Ned Batchelder, who turns out to be a fellow Brooklinian (Brookliner? Brooklinite? Brooklinista?), has an eclectic young blog that seems to care about programming, usability, and language as an object. By “language as object” I mean thinking about it as shapes (Halley’s Alphabetical Order (or Halphabetical Order, if you prefer)), collections of letters (pangrams) and accidental meanings (puns). And he quotes Quentin Tarrantino from a 9/23 New Yorker article:

“They don’t have anything on you, but it’s time in the cycle to take you down. So they kill you with verbs and adjectives. ‘He lumbered into the room.’ ‘He hesitated over the shrimp.’ ‘Gesticulating wildly, the motormouth Tarantino…’ Hey, fuck you, you wanna-be novelist!”

That’s a couple of days after Ned’s written “Want to quickly see how a Unicode string comes out in UTF-8?” Like I said: eclectic.

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