Attack of the Giant Sperm!!!!
Actually, this is a cool slideshow on io9 about creatures who have sperm larger than their body.
Whiskey and Fireworks.
"The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jun 18
Why...
…will old people just not die.
I actually don’t wish death on the elderly, and I believe they should all be treated with a measure of respect and dignity. But I’ve gotten mighty tired of both the “Greatest” generation and the Boomer generation dictating policy that has long-reaching impacts far beyond their own possible life span. Seriously! Enough already!
Procrastination, Ahoy!
It’s been awhile since I’ve updated, basically, because I’m lazy. But also, because we’ve had a lot going on. In the last six weeks or so, I have:
- Had a few ginormous BBQs that seem to leave us cleaning and broke for days
- Set in on a half sleeve of tattooing done that is really nice, colorful and detailed. I plan to add a few pictures as soon as it’s finished.
- Fighting daily with Windows Mobile 6.1 and Gmail, which just cannot play nicely
- Learning how to use MOSS 2007, which is an ungodly nightmere of a system. I refuse to give up, though.
However, I’ll hopefully be posting more freqently soon.
May 19
How did I miss this??
May 18
Absinthe: An Endorsement.
A bit late, but funny regardless (in a teeth-gnashing, baby eating sort of way). From Get Your War On.
Machine 1, Man 0. Via Gizmodo
Wolfram Alpha
So, at long last, Wolfram Alpha launches. If you’re unfamiliar with what Wolfram Alpha is (hint: it’s not a video game), here’s the description from the site:Today’s Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.Hmmm. So, it seems that, in the statement above, the terms “all” and “systematic” are fairly relative.
Let’s take an example like, ohhhh, Anal Cancer (since Farrah’s Story, or whatever the hell it’s called) is on the background.
Here are the results for the search, What is anal cancer?:
Now, maybe this search isn’t representative of the type of information most Wolfram Alpha users are going to look for.
Here’s another, slightly more relevant test:
In fact, out of most of the searches I tried (How hard does Mike Tyson punch? What is Robohelp?), I got the same results: Wolfram doesn’t know what to do with your input. Additionally, the site seemed to freeze up on several different searches, and I had to close the Chrome tab and relaunch the site.
Overall, maybe this will be a revolutionary, incredible, mind-blowing tool that will change the face of the web. But until it can answer “What is a text message?”, I’d say it has a lot of learning to do.
May 04
This is fantastic! You use a trebuchet to destroy the castles. Click the picture to go to the game.
May 03
Advice for Jaclyn Day: When hiring for a position, even a lowly position like intern, it might be helpful to know what you’re talking about. The file format .docx is not Windows Vista, you dolt. It’s Office 2007, which anyone who has purchased Office in the last two years is almost certainly using.
Being that most of your intern candidates are students, it’s reasonable to expect that many of them are using relatively new computers, and, as follows, software suites. It’s unreasonable for you to not know this, as you apparently write for a living.
From Texts From Last Night. And I concur.
Laughing Squid’s description works best:
[Teh Awesome occurs] when closely packed particles [the cornstarch] are combined with enough liquid [good old water] to fill the gaps between them. At low velocities, the liquid acts as a lubricant, and the dilatant [cornstarch] flows easily. At higher velocities, the liquid is unable to fill the gaps created between particles [cornstarch], and friction greatly increases, causing an increase in viscosity.
