Luis_de_Camoes

Actually, Chang. His time on the VergeCast was short, but his influence was great.

I miss Chang.

I like this.

Like online comments! Oh wait…

:)

Paw.

Great read, Laura. I’m particularly interested in the statement Keen made in the interview that “You can’t be taught to recognize that the development of your unique personality requires secrecy and mystery….”

I haven’t thought about it enough to know whether I agree with either his premise or his conclusion but they both seem interesting.

The premise is that the development of a unique personality requires secrecy and mystery. Certainly secrecy has been helpful in this matter for many people, although it might not be necessary. On the whole I think I agree with this idea (although I really want to think about it more).

The conclusion that this idea can’t be taught I find less believable. I mean, this interview is, in some sense, teaching me about the value of privacy in developing one’s personality. I do agree that stating that the educational system can/should/will solve the problem is often a cop-out.

Does anyone else feel slimy when business types start talking about “relationships”?

A13’ with a retina display!? You would need a lot more than the GPU rumored to be in this thing to power such a monster! I’ll grant that movies would look great, but portability might suffer.

/s

I don’t have the mentality for 4chan, but I find /b/tards to be the greatest nickname ever applied to denizens of an online space. Second place? Vergeins.

This, in combination with his performance on the show, made my day. Please note that this occurred about 10 minutes after the show had ended.

Mostly, dancing ponies.

Thanks for reading!

Hey, your first sentence stole a period from the second one.

Also, who is pay?

Those are both in the API. I checked:

void lineCatBox (bool pooIsPresent, bool familyMemberIsPresent ) {
if (familyMemberIsPresent) {
makeThemDoIt(coerce,plead,beg);
}
if ( ! familyMemberIsPresent ) {
if (pooIsPresent) {
dumpOutOldPoo(rubberGloves, plasticBag, nosePin);
putDownNewPaper(tryNotToTouchCrustedShit);
pourOutNewGravel(makeSureThatTheBagOpeningIsntTooBig);
}
}

Being a tech writer is my secret-wish-but-likely-will-never-happen-in-the-real-world fantasy.

Thanks for the compliment.

We must be on the same wavelength. I just posted my manifesto on my Twitter non-participation in the Social Media forum. Your reasons seem much more reasonable than mine.

I see what it was that you did there.

Remember that time Paul posted a story on the Internet about how he’s not on the Internet? That was awesome.

Ditto on cropping the car. I love the cat’s expression though. That is so hard to capture.