Notices by Ólafur Waage (olafurw@mastodon.social)

I would classify myself as a bit of a rebel. Example? I just bought 3 identical shelves from IKEA and used the manual from the first one to put together number 2 and 3.

Girls, girls, one at a time.

There are some things you'll never forget:
- Your first kiss.
- Your family's old landline number.
- The Windows XP cd-key that always worked

My dad: "What a beautiful creature"
Me: "I think they are peeing"

Is there a nuclear reactor in my basement or is the radon measurement device I have broken.

I think it's the 2nd thing. I think.

Icelandic Heat Wave.

https://youtube.com/shorts/SV4K_8h9Hvg

Nervous system?
No, there is no system to it when I'm nervous.

"Boss" is a common term for the ultimate enemy battle in video games. It's common enough that many other languages just adopted that word.

But not Icelandic. It's Endakall or "Final dude"

@jedi because people lack nuance and also think I'm ignoring coding expression vs physical action.

Oh boy, I also posted this on LinkedIn, initially there weren't many comments.

But it gained traction and it's now reached outside my bubble and people are maaaaad.

If you're not a programmer, just know that people arguing about programming languages are arguing what is the best way to type on the keyboard so that the computer puts numbers into boxes.

And it's all the same boxes in those languages because they're all talking to the same computer.

Am I retired? Yup. Yesterday I was tired and today I'm tired again.

You want a unique name for your kid? That's what uuids are for. Here 0cd5cde3-814f-463d-bbf6-839bdcbefbab

"What game are you playing?"
-"Hearthstone"
"The card game?"
-"Yeah"
"Ahh, I've never been into first person top-down perspective games"
-"What on earth did you just say?"
"Well I guess the cards coming onto the screen are more like a side scroller"
-"..."

"I love pyramids"
-"Oh cool, me too, which one is your favorite?"
"Food"
-"..."

If other video games were named like Death Stranding 2: On the Beach.

Bioshock 3: In the Sky.
Portal 2: Many years later.
Mortal Kombat 2: Now being hosted in Outworld.
Fallout 2: Grandchild fetches a thingamajig.
Doom 2: Hell on Earth... wait a minute.

"This is absolute Cinema"
-"Do you know what Cinema actually is?"
"Isn't it the place where old people go to watch really long TikToks?"
-"..."

"You should learn art" - says the art person
"You should learn science" - says the science person
"I would never wish this on my worst enemy" - says the programming person

Databases are still using tables? Don't they know we've switched to <div> years ago?

"I connect, therefore I am." - René DeSCART

"The 2000s didn't have like a defining thing, for me"
-"What about listening to System of a Down while playing World of Warcraft?"
"I retract my statement."