Dave Duchene

"That was the worst part, to have to be serious about life,” said Sartre. “The crabs stayed with me..."

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:05:20 -0800

““That was the worst part, to have to be serious about life,” said Sartre. “The crabs stayed with me until the day I simply decided that they bored me and I wouldn’t pay attention to them.” By then it was the 1940s, France was occupied and Sartre had other things to worry about.”

- Mescaline left Jean-Paul Sartre in the grip of lobster madness - Times Online

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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:13:38 -0800

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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:18:13 -0800

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"There’s no ideological reason behind what I am doing. I am not an anarchist, survivalist,..."

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:10:45 -0800

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There’s no ideological reason behind what I am doing. I am not an anarchist, survivalist, hippie, or whatever label is usually associated with people aiming for self-sufficiency. If you met me, you would never suspect I was living like this. I keep a middle class facade. I am just a very, very low maintenance guy who grew up tired by the rat race. I find much easier and satisfying to live this way.

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I produce my own food and even my own meat. I have chickens giving me eggs, and rabbits giving me meat. I cultivate my own vegetables. I dry both vegetables and meat. I would say that I am 90% self sufficient food-wise. Anyone could live like this, if s/he wanted. It’s mostly about state of mind first, and skills second.

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- IAMA guy who dropped out from the rat race. Didn’t have a job in about 5 years, and yet I keep a middle class facade. I am 90% self sufficient food-wise and energy-wise. Ask me anything. : IAmA

"There’re a lot, and they range from the quotidian (Fuck you) to the particular (You will die alone..."

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:58:03 -0800

“There’re a lot, and they range from the quotidian (Fuck you) to the particular (You will die alone and poorly dressed) to the classical (Life is nasty, brutish, and short). You’ll never get two of the same in any given box of ten. Furthermore, our Misfortunes will be changing frequently, according to our whimsy.”

- Cookie Misfortune - Frequently Asked Questions

claytoncubitt: Unknown contemporary cartoon update of the...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:52:54 -0800

claytoncubitt:

Unknown contemporary cartoon update of the 1911 ‘Pyramid Of Capitalist System’ (via Royal Constantine)

If anybody knows who the artist is, let me know, Google and TinEye only turn up uncredited copies. Every time you post an uncredited copy of an artist’s work, a kitten dies.

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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:28:20 -0800

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"It’s the oddest of arms races: Google trying to prevent some customers from giving it money, and the..."

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:47:07 -0800

“It’s the oddest of arms races: Google trying to prevent some customers from giving it money, and the customers trying as hard as possible to make sure they can keep paying Google.”

- Google Does Non-Evil Thing: Bans White Teeth, Flat Stomachs | The Big Money

"Starting in 1981, Mischel sent out a questionnaire to all the reachable parents, teachers, and..."

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:03:03 -0800

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Starting in 1981, Mischel sent out a questionnaire to all the reachable parents, teachers, and academic advisers of the six hundred and fifty-three subjects who had participated in the marshmallow task, who were by then in high school. He asked about every trait he could think of, from their capacity to plan and think ahead to their ability to “cope well with problems” and get along with their peers. He also requested their S.A.T. scores.

Once Mischel began analyzing the results, he noticed that low delayers, the children who rang the bell quickly, seemed more likely to have behavioral problems, both in school and at home. They got lower S.A.T. scores. They struggled in stressful situations, often had trouble paying attention, and found it difficult to maintain friendships. The child who could wait fifteen minutes had an S.A.T. score that was, on average, two hundred and ten points higher than that of the kid who could wait only thirty seconds.

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- The secret of self-control : The New Yorker

"Facebook and other social networking sites DO sell access to those who are able to pay. Friends of..."

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:33:40 -0800

“Facebook and other social networking sites DO sell access to those who are able to pay. Friends of mine in recruiting agencies routinely use their blanket access to investigate potential employees, and they have absolute access to their accounts, including areas normally marked private. Facebook, and others, are *not* free, they make their money with services that are not visible to their common users. And there is nothing in thier TOS that makes this against the rules.”

- Creepy insurance company pulls coverage due to Facebook pics

"Palin — and there’s just no way to deny this — is a supremely gifted politician. She has staked out,..."

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:30:12 -0800

“Palin — and there’s just no way to deny this — is a supremely gifted politician. She has staked out, as her own personal political turf, the entire landscape of incoherent white American resentment. In this area she leaves even Rush Limbaugh in the dust.”

