So I'm scanning through the table of contents of an anthology of short fiction that I'm currently reading when I see, about 2/3 down the page:

"... by Harlan Ellison ®"

The man has made his own name into a registered trademark, and insists it be listed that way.
What a douche.

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It occurred to me tonight that the half-assery involved in the average Rails component is a multiplicative rather than additive property.

For instance, if you use four half-assed Rails components in your project, you project doesn't have two asses, but rather a sixteenth of an ass.

I remember when writing software didn't make me want to say "you want fries with that, d00d?" when I committed to version control.