December 2010
14 posts
20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words from Around the... →
3. Jayus Indonesian – “A joke so poorly told and so unfunny that one cannot help but laugh”
“Those who are enamoured of practice without theory are like a pilot who goes...”
– Leonardo Da Vinci
Update on aforementioned chicken: OMG, that was the most amazing chicken I’d ever tasted.
Written by a commenter on this NYT article, but I echo the sentiment:
Argh! I’m getting sick of the abuse of words like “Transparency.” If the Coca-Cola Company were to cook it’s books and announce a quarterly profit when in fact it had made a loss during that quarter, the issue would be transparency. But when it refsues to make it’s secret formula public, the issue...
“Mike Subelsky, one of the co-founders at OtherInBox.com, is a keen advocate of...”
– “12 Programming Mistakes to Avoid”, by Peter Wayner. I thought he also had interesting comments about the pitfalls of Rails coding, too.