#introductions if there were two guys on the moon and one of them killed the other one with a rock would that be fucked up or what
so, @settinger designed and printed a comic sans typewriter ball so we're testing it on my IBM selectric this afternoon and it totally does work!
Every organizational system ever designed starts with a blog post like "I put a red notebook on my desk for stuff that's important" and in like 5 years theres several competing Red Notebook instagram accounts with several million followers each and they all sell their own branded Red Notebooks which are like red notebooks but they say Red Notebook on the cover and cost 50 dollars
Imagine a piece of tissue paper.
Coat it with cyanotype chemicals.
Fold it into an origami crane.
Let it be a crane for a while, in any place with a bit of light. Ignore it, play with it, whatever.
After a while, unfold it. Develop.
You'll get an image.
The image is the memory of it's experience as an origami crane.
Repeat. Every crane's experience - and hence every image - will be unique.
Here's 4 out of the >750 I've made so far.
Many of us have now heard of Rust's "being upset at a broken embedded system in an elevator" origin story, but not many younger programmers know that C++ was invented by Bjarne Stroustrup after he forgot to null-terminate his legs while putting his shoes on one day and had to deal with the aftermath.
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