- Matt Taibbi - Taibblog – Sarah Palin, WWE Star - True/Slant

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Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:01:06 -0800

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"On the positive side, being a D&D player has made me understand the importance of respect in..."

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:29:19 -0800

“On the positive side, being a D&D player has made me understand the importance of respect in relationships, even about the little things. If my partner has disdain for my hobbies, things aren’t going to last. There’s very little dignity in rolling dice and slaying dragons, but it’s what I like to do. So when someone I like mentions that they scrapbook, I try to respect that. And not snicker. Too much.”

- Sex Advice From Dungeons & Dragons Players | Nerve Advice

"What drew all these people? Some of them were lured by the $5,000 bounty. Others were intrigued by..."

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:00:19 -0800

“What drew all these people? Some of them were lured by the $5,000 bounty. Others were intrigued by the technical challenges of online tracking or the thrill of stakeouts. Some felt that a public dare needed to be answered. For many, Ratliff’s flight evoked their own fleeting thoughts of starting over. “It was an adventure,” says Matty Gilreath, a grant manager at UC San Francisco, referring to the dozens of hours he spent on the pursuit. “I’m grateful for my career. But there are other things I’d like to do, and this brought up a lot of issues about reinventing yourself.””

- Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened | Vanish | Wired.com

"the comparison between MF & RP is brilz. As R Pattz speaks more about being objectified, he..."

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:42:04 -0800

“the comparison between MF & RP is brilz. As R Pattz speaks more about being objectified, he grows more endearing. M Fox becomes increasingly “ungrateful.””

- Tiger Beatdown › The Edward Cullen Underpants Conundrum

"Because Edward Cullen is porn. Weird, pre-sexual, socially conservative, deeply repressed and..."

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:39:56 -0800

“Because Edward Cullen is porn. Weird, pre-sexual, socially conservative, deeply repressed and fucked-up porn, but in a world where ladies’ sexy feelings are fenced in with shame and warnings of danger from Day 1, is it any wonder that porn which consistently ties sex to death and fear and the urgent need for repression is selling to the girls? I mean, consider: Edward Cullen has no characteristics, as a person, other than wanting to “protect” Bella and being beautiful and gorgeous and perfect all the time. (And also an insufferable asshole, but that seems more like a mistake than a purposeful effort to give him a personality.) He has no goals in life other than being with Bella. He is over a hundred years old, and he’s never had sex with another person. He’s never wanted to have sex with another person. There is not and will never be a person or a thing or an event that is more important to him than (eventually) having sex with Bella. He is an object designed for the gratification of female desire. He’s the most ridiculous person who’s so amazing at everything, and he’s so beautiful you creamed yourself. And that’s it. And we’re used to dudes writing ladies this way, we’re even used to dudes writing ladies this way and passing it off as “literature,” but the idea of a female author writing a male character in this way, for the pleasure of other ladies, is profoundly disconcerting. Even to me! Because it’s backwards.”

- Tiger Beatdown › The Edward Cullen Underpants Conundrum

a bit cross

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:36:05 -0800

a bit cross

"As a result of their process, the App Store is full of half-baked applications. I make a new version..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:36:56 -0800

“As a result of their process, the App Store is full of half-baked applications. I make a new version almost every day that I release to beta users. The version on the App Store feels old and crappy. I’m sure that a lot of developers feel this way: One emotion is “I’m not really proud about what’s in the App Store”, and it’s combined with the emotion “Really, it’s Apple’s fault.””

- Apple’s Mistake

"Instead, he brought up a source file and pointed to this line: static char..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:06:42 -0800

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Instead, he brought up a source file and pointed to this line:

static char buffer[1024*1024*2];

“See this?” he said. And then deleted it with a single keystroke. Done! He probably saw the horror in my eyes, so he explained to me that he had put aside those two megabytes of memory early in the development cycle. He knew from experience that it was always impossible to cut content down to memory budgets, and that many projects had come close to failing because of it. So now, as a regular practice, he always put aside a nice block of memory to free up when it’s really needed.

He walked out of the office and announced he had reduced the memory footprint to within budget constraints — he was toasted as the hero of the project.

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- Gamasutra - Features - Dirty Coding Tricks

heffer pitcher - a modern, unique, & fun contemporary...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:27:18 -0800

heffer pitcher - a modern, unique, & fun contemporary pitcher from - chiasso