Twitter Rules

At least I assume it does. Blogger is too much of a pain. It takes me at least a minute to post which is too much effort. You should sign up for Twitter too, so that you understand the future of the internet, kids these days, and so forth. You don't have to get updates sent to you constantly, you can just come back and check twitter.com for now.

I plan on twittering fascinating stuff constantly but not too frequently starting right now. Sign up and follow me. I'll follow you back.

Un-compete-with-able

Sorry if you've already seen it but this animated graffiti is the best artistic animation I've seen since that German short film with the rock-people.

Different Sort Of Transcript

Interesting reading the first Joel/CodingHorrorGuy podcast. They assume nobody will listen and they may be right but they have transcripts online, wiki-provided allegedly for the hearing impaired but I'm guessing will mostly be read by people like me annoyed at the slowness of podcasts. (Perhaps like most "accessibility" work? Or maybe it's a charade to make the emotion of the crowd feel better about helping.)

Anyway I like this -

Atwood: Not to get into butt kissing, but I don’t think anything you've ever written has been bad.

Spolsky: Oh wait, I'll find something.

I take that as a personal challenge. Are you kidding?

Atwood: The stuff that you publicize, you take a lot of care in terms of the way you write it. The way I write is very ‘from the hip’. I don't vet my writing like you do. If you look on Paul Graham’s site, you'll see that each article is proof read by the following ten people.

Spolsky: And then some name dropping.

Atwood: Yeah the name dropping.

Interesting with a meta feel because the real virtue of these podcasts as a whole is that they're unedited versions of people who are famous (perhaps neo-Warhol-style) for their edited selves. I'm sure their authors themselves realize this too. Maybe this is like a Freudian slip blown up into a casual topical diversion.

Bad bot

I am hanging around my apartment writing chat bots and then arguing with them. I get annoyed when they don't understand simple concepts like what their name is and then I am mean to them. It's terribly unfair of me since I should know their poor little minds are just like two hash tables and a list. Here's a funny bit of the conversation.

bot: your name is bot

me: no my name is kevin

bot: your name is bot

me: no

bot: today is tuesday

me: yes

bot: bot

me: that's you

bot: bad bot

me: awww

Most of it is even less sensical. Maybe I will stick them online and you can chat with them too, if I can make them sufficiently entertaining before I get bored of them. The classic race against time ;-)