It's coming. Someday. It's where we're headed if we don't change course...sometime in the next, say, 390 years. Give or take.

Here's an example I [not I as in me; I as in the poster] use with students ( Read more... )

So I've been watching Big Bang Theory and like most sitcoms, it actually is pretty funny. Also like most sitcoms, many of the jokes are flat, lame, trite, half-assed, ill-considered, or were never funny to begin with and are still overdone ( Read more... )

Pakistan is making great territorial gains in the Swat Valley. Good news, right?

Sure. Except they were supposedly governing the place sixty years ago.This, coupled with the fact that they have nuclear weapons, is not reason to sleep well. Imagine, for example, the US was not in control of roughly its northwestern third. That would be Washington, ( Read more... )

There are, for example, three metric Felicia Days to the Imperial Kutcher.

By "incredible" I mean "not believable."

Shysters always talk about how the Man tries to keep them down. Inventors with something genuinely useful (like alternating-current generators) just show you the math and get on with inventing something else, while people with money beat down their doors (sometimes not until years after the invention is ( Read more... )

"Hey, can you guys check us out [some kind of tool] so we can go fix planes, or are you too busy talking about D&D?"

"No, asshole, we were talking about particle physics; D&D's Wednesday nights."

Now for the tough part: tell me what kind of tech the first person is, and what kind the second is. Anyone who's been in Naval aviation knows instantly

Which is okay by me. That still places me in pretty decent company.

Pay to the order of...

But here is the Large Hadron rap.

Which I will say, is awfully hard to type without using the word "hardon."