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Ian!: Avatar and Fetishizing The Other
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Nerd things, unsolicited opinions, and the occasional outburst of bitterness. January 16, 2010. Avatar and Fetishizing The Other. Fair warning: This post may contain spoilers. However, I also feel I must point out that the foreshadowing in. Is so clumsy that the first half of the movie contains spoilers for the second half. So really, how much damage am I going to do? So, James Cameron spends a decade working on his opus, and here it is. Truth and beauty in dazzling 3D, right? Neytiri's introduction is a...
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Ian!: Cowgirls, Aliens
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Nerd things, unsolicited opinions, and the occasional outburst of bitterness. November 4, 2013. A fact that you probably already guessed: I start a lot more blog posts than I finish. In recent years, this has happened to a degree that is no less than tragic. Back when Cowboys and Aliens. Was still a newly released movie, I wrote 90% of a scathing critique of its shortcomings; a spiritual successor to my piece on Avatar. Go read their explanation of the name. It's great). Not only did they like. Fun bonus...
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Ian!: February 2010
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Nerd things, unsolicited opinions, and the occasional outburst of bitterness. February 11, 2010. Introducing Scisr, a PHP Refactorer. I'd like you all to meet my latest hobby project. It's a standalone refactoring tool for PHP. I call it Scisr. I looked around for refactoring solutions a while back when I had some tedious renaming to do at work, and was surprised by how poor the options were. This question. So like any good nerd, I decided I could do better. I had been using PHP CodeSniffer. There are de...
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Ian!: September 2010
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Nerd things, unsolicited opinions, and the occasional outburst of bitterness. September 11, 2010. Movies I Hate: Legally Blonde and Pearl Harbor. I've been badly missing my pathetically modest posting target of once a month, so it's time yet again to break out the filler. I have only one "Top Ten List" on Netflix, and it is titled Movies I Hate. The description reads, "Not just movies I strongly dislike. Movies I wouldn't piss on to put out a fire." Here are two more from that list. Enjoy.
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Ian!: Hobson's World
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Nerd things, unsolicited opinions, and the occasional outburst of bitterness. January 30, 2011. Is any choice where the only options are accepting all the terms, or none at all. There's nothing inherently bad about these types of choices. But what if Hobson's stable was the only one in town? And if horses were so heavily used that access to one was no longer a luxury? And what if his rotation wasn't a fair FIFO. Send software and/or “downloads” to the Customer Equipment. And install, configure, maintain,...
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Ian!: Money management for laid-back young professionals
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Nerd things, unsolicited opinions, and the occasional outburst of bitterness. June 2, 2010. Money management for laid-back young professionals. Disclaimer: I am not an accountant. This information is correct to the best of my knowledge, but I make no promises. Disclosure: I could in theory make money by recommending ING to someone reading this post, which would make me an affiliate. So you're doing alright. Now, you know that. Well don't worry. You. Trust me, earned interest is like magic. Not only i...
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Ian!: November 2009
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Nerd things, unsolicited opinions, and the occasional outburst of bitterness. November 8, 2009. Avoiding disaster when using svn switch. So I was going to be my usual negative self again this month, but I created something, so I'll share that instead. Your regularly scheduled cynicism will return next month. So you're working away on a branch of your project in SVN, and you need to switch to a different branch. svn switch. Folder because that's where all the real code is. And you carelessly type. To the ...
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Ian!: June 2010
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Nerd things, unsolicited opinions, and the occasional outburst of bitterness. June 2, 2010. Money management for laid-back young professionals. Disclaimer: I am not an accountant. This information is correct to the best of my knowledge, but I make no promises. Disclosure: I could in theory make money by recommending ING to someone reading this post, which would make me an affiliate. So you're doing alright. Now, you know that. Well don't worry. You. Trust me, earned interest is like magic. Not only i...
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