December 2017 BY Paul Ford 2017 265 Sections Rank my stray thoughts There is going to be a very disappointed baby-eating... The mint julep is also amazing https://youtu.be/iZbzB7pbVT0 Well I mean it was that, the phone book, and the NIV Bible... You know I truly did I wish I could fav all your tweets. People think I’m cynical but what you’re actually seeing is... Hooooooooly shit this is the good stuff.... Use It’s pink slime all the way down. Can patriarchy just let kids learn snex pls... Yes, that's right. it eats the grass and grass now is 1... This will sound utterly ridiculous but I am trying to model... I took a few hours for myself, and even though the cold is... About ten years ago an editor friend once told me, as I... 83.67 of my little people have AIDS... In other news NetLogo is part of the secret firmament of... Ooooooooooof Although I'm guessing NYPL. luke is snoke I think if you're self-taught you tend to get very... Hmm. You did great work, Bert! to be fair earth is not a place for rational discourse This thread is grating. PURE CRIMINAL EVIL I think they secretly think well, my kids can afford a boat. Me too! I wish! The comments on that are the good stuff. Corcoran just sent me a postcard! What's nice is you make a buncha agents and the methods are... that's apparently part of it—in practice you have - arrays... it's basically spreadsheets but the cells can move around... see exactly Here is the interface. https://twitter.com/ftrain/status/947... photoshop actions are programming. yeah like i mean this is... OH I will say doing random stories is really fun for kids... Ten minute bursts where the thing you are making together... If you really want some programming to happen, go Sonic Pi... Programming is overrated also programming is everywhere. I... NetLogo An agent based modeling toolkit called NetLogo amy i'm so confused that was like 12 people to be fair the roman empire was 56.8 million people and the... Sure but by sheer numbers the US almost definitely has more... Yes it's great! this is a long week i'm worried people won't see how good this is It's okay we will have an intervention in the bakery. That concludes my opinions about 2017. i think a lot about the time Max was at a party and... seven years to go Son you need to delete this I converted the Enron email set to SQLite and now I'm... right as you said that abe who is sitting behind me playing... but you turned out great! Wow this is really great! awkwardly: “no...it wasn't that card” THIS IS EXTREMELY SOOTHING Plus many many other options because everything can be... Yesssssssssssssss it's a Christmas miracle @richziade Were you visiting Florida relations? That's more disassemble I gave my wife an old Sears catalog from when she was 6/7... 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I know this is crazy but maybe we could schedule something? Hahahah I was at the movies. That tapestry! I know! Wow Choire this is going TERRIBLY. Me at a party: IT ALL COMES DOWN TO RECTANGLES! Her understanding of constraints is such a huge part of... Her talk could easily have been, “I worked with some of the... Whereas most management advice is, "thought lead, and the... I woke up thinking about this. It's a very low key talk by... I think the LAST thing you want to say there is "back up a... because of my twisted double life i just listened to this and i'm VERY stressed out I'm sorry, I meant that I strongly agree. Adverb before... 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I agree—“451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons” feels right for... wow Because it’s not important. Read two sentences and knew I could recite it from memory. In itself a kind of prediction! I think it makes an interesting point but you need to talk... but it's hard to argue that correlation is stable with mass... </thread> <!-- or is it --> tabbing works okay. I wish there was a keyboard command to... i think for about 30-40 years there was a weak correlation... just kidding, i already upgraded to storify 2 as part of my... i wonder if they'll eventually just let you smush the... i wonder what this means for storify oh wow twitter threads are a first-class part of the... that article brings up a lot of bad memories because i was... Today is HORRIBLE. This one didn't age super great. I think about this all the time. I walk by their... No thank god. https://twitter.com/ftrain/status/940352492998680576/photo/1 Accurate I forgot about Dexter, which is really cool:... 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I have to assemble a dollhouse. This interactive Atlas of Economic Complexity tells me that... this...is good wanna watch bright so bad it looks so bad i want to throw... It's wild watching all the new prototyping apps building on... A couple months ago everyone at @PostlightStudio got $500... I agree strongly! It's excellent.... Wait until you see the size of their index cards!... “7 unusual fonts created in 2017” @lowcydizajnu... Gano Qi https://twitter.com/ollymoss/status/9432549644361973... EVERYONE APPLY TO THIS SO I CAN JUDGE YOU VERY FAIRLY... I am so glad @BradyDale is out there covering the actual... That one direction what a feeling song is so good and then... There’s this tiny movie theater in my neighborhood and... It’s very important even when things are stressful to look... AND MY AXE/METROCARD https://twitter.com/JPaskin/status/9417... What will they call us when all the snowflakes are gone? 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I've been messing with REPLs and just found this great,... I love seeing the @PostlightStudio used for good things by... https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/595zg5/sopranica-... Stop worrying about the tax plan.... I was in the mood for some LISP and downloaded Portacle... This is a good tweet that helped me today! In my quest to understand agent-based modeling I wrote a... I've been trying to learn about system dynamics and... The holidays is when I get a few drinks into me and start... These are now the hymn numbers up in the Internet Archive... I keep thinking about this @BW piece. It's like DEATH WISH... It's rough how much is shutting down right now but it's... Stop complaining there are more plums out back in the red...