This is why we can't make the bed in our house:
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Our living room has a (currently-decorative) fireplace in the middle of one wall, with L-shaped radiators on either side. (In a bit of cleverness, somebody built window-seats over those radiators.) Erik in particular likes to lie in front of these radiators, using the L shape and body curve to maximize the thermal properties of the arrangement. ( Read more... )

Stack Overflow has a candidate site for Q&A on Jewish topics. Stack Overflow takes what looks like a sound approach to launching new sites like this, waiting until enough people commit before launching. After all, if they can't attract good questions and good answers, no one will care. I committed.
What ( Read more... )

Neat visualization #1: the scale of the universe, showing how big (and small) things are. Link from filkerdave.
Ooh, pretty: when Planet Earth looks like art. Link from browngirl.
Overheard at work: "Every time a developer cries, a tester gets his horns".
Neat visualization #2, from a coworker: 200 counteries, 200 years, 4 minutes.
I had sometimes wondered ( Read more... )

When I came home from work on erev Sukkot I was greeted by the plaintive wail of a ( Read more... )

At the Giant Eagle pharmacy ( Read more... )

Dear Baldur ( Read more... )

This phone conversation with a customer (who I've met once) today made perfect sense at the time and only prompted the "wait, what?" reaction later:
Me: In your application, what's the difference between a Thingie and a Whatsis? [Names have been changed to protect the... oh, never mind.]
Him: Do you remember "I'm Just a Bill" from Schoolhouse ( Read more... )

A snippet from a recent meeting ( Read more... )

Yesterday one of the two microwaves in the kitchen at work broke. It acquired a note taped to the front, with gradual accretions yesterday and today. Approximately, and in order ( Read more... )