Hack your drinks at the theater

Re:Hack your drinks at the theater by silentbicycle on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @11:51AM (#326639)

This is a hack? Seriously, why don't we as a community distance ourselves from this crap?

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Re:Hack your drinks at the theater by thaumaturgy on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @12:02PM (#326649)

I hacked my mornings by making sure that the bed gets lots of early sunshine.

I hacked my grocery shopping by buying stuff that's on sale.

I hack my gas mileage by coasting down hills. (Truck has a clutch.)

...Ugh. I'm getting sick to my stomach just writing this.

Every moronic, mundane use of the word diminishes the artistry that it used to represent.

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Re:Hack your drinks at the theater by silentbicycle on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @03:46PM (#326984)

Ah, found it:

"At this juncture, I wish to apologize and formally atone for any role 43 Folders or I have had in popularizing 'hack' as the preferred nomenclature for unmedicated knowledge workers dicking around with their 'productivity system' all day. 43 Folders regrets the error." - Merlin Mann, "Four Years" (http://www.43folders.com/2008/09/08/four-years)

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Re:Hack your drinks at the theater by rsheridan6 on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @03:00PM (#326921)

I can see where this will end - "Uh-oh, baby hacked his diaper."

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