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"Believe in yourself, eat all your school, stay in milk, drink your teeth, don't do sleep, and get 8 hours of drugs." http://is.gd/sjtU

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rt @dansdata everything's better with CHEESE! http://www.viruscomix.com/page470.html

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the internet has revolutionized the clever t-shirt industry http://is.gd/sh2g

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via @kevindente the Time Traveler Essentials T http://is.gd/rDxP

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caveman games (nes) http://is.gd/sc2T

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the ultimate video game experience: Ghetto Golf! http://is.gd/sbiZ

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I've had good luck buying refurb video cards and netbooks, but one thing I will *never* buy refurb? Xbox 360. That's crazy talk, man.

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@codinghorror
I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to f-in amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how?

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I personally find the "make all comment text look like a cartoon bubble" design sort of obnoxious. I AM NOT A COMIC BOOK CHARACTER, NKAY?

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@codinghorror
rt @betsyphd Rickrolling made it into NYT crossword. "Widespread internet prank involving a bait-and-switch link to a music video."

Jeff Atwood
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I have officially lost all track of time. weekday, weekend, day, night.. it's all the same to me.

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@codinghorror
rt @dansdata "You have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that they are each worth a billion dollars." http://bit.ly/vNCZ3

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If there is a programmers' middle east, it is surely Tabs vs Spaces http://tinyurl.com/2az9zn

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Biz Stone is a man who knows how to use Twitter WELL http://twitter.com/biz?page=154

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oh internets, I've fallen in love with you all over again

Jeff Atwood
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"Also, occasionally he would just drop by, giving me a surprise back-rub and THEN lurk behind me, watching what I'm doing."

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"I worked [..] for a man who was a pretty dead on 50/50 mix of Michael Scott from The Office and Buster from Arrested Development."

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
enjoying the "worst working condition" threads tremendously here http://is.gd/s7dn and here http://is.gd/s7dt

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
so that's how sumo wrestling really works -- http://tinyurl.com/2bcq57

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"16 decimal places is a lot. Hardly any measured quantity is known to anywhere near that much precision." http://is.gd/s6cc

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I'm with George Carlin: I don't *get* golf.

Jeff Atwood
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"Switching to a restaurant without alcohol would not be financially viable, he said." apparently getting wasted is big biz..

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
is it just me or does the flash/silverlight crossdomain.xml seem like a really bad idea, implemented poorly?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
'Intel says it demonstrated a "greater than 10x" reduction in [Moorestown] idle power draw compared to a current Atom [netbook] platform.'

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Jeff Atwood
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I swear there are 10 ways to write any given SQL query, but only 1 of them performs well.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"my submission included cute animals, Chuck Norris, OSS, bacon, Ron Paul, recession, FAIL, cynicism, Apple, and a Narwhal" http://is.gd/rF4g

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@codinghorror
it's a lot cooler if you stop thinking of it as "having a baby" and start thinking of it as "launching a human rocket ship into the future"

Jeff Atwood
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Granted badge 'Stellar Question' to user 40516 'Princess'

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
rt @jamuraa #1 candidate for google's url shortening service: Google maps links. Those things are like 500 chars long

Jeff Atwood
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meh, souls are overrated anyways http://is.gd/rSXy

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
never design what you can steal, craigslist edition -- http://tinyurl.com/c3rd6s

Jeff Atwood
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from email: "I learned from [blogs and stack overflow] more than on my university :)."

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I don't think we can turn off code-behind until we have a templating engine that doesn't suck total ass in ASP.NET. Need Spark..

Jeff Atwood
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code-behind off by default in ASP.NET MVC is kind of a dick move, but it is a perfect example of Training Your Users http://is.gd/rUsG

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Google = Wal*Mart http://tinyurl.com/d6e29d

Jeff Atwood
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close range 2: chainsaw dawn http://tinyurl.com/d3qozl

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rt @betsyphd Googling pacifiers, I fell into a Wikipedia wormhole and ended up reading about Adult Baby fetishes. Wish I could unlearn that.

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1782^12 + 1841^12 = 1922^12

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I don't understand some programmers' obsession with The Weed http://is.gd/rz4j

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
babies are like crack cocaine to old people

Jeff Atwood
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VPs have what my brother Mike refers to as "Shit's Easy Syndrome"

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TUNNELS OF DOOOM http://is.gd/rRm7

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ah, I see, _why linked to Stack Overflow here http://help.shoooes.net/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I feel a midlife crisis coming on

Jeff Atwood
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I just spent six months in a leaky boat http://is.gd/rKBa

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
we will update stack overflow to ASP.NET MVC release on Friday -- been a long time coming.

Jeff Atwood
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"the _why pointed users of Shoes to stackoverflow for support questions" (?)

Jeff Atwood
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having a newborn is sort of like this, but imagine it going on for hours: http://tinyurl.com/6lyhyp

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"On the hottest day, more than 4,000 gray-headed flying foxes dropped dead out of trees" http://is.gd/rxuf

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rt @mattcutts http://bit.ly/ZQ9DP Free, unlimited IP address geolocation. 1.4M records in a MySQL database.

