsend:
I had this idea for a tv show. The main character is a sex offender moving into a new neighborhood. Each week he goes to the house of a different person on the block. They invite him into their house and he has to tell them he’s a sex offender. But each week the person who invites him in is pretty f’ed up too.
Just think it’d be cool.
I will finance* this.
*Keep in mind...
Watchspolikeluzhate:
vagmagazine:
Vag Magazine Episode 1, “Fumbling Toward Ecstasy”
Vag Magazine founders Sylvie, Fennel, and Bethany lay out their editorial vision for Vag shortly after buying out fashion magazine Gemma with the proceeds from their Etsy shop. Staffers Heavy Flo and Reba are on board, but lone Gemma holdover Meghan is skeptical.
Oh shit, its time to ride the wave…the third...
“You already see the world through an improv lens, take that lens out into the...”
– Becky Drysdale
“These are brutish and unsophisticated and I am sure that the public deserves...”
– Max Gadney, The Rise of The Tower Graphic
I Turn To You, Tumblr
mustanghalle:
Guys, how does one go about copyrighting a script they are writing? I’m assuming you can pay a fee and register it somewhere, so that no one can take your original show or movie idea (because they are so great people will immediately want to steal them, in this scenario). However, my big clumsy fingers aren’t finding it on the Google. Any suggestions?
Copyright is not a verb. You...
The Wrap: Aaron Sorkin Addresses Claims of... →
leilacohanmiccio:
Aaron Sorkin wrote a super interesting defense of the gender politics of The Social Network in the comments of writer Ken Levine’s blog. Though I can see why someone might be offended by the movie’s portrayal of women, I actually got what Sorkin was going for in terms of portraying a misogynist subculture and I thought the movie had some really interesting points about gender...
“There will never be another show or entertainment program as wide-reaching as...”
– John Ortved, “Why ‘The Simpsons’ no longer matters”
your success makes me feel bad about myself
chamberlain:
icanlurn:
curse of the creative type
“What I would say, as far as trying to stay friends with somebody that you have a hard time thinking about what they’re doing against what you’re doing, is focus on them needing a friend. It takes a good friend to stay with you in hard times. It takes a good friend to stay with you in good times. Everybody needs support. Everybody does. If...
“The only one [current cartoon] that I have watched that I think is funny is...”
– Melendy Britt, voice of She-Ra
You Should Be Rewarded For Paying Attention
Last night I played hooky from an improv class for a screening of Get Lamp, a documentary about text adventures, hosted by the filmmaker, Jason Scott. It was pretty great.
During the Q&A, Jason talked about watching some Discovery Channel shows with the sound off, to study how they shot certain things. And it bugged the hell out of him that they kept reusing the same clip of a bear, over and...
