Monday 5th August, 2019 #
- Punpedia - The Online Encyclopedia of Puns - puns are simultaneously good and bad at the same time, I'm amazed at how using language in a way that wasn't intended is so comical, of course I had realized this before but there is something about seeing the shear volume of puns on this site that made me realize that my reaction to puns is very strong and almost automatic, like when a doctor hits your knee with a reflex hammer
- Innocence lost - what did you do before the internet? - I'm not sure how I feel about this new fact, that my generation is the last of the people that grew up without the internet, it sort of reminds me of the 1st world war veterans, maybe when we are old we'll get some medals and get to attend parades, the floats will actually float in he air like hover boards
- The Congos - Don't Blame On I (Black Ark, Jamaica) (1977) - This tune was randomly selected by my ipod shuffle feature
- How to check the character encoding of a string in bash - the reason I had to use this was because I encountered a weird bug where two different strings that looked the exact same were being treated completely differently by the shell - I had copied and pasted them from two different web pages that used different character encodings, it was so weird that I made some quicktime screen recordings of me figuring it out - what are the chances of that happening today? pretty close to zero - now do you believe in the unseen?
- Saudi Arabia Says Women Can Travel Without Male Guardians - The timing of this is spectacular given my previous post, and also because today I opted for a falafel sandwich for lunch, which in my mind is quite arabic, so it feels a bit like a celebration - I've been to Saudi Arabia and it was a very pleasant place, with a unique identity, but I definitely had a feeling that women were treated quite differently, so I think this is a really great development