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the power of lard http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/lard.html

Jeff Atwood
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trying to figure out how much time I spend parenting stackoverflow vs. coding stackoverflow

Jeff Atwood
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just discovered old canned good in the cupboard that exploded with blackish ichor. That.. is f'ing disgusting

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rt @mattcutts the all-in-one card stamp. http://bit.ly/dBhN2

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serverfault.com logo winner: http://99designs.com/contests/20088/entries/184 (yes, the font and layout will be normalized with so logo)

Jeff Atwood
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Whenever I see the name "Aziz", I always think "Aziz! Light!". I'm such a total dork.

Jeff Atwood
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on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. http://is.gd/gNvn

Jeff Atwood
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Lil' Etch-A-Sketch http://www.exedamobile.com/web/index.php

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Chasing Ghosts arcade documentary. Screening in LA on Sun, Apr 26. http://is.gd/rzIY

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I can't believe Sir-Mix-A-Lot sold out the booty like that http://tinyurl.com/d4lfg4

Jeff Atwood
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He generally referred to the RSX fork list as the "fork queue".

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
why haven't I built my dream home yet? @wilshipley get on it. http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/3661/bongosdreamhouse.png

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The only way to "improve" Swoopo is to nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

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"I am an investor in Swoopo, we want to improve it so that people understand its business model and don’t walk away with a bad taste"

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99designs.com , where I get to wear out my "rate 1 star" button daily.

Jeff Atwood
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blekko status displays -- cool! http://www.flickr.com/photos/skrenta/3424587345/

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ah, PHP. All the charm and elegance of walking through an open sewer into an abbatoir.

Jeff Atwood
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I have XCache PHP accelerator installed. I *think*..? WordPress win32 perf is so bad all the time, it's hard to tell if it's working. sigh.

Jeff Atwood
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do you find yourself struggling with feelings of loneliness? http://is.gd/3Fry

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"Just think... a generation of children in the third world will learn programming just in order to hack around the anti-porn filters."

Jeff Atwood
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someone on the IIS7 team documented how to get wp-super-cache to actually work on Windows! http://is.gd/rniU

Jeff Atwood
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photoshop disasters: like Where's Waldo for grownups. http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/

Jeff Atwood
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I'm sorry... that you suck so much! http://tinyurl.com/dl37k9

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via @jzy the Pinocchio Paradox http://is.gd/rkZY

Jeff Atwood
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with the rain comes the inevitable hermaphroditic snail orgies on my front lawn. NOT ON MY WATCH, YOU BASTIGES

Jeff Atwood
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remember, unicorns are your friends! Err.. sometimes. http://is.gd/rkgL and http://is.gd/rkgS

Jeff Atwood
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Baby Porcupine gets hiccups, eats banana, robs bank. Just kidding about that last part. http://tinyurl.com/2mwatz

Jeff Atwood
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I think watching a preview of Rock Band DLC song "She's a Hottie" just dropped my IQ by about 10 points. Toby Keith FTL.

Jeff Atwood
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who is Nigel, and why are we always having to make plans for him? http://tinyurl.com/5c3flq

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WordPress: still brutally slow(tm)

Jeff Atwood
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the internet isn't killing newspapers. newspapers are killing newspapers. http://daggle.com/090406-225638.html

Jeff Atwood
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Apple 1 art: WANNNNTTTTTT http://www.20x200.com/art/2009/04/apple-1.html

Jeff Atwood
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Twitter won because it was The Stupidest Thing That Could Possibly Work. Note: I'm not kidding. http://is.gd/jgSJ

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Fool-proof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools."

Jeff Atwood
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dear stack overflow user, you are reinforcing all my negative stereotypes of Indian coders. http://stackoverflow.com/users/78627/ravi

Jeff Atwood
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Oh, Ministry, you're so right -- every day really IS Halloween! http://vimeo.com/3522232

Jeff Atwood
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xkcd vs. linux: fatality! http://blag.xkcd.com/2009/04/03/what-happened-to-my-laptop/

Jeff Atwood
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action figure slow motion punches http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgdyBvHdNKY

Jeff Atwood
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their beauty and their style were kinda smooth after a while http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0&fmt=18

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a visit to ID software, 1993 http://vimeo.com/4022128

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new banking plan: too crazy to fail! http://is.gd/r9Jj

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the best possible live version of the best possible song in the world http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXy0hZDIrmY

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"I think that the asymmetric model better mimics how real attention works…and how it has always worked." DUH! http://is.gd/pyLU

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the recursiveness amuses me http://is.gd/r7Y5

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M. Pryor thinks we should hellban instead of doing timed suspension. I don't think that's healthy on a wiki-type website http://is.gd/r7TE

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I was told by Whitney Houston that Children Are The Future(tm). I no longer believe this to be true.

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Rule #1: don't be a jerk. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/a-day-in-the-penalty-box/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
possibly the most terrifying image on the entire internet http://www.sophiadembling.com/uploaded_images/coney-clown-767159.jpg

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article on "Biz" Stone. Apparently he made up that name for himself? http://is.gd/qZmp