Adam has set himself up as cook in the Brick (episode 3x07).  He's behind the bar when Maggie wakes up after drinking herself into a stupor the night before.  Joel and Elaine have hooked back up.

Adam proceeds to pick both Fleischman and O'Connell apart, deadly accurately, just because Maggie is looking for a shoulder to cry on.  Adam resents it ( Read more... )

I'm not sure what made me react this way, but I did ( Read more... )

There are a lot of creepy things about the Little Sisters in Bioshock - how undead they seem, how disheveled, and how completely brainwashed they are about their grisly task.

I realized I really hated one subtle thing about the Little Sisters. They're powerful little girls.

There's this awful tyrannical aspect to real little girls. They can be ( Read more... )

According to the Ruby  v1.8.6 code, URI escape uses the following regular expression by default to match escapable characters:
$ ruby
require 'uri'
p "#{ URI::REGEXP::UNSAFE }"
"(?-mix:[^-_.!~*'()a-zA-Z\\d;\\/?:@&=+$,\\[\\]])"
$

In 1.8/uri/common.rb, this is generated by [edited heavily]:
module PATTERN
  # RFC 2396 (URI Generic Syntax)
  # RFC 2732 (IPv6 ( Read more... )

Italicize "major" works, quote "minor" works.  When in doubt, italicize.

Italicize "major" works - collections of other works (magazines, newspapers, books, albums), or anything that has to take more than a man-month to do (films, TV series, epic poems).

Quote "minor" works - pieces of a whole (articles, chapters, songs, episodes), or self-contained ( Read more... )

In Ruby, CGI.escape, URI.escape, and CGI.escapeHTML are three separate things:

• CGI.escape is for arguments passed through CGI only (whether after a '?' in a URL or via POST)
• URI.escape is for data embedded in the main part of a URL
• CGI.escapeHTML is for data in open areas of an HTML document, or for data inside attributes such as an alt="" ( Read more... )

Karl Hyde's song lyrics are pastiches of imagery.  So they can be hard to decipher ( Read more... )

I taught my 5-year-old nephew the Interrupting Cow joke. He loved it. So, he had to try it right away.  His first attempt:

Him: Knock knock.
Me: Who's there?
Him: [chuckling] Interrupting Cow!
Me: [as slowly as possible] Int-er-rupt-ing Cooooooowwwwww who?
[beat]
Him: Um, MOOOO!!! [breaks up hysterically]

[my sister and I exchange a look]

Sometimes you gotta revel in your geekhood.

I'm a Peggle Extreme GrandMaster.  Yes, I finished the game.  I'm writing up some advice for everyone, since I didn't see a lot of advice online on advanced Peggle when I last looked.

Getting 750,000 on One Level

Use the bell-curved level from round 1, definitely. I got it from playing Spooky Ball over and ( Read more... )

Fargo is an anti-noir. It has many noir elements in it, but backwards: suburbia instead of urban; white visual theme instead of black; big open spaces instead of claustrophobic buildings; a flawless waddling pregnant detective instead of a damned chain-smoking male detective; and bumbling incompetent criminals instead of underworld masterminds.

The ( Read more... )