adding 300 words
¶ by Rob FrieselRe my own writing: this is kind of vindicating and kind of disheartening:
Author Archives: Rob Friesel
About Rob Friesel
Software engineer by day. Science fiction writer by night. Weekend homebrewer, beer educator at Black Flannel, and Certified Cicerone. Author of The PhantomJS Cookbook and a short story in Please Do Not Remove.the Tao of LOL
¶ by Rob FrieselA friend asked me today: “On IM, when you type ‘haha’, does that imply that you actually laughed?” I answered immediately: no. The “haha” and “hehe” strings imply that you got the joke, that you’re reading and comprehending the humor, that you believe the preceding statement is funny – but it doesn’t necessarily mean that […]
Worldmakers
¶ by Rob FrieselArranged chronologically from 1955 through 2001, Dozois’ anthology Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming, is a tightly-themed collection of science fiction shorts. It’s a good overview of the terraforming subject’s treatment within the genre but the anthology seems to lack any stand-out stories – there are no great masterpieces in here. Which is not to say […]
haiku movie review: Aguirre: The Wrath of God
¶ by Rob Frieseldescend from Andes descend to utter madness wrestle with monkeys Great film. Stunning. Epic. Masterfully shot. Surreal. Insert more superlatives here. However, when your primary film-selection criterion for the evening is “which one is shortest?” – well, this one may leave your jaw unpleasantly unhinged. Bewildering. Will watch again. When I’m more serious about it.
Happy Birthday to H.
¶ by Rob FrieselA day late here but what the hell… Happy birthday, Holden. Above? That’s a mosaic of his one-per-day portraits for the first year. It begins June 22, 2008 and goes through June 22, 2009. We managed to only miss one day through the whole mess, too.
Linkdump for June 23rd
¶ by Rob Friesel5.5. Case study: Dumb Quotes via lepht (at [Dive Into Greasemonkey]) (tagged: webdev javascript regex todo ) Repeat after me: Unicode is not UTF-\d{1,2} via lepht (via reddit.com): short version: Unicode is a standard, and UTF-(8|16|32) are character encodings that support encoding Unicode data into byte strings. (tagged: Unicode text dev essay todo ) Modeling the […]
Eclipse 1
¶ by Rob FrieselEclipse 1 is a good-not-great anthology of speculative (née “science”) fiction and fantasy (rather: “new weird”) short stories edited by Jonathan Strahan. My “good-not-great” may be stemming from my disappointment that there was more “new weird”/fantasy than there was science fiction 1 but there were still quite a few “big wins” in the pile that […]
Linkdump for June 19th
¶ by Rob FrieselFriday Q&A 2009-06-19: Mac OS X Process Memory Statistics at mikeash.com (via DF) — echo: good layman's terms run-down of what's happening inside that silver slap sitting on your lap (tagged: memory hardware essay ) Nearby on Your Phone at Flickr Blog (via DF) — I hate to say it but there goes my last […]
Linkdump for June 17th
¶ by Rob FrieseliPhone 3.0 Software Walkthrough at The iPhone Blog (via DF) — part of the iPhone OS 3.0 round-up (tagged: iphone ) iPhone 3.0 software update Review at Macworld/iPhone Central (via DF) — part of the iPhone OS 3.0 round-up (tagged: iphone ) Instant Expert: Secrets & Features of iPhone OS 3.0 at iLounge (via DF) […]
Linkdump for June 16th
¶ by Rob FrieselPersian Saffron Ice Cream at Al Dente (tagged: food recipe ) hasLayout.net Doesn't look like it's been updated in … a while … but probably worth skimming and/or for to brush up… (tagged: webdev css html IE todo ) US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive at The Telegraph — the […]