For my next number, I’d like to return to the classics
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 1:21 am on 2/20/2005
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Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 1:21 am on 2/20/2005
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 3:23 pm on 2/10/2005
Last night I was writing some user stories for Cornucopt… by which I mean I was writing a user story, and by “user story,” I mean, well, follow the link if you’re that interested (but know I’m not following their spec that closely). I was trying to describe some new features we want to build, in terms of stuff that normal folks would do with them. This was frustrating, not because I couldn’t think of an adequate one - I did, although it isn’t all written down as of now - but because I only had the one, and it was insufficiently… new.
I’ve always been obsessed with the new. I have an annoying tendency only to buy books and CDs - especially CDs - that have come out in the last 12 months. Let’s not even talk about movies; I still haven’t seen Citizen Kane. I used to be mystified by people who would dig into obscure old literature and not want to read the brand new novels I was excited about. How could they feel any urgency about it?
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