August 2008
“Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson via Jennifer Hawke
Harrison Ford's Less Successful Ad Libs →
Best XKCD ever, and that’s saying something. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: funny, xkcd, starwars
Anybody Can Be Cool →
But… Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: awesome, funny
Providing Different Formats In Merb →
Best explanation I’ve seen yet on how Merb handles responding to different formats. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: merb, formats
What Mighty Mouse Has Learned →
A good set of concrete tips when joining up with a startup. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: startup, advice, work
Is the internet fucking awesome? →
I won’t spoilt the answer for you… Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: funny, internet
Declarative exception-handling in your controllers →
A good overview of Rails 2.x’s controller-based error handling. Love it! Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: rubyonrails, errorhandling
How To Launch Software (Aaron Swartz's Raw... →
A great description of the “GMail Launch” strategy. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: launch, software, socialnetworking, gmail
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The Week After the Burn
“Dude, you know what was last weekend?”
“What?”
“Burning Man. I’ve always wanted to go. Weren’t we going to go this year?”
“Ummm, yeah, but we’ve said that every September since 1995 the week after they burn that thing down. We look at the pictures on the interweb and say we’re going to build an art car that spits fire, looks like the Yellow Submarine and has a real working periscope and...
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Pouring Out What's Left
She died like many people die these days – a tiny shell on a hospital bed in a converted room on the first floor of the house they shared for thirty years. She wasted away slowly over two years – from that first dark spot on the x-ray, through the treatments, the difficult discussions, somber preparations and finally, the talks about who she wanted to speak at the funeral and what flowers she...
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Wine With Dinner
She was more valuable than she knew. She could reach the little blossoms on the bottom that the grown-ups would leave. She followed along behind them with her sack, picking up stray blossoms here and there, often leaving little bloody fingerprints on their perfect white fluff. The foreman wouldn’t give her gloves – they wouldn’t fit even if he did.
She was five. She was my mother.
We’d sit...
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Clarence, Faster Than Sparrows
“I am not like the wind; I am the wind. I am faster than a team of horses, more fleet than a sparrow. I can go anywhere, be anything. I am flight.”
“You’re on a bicycle, Clarence, and you can’t ride that contraption in the mud or anywhere but around the track. And that hat is downright silly. What is that thing supposed to do anyway?”, Thomas wiped the grease off his hands and snickered as he...
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Our (Ficlets) Acceptance Speech
Because ficlets is all about storytelling, I let the community come up with the bulk of this little acceptance speech, but before that, there are some people I have to thank, because without them, there would be no ficlets to write.
First, Kerry Parkins and Bert Arians for letting us do the experiment that became ficlets. Then, the awesome team that actually built the thing: Jason Garber, Ari...
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The Horror of Waking Up
I woke with a start, unable to see and uncomfortable (the not seeing being the more dire of the two). I was confined, a strap across my waist even though I was laying mostly flat. There was a horrible mechanical drone, constant and unwavering. I panicked, unsure of my location, destination or future. That was the first second…
I clumsily sat up and felt my face, and removed the mask. Of...
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The Vampire Poem That Saved My Life
I sat behind her in Chemistry. I had just moved, and was none to happy to be there.
She was quiet, with large round glasses, big blue eyes. when she was thinking about something, she twirled her hair and cocked an eyebrow like Mr. Spock. I liked her immediately. After tests on Fridays, she wrote poetry about vampires, and I drew pictures of dragons. I once found one of her poems on the floor...
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The Beginning
Like Mr. Thoreau, I came here to get away, to live at the edge of nothing and think things through. Life had become too complicated, and I needed to remove the umbilicals and get back to living an analog life for a while.
Everyone thought I was crazy, unplugging and moving to a country where I don’t speak the language (yes, still), and I’m not taking any form of technology more advanced than my...
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A Prayer for the Sleepless
For all those who stare at clocks that move too slow when the lights are off, who brave the buzz of a brain screaming for sleep – a time to file away all the random data collected over the day. For all those whose vacant sunken eyes plead for rest, a chance to take a break from the voices, the to-do’s, the haunting crows of “there’s so much more to do.” No answer comes that shuts them up.
When...
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The Threads
“This is it” he said to himself as he floated above his lifeless body and his family gathered around his bed, “I’m dead. I don’t believe it. What do I do now? Where’s the light I’m supposed to head towards?”
Instead of a light, he started seeing golden threads expand out from his still chest. Each thread connected to a family member, then a thousand more threads sprung from them. He saw even...
A Quick Jaunt Through Merb's Framework Code →
There’s a gem down there at the bottom about how to create dynamic error handlers for Merb… saved me a lot of time! Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: …
The Threads →
“This is it” he said to himself as he floated above his lifeless body and his family gathered around his bed, “I’m dead. I don’t believe it. What do I do now? Where’s the light I’m supposed to head…
Those were the droids →
Nice Star Wars LOL. Saved By: Kevin Lawver | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: starwars lol funny
