Lasers are not just for Styx concerts and killing people in the future, they are also practical everyday tools.
The Hacklab, of which I am a member, is now laser-capable, and I'm not talking about the pointer variety... We're packing 25W of stuff blasting power!
These bad boys normally sell for tens of thousands of dollars but we found ours on craigslist for a cool $500. It was missing the electronics to control it but fortunately there was enough collective evil genius at the lab to rebuild it in about a week.
Behold our unstoppable power!
We will vaporize one country every day until we are payed ONE MILLION DOLLARS. And not those loser countries either, the good ones with disposable income. You're first, Lichtenstein.
The Hacklab, of which I am a member, is now laser-capable, and I'm not talking about the pointer variety... We're packing 25W of stuff blasting power!
These bad boys normally sell for tens of thousands of dollars but we found ours on craigslist for a cool $500. It was missing the electronics to control it but fortunately there was enough collective evil genius at the lab to rebuild it in about a week.
Behold our unstoppable power!
We will vaporize one country every day until we are payed ONE MILLION DOLLARS. And not those loser countries either, the good ones with disposable income. You're first, Lichtenstein.
Yesterday was my last day of youth and today, my first as a legitimate and useful member of society. I turn thirty possessing the vigor of a twenty year old, the wisdom of a forty year old, and the humility of a two year old.
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Here's some lovely art:
That's nice! But so crude. Let's just fix that up a little:
Much better. Oh, you don't agree?
Here's something else amazing:
Yeah, just that thing.
You see, in this new age of casual written communication, people were having trouble expressing emotional context, so they invented new punctuation marks from existing characters. They even managed to make the punctuation marks resemble the physical manifestations of emotions so that their meanings would be implicitly obvious. There are many others.
I find that amazing. If any postmodern artist from the past saw that, they would fucking freak. Humans are awesome <3 <3 <3
However, when my email program finds one of these things, it shows this instead:
My email program does this because it is tasteless and simple minded. I really am embarassed to be seen with it.
If you make an email program, or any of the other things that normally do this, don't do this. You don't replace the word "be" with a picture of a bee. You don't make the word "jump" actually jump around the screen. So don't do this either. Don't fuck with language.
That's nice! But so crude. Let's just fix that up a little:
Much better. Oh, you don't agree?
Here's something else amazing:
Yeah, just that thing.
You see, in this new age of casual written communication, people were having trouble expressing emotional context, so they invented new punctuation marks from existing characters. They even managed to make the punctuation marks resemble the physical manifestations of emotions so that their meanings would be implicitly obvious. There are many others.
I find that amazing. If any postmodern artist from the past saw that, they would fucking freak. Humans are awesome <3 <3 <3
However, when my email program finds one of these things, it shows this instead:
My email program does this because it is tasteless and simple minded. I really am embarassed to be seen with it.
If you make an email program, or any of the other things that normally do this, don't do this. You don't replace the word "be" with a picture of a bee. You don't make the word "jump" actually jump around the screen. So don't do this either. Don't fuck with language.
I have taken a position at Direct Leap where I will be developing the Popvox predictive dialer. Popvox is a Rails + Asterisk application for operating highly efficient outbound call centers. If that sounds spammy, don't worry, we work exclusively with non-profits, mostly political campaigns. Indeed, this is one aspect of the job that made it particularly attractive. We're on track to usher in world peace by 3rd quarter next year.Of course, this changing the world business is a lot of work so you might see less of me than you usually do, which for most of you is already zero so don't worry about a thing. As for the rest of you, let's not think of this as goodbye.. let's think of it as I don't have time for you anymore.
UPDATE: Unemployed. Oh tech industry, you old spitfire.