Whaddya know…

…and here you’re thinking that it can’t happen in this day and age.

Moral Lesson? Don’t dismiss it too quickly the next time that script-kiddie wannabe CS freshman or that know-it-all coworker brags about finding a bug in GCC. There’s always hope for everyone.

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Good Will Hunting: Redux

Although smart people (read: not an idiot like me) would already know this from IMDB, there were things that I didn’t know about ‘Good Will Hunting’ ’til I saw it again this weekend:

• It was directed by Gus Van Sant (same guy who directed Elephant…no? ok, how about Milk? still nothing? seriously, you need to go watch something other than a Michael Bay movie)
• Casey Affleck was there. (did you know he was in the American Pie franchise as well?)
• Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier were co-producers of this film.  Not surprising considering Kevin, Matt and Ben knew each other for quite a while now, but that the View Askew productions have this movie in their repertoire alongside Mallrats and Jay and Silent Bob The Movie is mind-boggling.
• The in-classroom shot in the first 5 minutes in the movie was filmed in one of the classrooms in Maclennan Physical labs at University of Toronto, specifically the same room where I spent time dozing off to Physics 100 and CSC373.   Apparently, most of the interior scenes of MIT and Harvard was shot at U of T as well.

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Are we losing to 140-character world?

@twitter I hope #not…

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Untitled

conjure up the sea and sing songs
of gladness and of tears
whence the inspiration comes
a mighty shove disappears

twisted and fertile, the womb of many
brings forth rejuvenation,
a celebration among those; be merry
the last of which ends abruptly

the lonely neighbor of the world tonight,
catapults my mind into wanderlust
soul and strong its character awaits,
devours the heart of any doubts

wax and wane the body troubles,
as it lays itself to rest
the christened sun arises
as the troubles shooked its guests
invade the weakness and vacate the spot
come forth and be merry; be still and be nigh

- g.f.

Filed under: Uncategorized , boredom, it's all relative

Web 2.0 At Its Best

Here’s (via Gizmodo) an evidence of Google’s trade secret on how its mash-ups and fancy web 2.0 stuff really work.

And you thought it was AJAX all along…

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