Category Archives: Puns

BoF II: Some one-liners from 2014

(Along with some selected* comments.)

“Chaotic Justified. That’s my alignment. -S”
J: “Do you tab indent every third line?”
Me: “It’s more that I tab indent a number of spaces equal to the strange attractor?”

“Church bells: A peal to authority.”
Me: “Perhaps more specifically: ‘Church Bell Arguments’.”
Me: “http://mzonline.com/bin/view/Python/ChurchBellsSketch/”

Almost a Koan:
“Is Evening Performance when you balance something on top of an evening?”
M: “or light the evening on fire and spin it around”
K: “Every response merely encourages him!”

“New idea: Name one of the rooms in your home ‘Metonymy’.”
S: “That’s where we’ll store the literary theory!”
K: “Based on the amount of my mortgage that I’ve paid off, I figure that I own whichever room of my house that I am currently occupying.”
K: “I get metonymy and synechdoche mixed up.”
L: “The only example I can remember from highschool english re: metonymy is breadwinner. Does the aforementioned room provide earnings and sustenance for the rest of the domicile?”

“Sometimes unceasing horrible noise is its own reward.”
J: “That would explain your presence in bands in high school. Har har.”

*Generally from those who were playing along. If you have issues with my editing, tell me! 😀

ClockFire!

It all started as a joke on The Daily Show, but like the most unfortunate of jokes, like Scientology and fluorescent bulb light-saber battles, it had taken on a life of its own.

They say that it would never have come to such prominence if AIs had not taken over the near-infinite number of channels now available. Even 14 billion humans could not compete with 40 Trillion AIs each with their own channel that they could spray fully animated words and pictures into in real time.

Of course, it helped that “ClockFire” was hilarious. In the spirit of Monty Python’s “Agatha Christie” and “Mr. Neville Shunt” sketches, it turns out that there are a surprising number of puns that one can make about concurrency and low-level operating system latency.

Ant, elope, antelope, cantelope

So, we went out to Nuit Blanche last night, and I have to say, it was the best we’re ever been to. Probably the most important part was that S and I treated it like a night out, with no specific places to get to (except for one rogue artist friend of ours), and we didn’t book any specific times to meet anyone specific.

Pics soon!

P.S. This is also a re-test of Simple Facebook Connect, which fb broke silently sometime over the past few months. Hooray.

0th world problems

“Heaven’s out of toilet paper. You have to wipe your butt on a cloud.” -SN

But really, what would a 0th world problem be like? We have First world problems, like your internet not being fast enough, or having to wait 3 hours at the ER for your free non-emergency health care.

For that matter, what is a second world problem?

History repeating itself first as a farce?

-N 😀