The choice of words is awesome:
A burglary suspect had the opportunity to visit a local hospital after meeting a Marine whose parents’ home he attempted to burglarize Friday.
The opportunity to visit a local hospital… after meeting a Marine. ha ha ha ha. 🙂
Apparently the police report was pretty funny too, saying:
Pohle [the Marine] was said to have “escorted Schwanke to the ground.”
Escorted. Ha!
Failure of the victim selection process.
I have found my new workout program. 🙂
Jim Wendler, take note of this omission from how to build a massive yoke.
… and sales of guns, along with TEOTWAWKI-type supplies are going to skyrocket, starting today.
Gir said it best:
Happy Programmer’s Day to my fellow programmers!
Oh wait… you mean it was yesterday? Ah that’s right… leap year. So that means this is an “off-by-one” error. How appropriate. 🙂
Are you a Mac or iOS programmer? Do you write code in Objective-C?
Do you know who Ayn Rand is?
If you like both, there’s now the perfect programming language for you: Objectivist-C!
Objectivist-C was invented by Russian-American programmer Ope Rand. Based on the principle of rational self-interest, Objectivist-C was influenced by Aristotle’s laws of logic and Smalltalk. In an unorthodox move, Rand first wrote about the principles of Objectivist-C in bestselling novels, and only later set them down in non-fiction.
You can read all about it here. 🙂 (h/t Ed)
I think my favorite is:
In Objectivist-C, software engineers have eliminated the need for object-oriented principles like Dependency Inversion, Acyclic Dependencies, and Stable Dependencies. Instead, they strictly adhere to one simple principle: No Dependencies.
Heh. 🙂
With iOS 5 came Emoji. Emoji is a Japanese term for the picture characters or emoticons used in Japanese messages. Yes, it’s emoticon-like, but there’s a wider range provided. What was significant in iOS 5 (and Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”) is bringing it formally into the OS due to the inclusion of Emoji in the Unicode 6.0 standard.
I discovered how to enable Emoji on my iPhone, I showed Wife and Daughter, and texting hasn’t been the same since. You can also get it on Lion.
The rest of this article might not make sense if you’re viewing it on a computer that can’t show Emoji.
Of course, the most amusing Emoji character is Unicode Character U+1F4A9, ‘PILE OF POO’. 💩 <– That little guy.
I’m not sure how he looks on other systems, but here on Apple-based OS’s, it’s not just a pile of poo, but it’s a pile of poo with a happy face. The Poo Man.
First, the artwork is amusing. Second, you have to realize there was an explicit decision made to include a character in the Unicode Standard that represented a pile of poo. Why? There was debate to include poo or not. There were justifications put forth as to why a character that represented a turd was important to put in there, and someone likely argued against its inclusion and put forth reasons for not including it in the standard. Then there were discussions as to what to name it. It’s not a lump, a mound, a group… it’s a pile. It’s not a turd, a shit, dung, no, it’s poo. This is now formalized: pile of poo. Imagine a group of people in suits sitting around a table debating all of these details. Isn’t technology wonderful? 🙂
The amusement was fine, but then I read on JWZ’s blog a little more about the pile of poo. Specifically, I saw the guys at Panic talking about the first Emoji domain: http://💩.la
Yes, Poopla. The guys at Panic have created the most important website in the world. 😉
Alas, the Laos TLD (.la) doesn’t support Emoji registrations any more. However, it seems the territory of Tokelau and their .tk TLD still allows emoji registrations.
And I couldn’t help myself.
I registered: 🔫.tk. That’s the Emoji “Pistol” character (Unicode: U+1F52B (U+D83D U+DD2B), UTF-8: F0 9F 94 AB), dot tk.
With so many Emoji already taken, I was surprised it was still available.But now it’s mine, for all my geeky amusement.
…or it’s just the frosting side of me talking.
I just want to go drive somewhere. It doesn’t matter. I just want to drive.
It’s like a kid a Christmas. You get new toys, you want to play with them. 🙂
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