This makes me think maybe I should take a physics course ( Read more... )

I've been blowing more and more dust out of my Mac Pro over the last few days. The worst problem I've had is getting it to recognize all its installed RAM. From a quick Google, it seems like this is may be a common problem for this class of machine. Unfortunately, I don't remember how much RAM this computer last had, or when or where I bought the ( Read more... )

To start with, we might ask what a weekend is for:

1. Rest: catching up on the sleep you missed during the week.
   
2. Religious observance: Saturdays for jews, Sundays for christians.
   
3. Hobbies: attending sporting events, garage sales, building birdhouses.
   
4. Errands: cleaning, repairing, resupplying.
   
5. Spending time with friends and family: going on dates, ( Read more... )

Directions typically say something like "boil water, add pasta, return to boil, boil for 7 minutes." But it's always ambiguous as to when the 7 minutes actually begin. Is it when you add the pasta? Or is it after the water has returned to a boil? What constitutes the level of "boilingness" that starts the cooking process? Will a burble suffice? Or ( Read more... )

...as weighed on a scale. Some people say you weigh more, because the lighter-than-air gas inside you provides a slight lift, that disappears when you discharge it. Call this "the pricked balloon" theory. Others disagree, because the gas inside you is under pressure, therefore not lighter than air, and so releasing it makes you weigh less. Call ( Read more... )

When I refer to CLI (Command-Line Interface) apps, I mean anything that doesn't have a GUI (Graphical User Interface). I imagine some of these would be dependent on resources that don't exist in iOS. It would be interesting, however, to learn which ones "just work." Google doesn't seem to shed much light on the issue. I guess there's no harm in ( Read more... )

This is a scam, right? I wake up, I'm not at all hungry, and now I'm expected to wolf down a pile of eggs and pancakes? Seriously? The research most frequently cited in support of this idea is a survey of a couple thousand people which found that self-reported breakfast-skippers were often fat. This doesn't seem like the kind of research one should ( Read more... )

With TV, the advice is to pick programs you want to watch in advance, and then just watch those programs. If you channel-surf, you get into a state where you'll waste an entire day watching TV.
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I know I haven't been around for awhile, but man, has it gotten bad! It's my understanding that the original programmer grew up at some point and got a life, and since there wasn't much money in this he decided to cash out. In the meantime, due to a fluke of translation, the site became intensely popular in Russia. As with all popular things in ( Read more... )

This is the Adagio in G Minor, attributed to Albinoni, but probably composed by his biographer. Evan, my classical music reference librarian, was surprised that I recognized it in a soundtrack when he didn't. The question is: how did I recognize this work? This isn't a riddle, I honestly don't know where I heard it before. It is somehow extremely ( Read more... )