Some time next month I plan to have a water bottle “pressed” with a custom logo on it. Part of the logo might contain a quote. I would like it to look great.
What is a beautiful font for printed quotes?
Tag: Fun
Carl Sagan's Apple Pie
I heard this joke a long time ago and somehow it never gets old, especially when the person telling the joke turns things around a bit.
His recipe is a classic; his sense of humor is hard to resist:
(image found via Neven)
Powerball Statistics
Dorodango: Fun Mud Balls
Dorodango is the practice of making shiny mud balls by hand. This started out for kids, and for all of us kids at heart this looks like great fun.
Wikipedia
Web-Japan
magiedubouddha
kyokyo-u
dorodango.com
(via ikarus)
A Letter From M.I.T.
Check out this funny letter from a potential student to MIT.
(via reddit)
What Would You Have Said?
On my last project we had a lot of meetings that included “fluff”. This is not unique, especially in IT. What was different, though, was that every lead developer was expected to perform three-letter-acronym loaded monologues, nearly on a daily basis. On one particular afternoon I felt like I had really gone overboard. While the subject matter gave me little leeway in the speech that I could craft; I still I could barely believe what I had said, and wondered if anyone else felt the same way. I decided to ask one of my friends in the same meeting what he thought, over IM. Here is the conversation that followed:
Me: did you think that was absurd what I said?
Him: sorry, but kind of 🙂
Me: OK
Me: what would you have said?
Him: same thing 😀
Me: (rofl) I KNEW IT
The Fun in Steampunk
the Steampunk genre possess a look of craftsmanship and cobbling. It’s an aesthetic that invites the touch of the human hand and it encourages engagement and foster curiosity and play.
Popular Lisper Doesn't Do TDD; Java Programmer Not Sure How To React
Here is an article about how a Java programmer can’t wrap his mind around the fact that Rich Hickey doesn’t do TDD even though all of said programmer’s friends agree that TDD is the best thing ever.
(via reddit)
Debugging With A Speaker
Here is a good article about debugging using a speaker! 🙂
A Programmer's Cover Letter
If somehow all programmers were to read this article, and follow its advice by aspiring to the gold standard of cover letters (for their company at least), it would be good for all of them, but it would surely create a DOS attack of sorts for the hiring managers!
(via Signal vs. Noise)