January 2009
3 posts
Shitty day
Went out for a smoke today, saw a guy I work with looking bummed out, slowly poking at his cell phone. Lit my cig, went up to him for some banter. “Hey man, you allright?” “Yeah, all good.” “How’s life?” “Wife’s good.” “How’s wife? How’s life!” “Life’s good too, and wife” Pause. “Can I bum...
“In my experience preemptive fixes are akin to procrastination when there’s...”
– andrewtj
Bricks, Bikes, and Code
Bricks
My dad likes to tell the story of when he worked as a brick-layer. It was a tedious job, the story goes, but he’s a man of patience and precision. He’d carefully line up the bricks, one neatly on top of the other, hour after hour. An extra challenge was to make the edges line up at the ends of the wall. Sometimes he’d have to take off some bricks or change them around...