Pontification without portfolio.
The uncollected thoughts, the commonplace book, and the personally curated Internet of Matthew Wrather, who is the editor of Overthinking It.
Even if, like me, you’re not single, you should be reading this fantastic series of posts about user behavior on okcupid. Here’s a telling bit:
The median 30 year-old man spends as much time messaging teenage girls as he does women his own age.
Wow. That’s not creepy at all. And…
Statistically speaking, a woman’s desirability peaks at 21.
Sheely, you have any sociology you want to throw at this?
2 weeks ago | Tags: dating okcupid statistics sociology
By now, I guess I should be less shocked that in the arts, you often find yourself in the midst of a cabal whose bond is an agreement to ignore one another’s bullshit.
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
After lunch, Ben took a few moments to explain some of the finer points of how the VM image he’s setting up for me will make it easy to safely push changes to the production server while ensuring everything’s properly checked in to git as well as backed up off-site.
He explained it really well — still, some of the python stuff confused me.
Is that a choad at the bottom of this technical drawing?
As I was going through my parents’ audio cassette collection, I discovered an old favorite- “Merry Christmas from The Beach Boys”. However, once I started listening to it, bad/good things started to happen, depending on your optimal ratio of Beach Boys to beach noise.
Politely ignoring the gap between an increasingly sophisticated economy and the capabilities and knowledge of the typical consumer will not make the problem go away.
