Brad Collins

@deerpig

expat, futurist, serial entrepreneur, ukulele strummer and emacs hacker... Founder of

Phnom Penh, Cambodia
chenla.org
Joined April 2008
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  1. Jun 11

    "So indifferent are academics to presentation, it seems, that the PowerPoint slide which announced the existence of the Higgs Boson was partly written in the font Comic Sans." — Rory Sutherland

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  2. Jun 4

    As you might have heard, Microsoft is buying GitHub. What is the most delicate way to phrase this? I think, "you fuckers" is about right. We will move before the evil deed is complete.

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  3. Mar 31

    "Some liars go to prison, others write television shows" -- Rod Sterling

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  4. Feb 21

    QOTD: "Emacs uses Lisp. Its compact and “unusual” syntax scares off the weak minds." -- Chen Bin (redguardtoo)

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    Feb 11
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    Here is the emacs equivalent

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  6. Feb 13

    Wait, the Olympics have started? No one ever tells me anything....

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  7. Feb 13

    I'm not on facebook. How can I report a Nigerian scammer who is using someone's name and photos on Facebook to try and scam a women with HIV in Phnom Penh? Sad world we live in....

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  8. Feb 10

    "When everyone lies, telling the truth isn't just rebellion. It's an act of revolution. So think carefully when you speak it, because the truth is a weapon." -- Altered Carbon S01E05

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  9. Feb 7

    Congratulations, Elon Musk: Earth's First Interplanetary Litterbug via "potentially endangering the lives of future Mars-bound astronauts" WTF. Not sure what word fits this post. Dick? Idiot? Clueless? How about all three...

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  10. Jan 3

    Someone has to protect the server room. Who better than godzilla?

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  11. 30 Dec 2017

    There are some things that shouldn't be joked about :)

    Spaces!
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  12. 30 Dec 2017

    Getting ready for the year of the dog. The calendar is in khmer, chinese, vietnamese and english.

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  13. 8 Dec 2017

    I do hope that a future laundry novel will use , and for Literate Demonology (TM), it's hard to remember incantations, it would be easier to include comments and notes and then tangle.

    There are not enough Oklahoma pastor-run artisanal white supremacist prostitution rings in the current Laundry novel I'm editing, and I'm not sure I can find a spare corner to wedge one in.
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  14. 6 Dec 2017

    "Why are you clicking on things with a mouse? I thought you're using Emacs?"

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  15. 22 Nov 2017

    "The pyramids were built with emacs. Everything else is drywall to me now." -- arca_vorago

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  16. 21 Nov 2017

    Elon Musk Shouldn't Build Cities On Mars via Wow, Futurism hates mars so much they are now posting stories about colonizing Titan as being anti-mars. This is the third anti-mars past this week.

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  17. 6 Nov 2017

    My grit score is a 4.70. What’s yours?

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  18. 5 Nov 2017

    Sorry, the quote in my last tweet wasn't Henry but his brother William James in his 1899 essay "The Gospel of Relaxation"

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  19. 5 Nov 2017

    It costs $80 to add new pages, it used to be free. And you have to make an appointment to go to US embassies now.

    New passport bc my last one ran out of room. 😸Did you know that USA offers extra-large passports w/2x the pages? 🌎 ✈️
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  20. 5 Nov 2017

    "You Americans... wear too much expression on your faces.... you take too intensely the trivial moments of life." - quoted by Henry James

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