The only way this program could be more useful is if it deleted itself when you try to run it.

Things I'm looking forward to:

• A saner science policy without ideologically revised reports, arbitrary bans on research funding, or managers muzzling scientists.
• Less torture.
• Fewer invasions.
• Reversing the erosion of abortion rights and renewing focus on the underlying causes of situations that lead people to choose abortion.
• Overturning DOMA, Don't ( Read more... )

x4500$ df -h
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d10 11G 5.5G 5.0G 53% /
...
swap 15G 28K 15G 1% /var/run
zpool1 34T 5.3G 34T 1% /zpool1

34 terabytes =O

Technically, 34 tebibytes. 37 decimal terabytes.

Patrick Fitzgerald is awesome. That is all.

After eight years of loyal service, the rear right channel has crapped out on my A/V receiver (actually connected to the computer). It's not the speaker, since it works fine if I swap it with the rear left (but then the rear left doesn't ( Read more... )

If we have deflation this year instead of inflation, I may get a raise in real dollars instead of just nominal ones!

Will Tropico 3 be set in a thinly fictionalized Somalia?

I can't believe we elected this guy again.

While reading a paper by a Swedish mathematician that referred to Euler's study of the graph defined by the seven bridges of Königsberg, I realized I might be a bit more familiar with European geography than American. I only have trouble with the southeastern part of Europe, which is to me kind of like the American midwest. I know there's a few ( Read more... )

This is just ridiculous.