Monthly Archives: December 2010  A bit of Fry and Laurie
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie starred in this British sketch
comedy show in the early 90s. The sketches usually revolve
around elaborate wordplay and meta-humor, and (while weird)
they’re consistently hilarious. I’m a big fan of both of the
stars and I absolutely love this show.  Here’s a clip of the
first sketch of the show. It’s the kind of sharp satire British
comedy is famous for, and it’s just as relevant and funny now as
it was when it first aired 21 years ago.  The show is available
for streaming on Netflix, and there are lots of clips on Youtube
(of dubious video quality, like the one above).  Hidden Lucky
Star reference in Ruby on Rails documentation  Hidden in the
documentation for ActiveModel::Serializers::JSON is a reference
to Lucky Star character Konata Izumi:  konata = User.find(1)
ActiveRecord::Base.include_root_in_json = false  Konata Izumi
from Lucky Star  What this code does is look up a User object
with an id of 1, which happens to b