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On Football
I don't know how much longer I can keep this up.
A lab that's been specializing in testing for chronic traumatic encephalopathy found it in 87 out of 91 former NFL players's brains, when tested posthumously. Now, this is a somewhat skewed sample, since people who feared they had it were more likely to donate their brains, but there's "somewhat ( Read more... ) -
Dim Sum Poems
So, this year, I was invited to a long-running Xmas morning dim sum get-together with some friends. What I did not know, until roughly 24 hours before, was that it was often a tradition to bring little somethings to exchange as gifts. At that moment, I was still busily assembling half of my Xmas present for the twins (hand-bound books for them to ( Read more... ) -
Belated notice
For those who have not seen it elsewhere, Lori and I are getting divorced ( Read more... ) -
Meme for BART
http://cheezburger.com/7862715648 -- feel free to redistribute, or alter as further as you like. -
Today, I am garrulous.
A minor note: if my reading of the numbers is correct, twice as many people watched the successful end of the Texas filibuster as were on the SCOTUSblog liveblog waiting for word of the announcement. -
Schwartz's Corollary to Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
Any sufficiently powerful piece of infrastructure or code management software cannot be both complete and consistent.
(Yes, git and puppet, I am looking at you.) -
Signs of the imminent death of LiveJournal?
It's 3 full hours after the DOMA/Prop 8 ruling, and I don't see a single post on it on my f-list ( Read more... ) -
Europa-Klub-Meister!
Yaaaaaay! -
Ahem.
What the blue-eyed, furry-tailed, batwinged bugfuck?
I can hypothesize. I will. Right now, I'm just going WTBEFTBWBF? -
This is the day of Dr. Who postings...
Later today I'll be posting my thoughts on what's been wrong with Dr. Who these past couple of seasons. But, since we're coming up on the Big Season Finale, which has been producing some hyperventilating speculation, I'll toss out my (almost certainly wrong) ideas, and thoughts, on the Big Reveal.
( Put behind a cut because, well, quantum spoilers* )