Yes, this is another post about not posting. Life has again become busy to the point that I feel guilty when I sit down. Time management has never exactly been my forte, but I know I’ve reached a new plateau when I’m doing billable work in class. I feel only somewhat fortunate [...]
Intelligent screwdriver … but at ~$650, it’s squarely aimed at people who are less intelligent than it.
(link via Gizmodo)
So there’s a mailing list for my computer science class, and… no, wait, I should back up. I’m in college, see, and I’m a CS major, and I’m taking a course called Computer Science I. And even though it’s sort of an introductory class, I just sort of assumed that all of my [...]
A quick and random roundup of some stuff I ran across in a few minutes of blogging:
Columbus, Ohio has been offering subsidized housing to the chronically homeless, which (a) seems to work pretty well and (b) only costs a little bit more per person than it costs to operate shelters. Bravo. (link via [...]
Wow. So this documentary filmmaker named Morgan Spurlock decided to eat at McDonald’s three times a day for 30 days and make a movie about what happened. Well, in addition to packing on 25 pounds (in a month!),
Within a few days of beginning his drive-through diet, Spurlock, 33, was vomiting out the window [...]
Interactive ZIP code map. Written in Java, takes a little while to load, but kinda fun. Type in your zip code and watch it narrow down to your specific city.
Well, I almost matched Brian’s high of 319.7 with my 316.3, but even without that, this is still pretty dang fun.
So I received my copy of Virtual PC for Mac today. Basically, it’s an emulator that lets you run almost any PC operating system from inside the Mac OS. In addition to being able to use it for testing my installer, giving demos of the software I’ve written, and generally being able to [...]
So every once in a while, there’s an amusing thing in the only section of the paper I read every day (the one with the funnies, that is). One of the occasional features is a word-substitution thing, as exemplified in the subject line above.
Today, rather than spoofing Star Wars, they’ve spoofed the Lord of [...]
Last night I (and a small band of intrepid explorers) watched Future War (1997), the second-worst movie I have ever seen. How bad was it? I’ve honestly seen better delivery from fully-clothed pr0n actors (and in true pr0n fashion, we watched at least half of it in fast-forward before ejecting the movie after [...]
Here’s a little treat from our recent road trip down to California: Duct Tape Madrigal in C Major, by Lou Nathanson, which we first encountered on Car Talk Car Tunes Vol. 1. You can hear samples from Lou’s other songs here.
In a particularly interesting post which is also highly characteristic of precisely what I love about his writing, Neil Gaiman sez:
The wolf defines Red Riding Hood. He makes the story happen. Without him, she’d just be another girl on her way to her grandmother’s house. And she’d leave her goodies behind, and come home, and [...]
For whatever reason, I went searching for Babylon 5 drinking games. The games themselves are just kinda silly, but I found some highly entertaining spoofs on bits of dialogue from the show. For example:
The Babylon 5 Drinking Game was our last best hope for getting drunk, it failed. But in the year Season [...]
More Wikipedia goodness: check out, and be highly amused by, the entry for heavy metal umlaut. Be sure to scroll to the bottom for the list of recent umlaut sightings.
This Wikipedia entry on l33t-sp34|{ is actually quite detailed, informative, helpful, and funny as hell. I ran across it when trying to explain what leet-speak was to my sweetie, when she ran across this post from a friend of ours. w00t!
Being of the bored variety at the moment, and seeing as how it’s actually somewhat amusing this week, I present my first-ever Friday Five:
1. What does it say in the signature line of your emails?
Just my name and email address. Prior versions have included “The pen is only mightier than the sword at distances [...]
Thinkgeek now offers a programmable LED name badge. Which is not only odd, but very similar to something I’ve wanted for years: a programmable scrolling LED display in the back of my car (I believe I can thank George Carlin for this one). There are a few things I frequently want to [...]
Probably the last thing for the evening: I seriously <heart> the pavanne from the Orlando soundtrack, a sample of which can apparently be found on this page. There’s just something about layered strings that sets my heart a-twitter (one of my other favorite pieces, ever, is Pachelbel’s stunningly overused Canon).
Two random items.
First, Neil Gaiman provided a link to what I can only think is the actual official product website for a (UK) food called Pot Noodle. It’s strange. Very strange: on the “Sweet and Sour” page, it actually says “It is a WISE SOUL who FILLS his BELLY with “POT NOODLE” [...]
Had my first day of significant classes today. (Monday and Wednesday I have one class, Tuesday and Thursday I have three.) A few observations:
Distance learning is cool, but apparently there are no trash cans in the [classroom of the] future.
Stats should be fun, although it’s odd trying to get it through my head [...]