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xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

Carlo, our new team member at TeacherLine, just forwarded me this XKCD. No matter how much you mine through the archives at XKCD, there is always another funny episode you missed. It’s incredible.

This comic does pretty much sum up the experience of moving to Python for us. It’s been great to work with, and Carlo is finding it rewarding after just a couple weeks of messing with it. We have a joke around the office whenever somebody pulls off something cool in Python and is asked, "How did you do that?" We always answer, "You just have to import awesome at the top of your code."

The Exercist, originally uploaded by shawnrider.

I’ve been digging around, trying to grab up all the various things that never made it into a cohesive site before. I have a lot of miscellaneous photoshop images that I occasionally want to be able to pull up and I can never find them. I found this batch hiding on an old hard drive. They mostly date from 2003.

I love these old p-chops. I can really see my skills and understanding of images growing. Anyway, check them out for yourself in my Photoshops set.

shawn waiting at white flint metro fall 2007, originally uploaded by shawnrider.

Uploaded a series of photos to Flickr today. Mainly I’m crossposting this so I can see how the other integrations pick it up, but I also became aware that there aren’t very many good photos of myself online. So this should make it easier to grab decent profile pix when signing up to new sites and whatnot. And if you have a burning desire to see what Shawn Rider looks like, then this should pretty much answer that question…

Sarah has been sitting next to me all night giggling at wildly inappropriate moments considering the movie I’ve been watching: a PBS documentary about some sad down being forced to relocate due to widespread lead contamination (“The Creek Runs Red” on Independent Lens). Talk about depressing…

So she finally IMs me a link to the gallery she’s looking at and it’s this Album Sleeveface Meme, which she’s pointed out to me a few times before. I’m not sure where it came from, but there are about twice as many images today as there were yesterday (at least on the sites Sarah has found) and the images have two crucial qualities: 1) They are hilarious. 2) They are easy to make. Just like slapping some IMPACT or ARIAL BLACK text onto a kitty-cat photo, these things practically make themselves. In fact, a run of photoshopped sleeveface images can’t be too far away…

Here are a couple links:

Random Sleeveface Gallery

Fun Tuna: Cool Sleevefaces Illusions