I was browsing through the e-cards at pbs.org because my nephew sent me one and I came across this beauty:

http://pbskids.org/cgi-registry/postcard/read.pl?card_id=2964776

"Windows Vista". And with that, my next many years are worse. People will say that name to me. And I'll hear them saying it to each other.

http://maps.google.com was, shall we say, amazing. http://earth.google.com puts it to shame ( Read more... )

Today on Fox News: "They're all crossing the London Bridge on foot. It's like a holiday."

Can we revoke their license? Please?

So here it is. Any language wherein writing dictates linguistic change grows insipid. Letters deified suck the soul from any tongue ( Read more... )

I've figured it out. The Autobots won't go to war against the Neocons because there's no energon involved. Ever notice how for all their pretensions of fighting evil, it's really all about keeping their cars running? (granted: they are their cars.)

What a nightmare! I've been changing the underlying map format for my platform game to support, among other things, non-euclidean geometry. It sounds easy, but I made the mistake some time after midnight last night of naming several variables of different classes 'sector' and never indicating which class I'm working with; so I have a lot of code ( Read more... )

Define var so that all input to var is posted by var back to var's input. This operation is done independent of time; if a is posted to var, this operation will be repeated at every moment, and because it is repeated at every point in the interval between the time of posting and the time of polling (checking what value var is posting to itself), a ( Read more... )

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Best day yesterday in a long while; today will be productive, for once; and tomorrow will be sublime.