Venting

I can feel a build-up of clichéd geekiness pressing against my innards like gas. I'm bloated with it but I'm also sensitive to the need to keep the cringe factor as low as possible so I'm going to try and deposit it all in this single post.

I might come back for edits.

I might not be entirely honest about when that has happened.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.”
Now they have two problems.
—Jamie Zawinski, in comp.lang.emacs

There are essentially 10 different kinds of people.
Those who understand binary and those who don't.