I've been thinking recently about the whole computers in cars thing, as in the "your car has more computing power than the system that guided Apollo astronauts to the moon" quote, and I'm getting a bit curious about what that actually means ( Read more... )

Am studying Number Theory and Mathematical Logic at the moment, which is interesting but a bit of a slog in places. One of the side effects is that I've been dreaming in maths a lot recently. I tried to explain this to daneel_olivaw and he looked blank, so I said "it's like code dreams" and he still looked blank which is when I realised that perhaps not ( Read more... )

Does anyone happen to have any spare rack nuts kicking around that I could have?

This isn't for any work-related reason; I just want to make a rack nut necklace. In my defense this would be slightly less silly than those shark tooth necklace in that I've actually come into contact with racks.

Edit: oh, and a very happy System Administrator ( Read more... )