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correct horse battery staple -- the sequel
So, I was thinking about this comic. Four random words makes a great password when there aren't any length limitations, but that's often not the case. The obvious workaround is to shorten "correct horse battery staple" to "corhorbatsta", but if you're not careful you could lose a lot of entropy that way.
Here is a comma-separated list of a little ( Read more... ) -
enormity
So far as I can piece together from the OED, the story is this ( Read more... ) -
stuff about polynomials
So, I think of the following things as being standard high-school fare ( Read more... ) -
my annoyed realization of the day
It's not actually possible to compute degrees of consanguinity with an ammeter. -
some moderately absurd nitpicking
1. The frame story of the Arabian Nights is set "at the time of the Sasanid dynasty" (224-651) -- i.e., sometime before the rise of Islam. A bunch of the internal stories mention Islam or are set during the reign of the caliph Harun al-Rashid (786-809). Are we to conclude that Shahrazad is a time-traveler ( Read more... ) -
Am I imagining things?
Or did LJ's clickbox quizzes used to report results as a percentage of the number of people voting, rather than as a percentage of the votes received?
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random thought of the day
Someone who does themed movie nights (i.e., not me) should do a "movies that are better than Citizen Kane" night, including How Green Was My Valley and Chimes At Midnight. I'm not sure if there's an obvious third movie; I suppose you could cop out and watch Citizen Kane itself.
Of course, this requires finding a copy of Chimes At Midnight...