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May 23
slaughterhouse90210:

“He was one of those people who stared at you with a meaningful smile on their face, as if he was somehow intellectually and spiritually superior, when the fact was he was simply socially inept.”—Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

slaughterhouse90210:

“He was one of those people who stared at you with a meaningful smile on their face, as if he was somehow intellectually and spiritually superior, when the fact was he was simply socially inept.”
—Kate Atkinson, Life After Life


May 21
“Old age. It’s the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don’t look forward to being cured of.”

Mr. Bernstein, Citizen Kane Quotes on IMDB

(via Dave Winer)



May 20
“We spend most of our lives convinced we’re the protagonist of the story, but we rarely realize that we’re just supporting characters in everybody else’s story. Nobody thinks about you as much as you do.” Todd VanDerWerff “Man with A Plan” Mad Men recap

May 17
“The show, always so adroit about the ways that people try to distract themselves from how their lives have ended up in a workplace none of them would have dreamed of turning into a career, grew from inauspicious beginnings as a remake of a British show into one of television’s very greatest series about the twin pulls of the allure of contentment and the desire for fulfillment” Todd VanDerWerff, How The Office became one of the greatest television series about the American dream

May 16
“There are a few obvious reasons for hops’ status as the darling of craft brewers. Hops’ strong flavors present a stark contrast to watered-down horse piss, which is how I believe one refers to Bud Light in the common parlance. Maximizing hops is a good way for craft brewers to distinguish their creations from mass-market brands.”

Adrienne So, Against Hoppy Beer

I love a good hoppy beer. However, they can suck when you are at a festival or a tour and it seems like every brewer is pushing their hoppiest beer on you. It can sometimes ruin your mouth for the rest of time.


May 9

pthread_cancel

I was using pthread_cancel for the first time on a project at work yesterday.

I followed along in the man pages and made sure that I made the call to pthread_cleanup_push to set the cleanup handler for the thread cancelation event. I then went to compile and got strange errors about all the functions after the pthread_cleanup_push having invalid storage types.

I banged my head on this a bit thinking I made a mistake somewhere. I then took a look at pthreads.h and saw that pthread_cleanup_push was a macro and it had an unclosed curly brace in it. Thinking this odd, I then googled some more and came across this page on QNX’s website about pthread_cleanup_push and noticed in the sample that there was also a pthread_cleanup_pop you have to use at the end of the thread’s main function.

Looking back at pthreads.h, I noticed that pthread_cleanup_pop contained the closing curly brace. I don’t know why I thought it was ok to push something without also doing a pop on it, but I’m not always the sharpest crayon in the box.

Once I added the pthread_cleanup_pop at the end of my thread logic I was able to build without an issue.


May 3
“Their plan up in smoke, the producers selected Bob Odenkirk as Michael. When they presented the pilot cast to network executives, Mr. Odenkirk was still in the role. But an NBC insider told Mr. Daniels privately that it was likely that Mr. Carell would become available again once the public saw “Come to Papa.” (It was canceled after four episodes.)”

One Last Cringe for ‘The Office’ Finale

Bob Odenkirk as Michael Scott? That would have made for an interesting show. Odenkirk did show up again in Season 9 as a Michael Scott doppelgänger so you got to see a bit of what it would have been like. However, Odenkirk was problably playing Micheal Scott as played by Steve Carell.

I wonder what Michael Scott would have ended up like if Odenkirk had a chance to put his fingerprints on the role?


May 2

This song really gets me pumped up.

This whole album is great.


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