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∞ 25 May
78

#LOST
#insane

Unanswered LOST Questions (via erik)

See, I was going to write a post about my thoughts on the show and how I actually didn’t mind the ending that much, but then this one video reminded me just how many inconsistencies and issues there were with the show over the years.

∞ 24 May
13

#creativity

tumbledthoughts asks: "Was re-watching the Ira Glass video on storytelling, where he talks about the time it takes for your creative output to catch up with your own taste, and it made me wonder: Is there anything still around that you created that you are embarrassed by? Or did you do like Mahler, who destroyed most of his early works?"

The thing about creativity and taste is that they’re always changing. What I thought was great work in 1998 was great work for me in 1998. To judge it solely through my current point of view would be to discredit how I felt at the time. The older I get, the more refined my creativity becomes, but I’m also a very different person now than I was 12 years ago.

Everything you create is useful. You learn from it, you obsess on it, you stress about what people think of it, you tear it all down and do it again. In the end, your specific tastes don’t matter nearly as much as your work ethic and your desire to constantly create great stuff.

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∞ 13 May
23

#cocoa
#iphone
#dev
#nerdery

adamjspooner asks: "Garrett, do you have any advice or nuggets of wisdom for aspiring iPhone/iPad app developers? Or things you wished you'd known from the beginning? Also, nuggets of wisdom sounds kinda gross. Sorry about that."

I don’t have much advice or wisdom in general, but I can boil down my suggestions for budding iPhone/iPad app developers into a few words: Read some books, come up with a killer (and unique) idea, bust your ass and then grow a thick skin.

If you’re new to Objective-C and Cocoa or even just to iPhone OS development, read some books first (I recommend Beginning iPhone 3 Development as well as Craig Hockenberry’s new iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual on the iPhone OS side—look for Hillegass and other standards for the pure-Cocoa side) and then start playing with the SDK. Run through tutorials, play around. Once you get used to the framework and language, it’s actually quite pleasant to work with.

Then set out to design and develop a unique and awesome app. This part, unfortunately, I can’t give you much advice for. It’s all your problem.

Once you release the app, get used to dealing with idiots, the App Store process, and other such nonsense. It’s fun. Hopefully you’ll make a little money as well. But I can’t guarantee that.

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∞ 13 May
32

#creepy
#80s
#tv

Creepy Host of “Just Like Mom” Fergie Olver Kisses Little Girls

I know it was the 80s and all, but I can’t believe no one stopped this from happening. When a contestant on your show calls you a “dirty old man” off camera and THEY AIR IT, you know things are bad. Pretty sure the pitch meeting for this show went something like this:

  • Fergie Olver: “Hey, I’ve got a perfect idea for a show, guys. I’ll host the show and we’ll have lots of little girls on it. And I’ll kind of just keep kissing them.”
  • Producer: “Wait, what’s the point of the show?”
  • Fergie Olver: “They answer questions.”
  • Producer: “Yeah, but that other part—about kissing little girls?”
  • Fergie Olver: “All the contestants will be little girls.”
  • Producer: “Right…”
  • Fergie Olver: “So then I kiss them and ask them questions.”
  • Producer: “Wait, I still don’t understand why you’re kissing them.”
  • Fergie Olver: “What do you mean?”
  • Producer: “Why are you kissing these little girls?”
  • Fergie Olver: “Because they’re the contestants.”
  • Producer: “I know they’re the contes—seriously, you’re talking about kissing underage girls on television? Don’t you think that’s gonna be an issue?”
  • Fergie Olver: “I don’t understand the question.”
  • Producer: “Fine, whatever, do the show.”
∞ 10 May
51

#radio
#dumbass

I left the shower radio on. 10 hours ago. For the most part, throughout the day, I didn’t hear it because the bathroom door was closed and I was listening to music in my office on the other side of the apartment.

Until just now, when I walked out of the office to go grab some food. It was completely dark in the apartment and I could hear the faintest sounds of depressing/eerie 20s-era music in the distance. I hadn’t quite put together where the sound was coming from as I approached the living room in the dark. Suddenly, the wind pulled the bathroom door open just as the eerie music crescendoed.

Anyway, that’s why I’m showering again. Because of the poo. In my pants.

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