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Behind Schedule

Posted on 25 May 2014 by Zack M. Davis

gotta wr8

gotta wr9

it feels like you should be able to spell write with a numeral

but I guess

you can't

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A Short Story

Posted on 21 May 2014 by Zack M. Davis

"Seriously, what kind of asshole writes the phrase conditional on the hypothesis that when the word if would do?"

"Well ..." I said.

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Speculative Etymology III

Posted on 20 May 2014 by Zack M. Davis

kind of disappointed that 401(k) comes from the relevant section of the tax code instead of being short for "$401,000 of free money"

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Sub Specie Aeternitatis

Posted on 11 May 2014 by Zack M. Davis

Contrary to popular belief, it is not the case that all's well that ends well. But it will seem like it, at the end.

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Clarity of Intent

Posted on 3 May 2014 by Zack M. Davis
<bob> and here on line 79---
<bob>         else:
<bob>             return None
<bob> you don't need the else
<bob> Python functions will implicitly return None
<alice> $ python -c "import this" | sed -n 4p
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