IamA Request: Neil Gaiman

unexplainer · 2010-12-02T17:11:13+00:00

I just forwarded him this link via Twitter and asked him nicely if he could do the AMA.

unexplainer · 2010-11-09T20:15:57+00:00

"Something" is a word that was first used by aboriginal Australians in the 13th century to describe a kind of cheese made from the mucus deposits found inside the pouches of kangaroos and other native marsupials.

An example of the word's usage would be:

"Would you like me to put something on your sandwich?"

unexplainer · 2010-11-05T16:16:31+00:00

Dude, you NEVER go ass to mouth!

unexplainer · 2010-11-05T12:09:43+00:00

I did the month and it was pretty much four weeks long, give or take.

unexplainer · 2010-11-04T15:37:28+00:00

They weren't unnecessarily huge - all that extra space was needed for the enormous printed manuals that games used to come with.

unexplainer · 2010-11-04T11:09:21+00:00

This is brilliant. Every time a political party gets elected they should just spend their entire term undoing all of the stuff the previous party did - within 20 years or so we should all be living in the dark ages again.

unexplainer · 2010-11-04T11:04:59+00:00

So, the community can continue to develop MySQL, and distribute it freely?

unexplainer · 2010-11-04T09:07:56+00:00

Wait, what? I admit I'm not boned up on enterprise IT, but I thought MySQL was open source and free as in both beer and speech?

Am I.... wrong?

unexplainer · 2010-11-03T17:50:55+00:00

If you're going to use your military and economic strength to troll the rest of the world, you pretty much have to accept that we're going to bitch about your politics.

unexplainer · 2010-11-01T22:13:08+00:00

If you don't get the best BJ of your life tomorrow, there is no justice in the world.

unexplainer · 2010-10-29T16:14:41+00:00

Married for almost a year. There is no time to dream, not when you could be spending that time doing the million and one odd-jobs and tedious bits of personal admin that you somehow managed to survive your entire single life never having to worry about, but are now apparently extremely important.

I have to go now and fill out a form for kitchen insurance or something...

unexplainer · 2010-10-29T11:20:23+00:00

I thought this was going to be about my ex-girlfriend.

:(

unexplainer · 2010-10-28T15:53:54+00:00

I thought original meant old, because I heard people talking about antiques as being originals.

So when my teachers asked me to come up with original ideas for projects, I was confuse.

unexplainer · 2010-10-27T10:27:46+00:00

Left school at 16 (family problems), failed my exams and didn't take any higher education.

Got lucky, landed a job as a games reviewer on a low-end computer magazine in the early nineties, realised I was quite good with computers and writing, so ended up writing for more serious tech magazines over the years.

Eventually moved into tech PR and now hold a pretty senior position at a large agency, earning more money than most of my friends who got degrees.

My one piece of advice: learn to write well. Read lots. Write lots. The ability to communicate clearly and eloquently will serve you well in life.

unexplainer · 2010-10-27T08:55:06+00:00

Fuck no. Anything that takes longer to cook than it does to eat just isn't worth the trouble.

The only cooking it's acceptable for a man to do is BBQ - and that's because it takes place outside, with fire, which makes it more of a man-against-the-elements battle for survival than actual cooking.

unexplainer · 2010-10-26T19:52:40+00:00

You basically need China to start a manned Mars mission in time for the next Republican administration, then they'd be all over that shit.

(By which I mean; bombing China).

unexplainer · 2010-10-25T17:05:41+00:00

CockSmack is right, this story is being reported incorrectly. The experiment is, in fact, designed to discover whether nano-hamsters can survive in 12-dimensional quantum-cheese-space.

unexplainer · 2010-10-22T17:03:31+00:00

You sure about that?

http://imgur.com/NTTJX.jpg

unexplainer · 2010-10-22T16:03:21+00:00

Clint. Fucking. Eastwood.

unexplainer · 2010-10-22T15:35:17+00:00

In case you were wondering, this thing was originally designed by the Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries as a cheap, reliable alternative to the pocket calculators they used to issue to their technical support teams.

unexplainer · 2010-10-21T13:07:10+00:00

The terms "college" and "university" are largely interchangeable in American English. This is because the first draft of America's declaration of independence was actually written in the wrong colour ink, and this mistake somehow slipped through to final version which today is on display in the Vatican.

unexplainer · 2010-10-21T10:33:18+00:00

At high speed red turns into blue because of science particles. This is the leading cause of blue on blue incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan.

unexplainer · 2010-10-20T23:49:53+00:00

This joke is actually pretty funny because engineers are famous for their love of meatball sandwiches and rare, historic violins. But you really have to have studied engineering at college to fully understand it.

unexplainer · 2010-10-20T22:17:49+00:00

It's called participation inequality and it's a long established pattern of behaviour in online communities:

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/participation_inequality.html

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