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I used to have a whiteboard by my desk, and whenever a particularly witty and insightful comment was made I would write it down. Here are some of my favorites:

• Sometimes you just need to write the dang if statement!

  (Wasn't until a few years later that I saw Ken Thompson's quote about brute force)

• Ugly code is ok, as long as its wrapped and hidden in the library modules.

• Once you document a kludge, its no longer a kludge.

• The most dangerous thing to say during a project is, "Wouldn't it be cool if..."

Then of course, some of my favorite quotes, that I actually ascribe to, even to this day:

• The first attempt is always wrong. You must iterate towards the best possible solution, not try to get it on the first try.

  — Matt Bilotti

• A cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It’s harder to read code than to write it.

  — Joel Spolsky .... which leads us to:

• Debugging is twice as hard as writing code. Therefore if you write code as cleverly as possible you are not smart enough to debug it.

  — Brian Kernighan

• Speed of iteration beats quality of iteration.

  — John Boyd ... which leads us to:

• Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

  — Mark Zuckerberg

Duterte: During phone call, Trump praised my drug war as the ‘right way’
Duterte Says Trump Wished His Drug Crackdown 'Success'
Duterte says felt rapport with Trump, assures U.S.-Philippines ties intact
Philippines President Says Trump Congratulated Him on Violent Anti-Drug Crackdown
Duterte Call With Trump Seen Warming U.S. Ties After China Tilt
Rebooting our relations with the US
Trump lauds Du30 grisly drug drive?
Duterte invites Trump to the Philippines

He's just tailoring his message to his audience! There's no way he actually believes that! He's for individual liberties!!!11

I've had RealVNC installed and updated off of Ninite.com for awhile now, and I used to be able to use it and have used it many times in the past in previous jobs. But today I want to use it and I can't because apparently I need to have a subscription. And I can get a home subscription, but that apparently doesn't let me connect directly but instead runs my connections through someone's cloud somewhere.

So I tried TightVNC, but whenever I try to connect I get a message that says "server not configured properly." Everywhere I googled for this message people were saying to try UltraVNC, so I am trying to try UltraVNC.

Except UltraVNC has the jerkiest website I have seen in a long time. Every page I bring up from their site is obscured for 10+ seconds with a shame screen telling me in four languages what a bad person I am for using an ad blocker. And the download page is apparently obscured permanently until I turn off the ad blocker.

Is there a VNC program out there that isn't run by complete jerks, and functions?

Update: when I disabled adblock plus for the UltraVNC download page, the ads seem to be for TeamViewer, a competing proprietary product. That just really does not bode well, does it?

The most memorable quotes from books that stick out in my mind, the ones that literally caused me chills or to gasp out loud:

"They're dirty, they're all dirty. The entire Five Squad."

"Fire." Enough energy shot out the side of the dreadnought to destroy a small moon, and Battlecruiser Division One ceased to exist.

She did not know what was more satisfying: the sound of a dozen swords drawn as one or the look on his face.

What are some of yours?

You gotta love Japanese television for their originality:

have you ever wondered what you could do with a tire and an olympic ski jump?

Check it out! :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f62Z8Ev9OXA

My whole company just switched to using custom timesheet software that I've been coding over the last few weeks. Feels great, although Friday I have to make sure the payroll report adds up correctly, or people may not like me any more!

424 commits in my tree. Something like 4000 lines of code.

Ever look back at your comment history and think, geez why was I being such an asshole?

Maybe a list for submitters of sites used to collect stories

I use (and ever expanding):
BBC
theverge.com
neweurope.eu (different perspective)
politico.com
washingtonpost.com (has an article limit per month)
reddit
cbc (canadian news plus a sort of unbiased news site)
Aljazeera

Can't think anymore. Vodka.

Maybe should set up a news source area? To help get submissions?

My mealworm farm has produced it's first babies: little mealworms about less than a baby finger width in length (no i am not about to try to measure them.

Hopefully i will get a good 'crop' and the cycle will go on with an increased 'harvest' of beetles (i already have more than my turtle can eat).

It's kind of cool: if you get close to the beetle 'farm' (a plastic bin filled with oatmeal and a water source (something like a pickle jar cap with carrot/celery/potato slices in it)) you can hear something like the rice crispies 'snap crackle pop' sound.
It's like a constant clicking sound. Fascinating, Captain.

I've heard you shouldn't eat the mealworms you buy from the pet store, but the next generation should be fine: whatever... it will be this batch or the next that i will be sampling.

Kind of doubting my wife and daughter will try them, but maybe my son-in-law?
Or they will all try it if i feel the need to be mean and MAKE them try it, lol.