aaron c beals

• Comic for July 9, 2011
  - i’ve had this conversation recently. i was the PHB.

i don’t know if i’ve posted this before, but if i haven’t, i meant to. this is how i feel about python:

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• Elements of Happiness: A happy life depicted in diagrams
  - fantastic design aesthetic applied to a longitudinal study out of Harvard. really nice of the designer to make the entire thing freely available via Issuu — i just wish we could download it for offline reading. heck, i’d even pay for a print version.

• Connoisseur
  - for me, this is craft beer. for Chris, it’s wine. for you, it might be recordings of classical music. but you know it’s true.
• Permanence
  - this joke is going to completely miss 99% of you. but that 1%… you know EXACTLY what this feels like. it’s a heavy burden to bear.
• The Cloud
  - scary, but likely true. so glad we’re doing a cloud service startup.
• Comic for June 26, 2011
  - unfortunately, this very important message will never make it unto a PSA. folks, you must invite engineers to meetings.

• Comic for June 6, 2011
  - they teach “plan A” in business school during week 2.

• Extended Mind
  - first off, this is true. next, check the image's alt-text about links & philosophy (just hover your mouse over the image). scary… i just gave it a try starting with a recently-visited Wikipedia page. the path, following the rules: Evacuation Day > Public Holiday > Day > Sidereal time > Star > Plasma > Physics > Natural science > Science > Knowledge > Fact > Information > Sequence > Mathematics > Quantity > Magnitude > Property (philosophy) > Modern philosophy > Philosophy

  i’m certain this has something to do with the highest-level, most abstract terms living at the top of Wikipedia entries. still, it was a fun, quick experiment. i wonder how long it will be before the xkcd author will cook up a crawler that does exactly this, turning the results into a giant map with Philosophy in the center…

• Comic for May 7, 2011
  - i still work with organizations that require faxes. it’s truly mind-boggling.
• Comic for May 5, 2011

• Comic for May 2, 2011

• Why Multi-word Phrases Make for More Secure Passwords Than Incomprehensible Gibberish [Security]

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  - aaaaaaargh!
• Comic for February 10, 2011
• Comic for February 9, 2011