Hello World. It's me, Ariel.

Yeah, that never gets old.
May 2, 2016

“Delish”!??!?!

Another Murakami aside:

“It’s delish,” she said.

What?! When did this early 90s librarian lady get replaced by a millenial?!?

Just completely broke my immersion.

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May 1, 2016

Murakami Character: How To

Protagonist:

  • Whiskey
  • Records: jazz, classical
  • Old westerns
  • Cooks: pasta, side dishes
  • Creative type job or no job
  • Passive
  • Not many friends/family
  • Not overly social
  • Yet undefinable sex appeal to females in his vicinity

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Apr 17, 2016

Directives, Transclusion, and Scoping, Oh My

Recently I had to learn some Angular to work on (and eventually build a scaled-down demo of) a work project. Having done most of my prior projects in Backbone and with most of my current focus on React, the Angular angle (heh heh) was a bit of uncharted territory. Nevertheless, always fun to learn something new, right?

Well, kinda.
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