Livejournal claims I haven't updated in 4 weeks, so I'm about due for something. This week, however, instead of complaining about stuff, I'm going to present you with something mathy I thought of tonight.

I've been doing some of the Project Euler problems. I've been doing them in Ruby, because that's my current language of choice. I've been a ( Read more... )

I'm going to change tacks tonight and post publicly to write about something which pissed me off one time too many tonight. Next time it'll be back to the yawning, bitching and bawling, I promise ( Read more... )

I was putting on a t-shirt today and noticed something: the only seams on the shirt are around the sleeves, down the sleeves, and across the shoulders. Notably, there were no seams down the sides of the shirt. That implies that there are three pieces of fabric involved: the main "trunk" piece, and the the two sleeves. From a topographical ( Read more... )

Apparently, Bam-Bam has actually been Pebbles all along. Who knew ( Read more... )

Dear Palomar,

When I downloaded your most recent (but now year-old) album All Things, Forests off of eMusic.com the other day, I had thought that I was really just giving it a spin. I really like III, but I'd kind of been waiting for you to come to the NC area for another show before I tried to buy another CD. (You did once, but unfortunately I ( Read more... )

Day 2 of not napping in the evening. I didn't get up earlier this morning, though. I'm also breaking the rule of eating before 9, too. But I did go for a ride down the ATT.

The word of the week is "mantanglement."

I saw this on the site today, and was greatly amused:



What's really only interesting to those of us who like to play the musical six degrees of separation game is that they're on the label started by the Pabu Boy himself, ex-Skankin' Pickle Mike Park. Skankin' Pickle's live album is probably one of the three CDs that got me in to ska and punk ( Read more... )

I swear, I haven't doctored this image at all:


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I came across this website by accident when looking up the definition to the word "racketeering." I'm not sure what's more frightening, however: that there are people who take it seriously, or the fact that after about 20 minutes I found myself sort of understanding it.

An artist on the site's name caught me this morning as I was scanning some list: Iceman. It's not as awful as it could be. He joins Kwai Chang Caine and at least 4 Hilary Duffs, the legitimacy of whom I somewhat doubt. But Bill and Batman are legit, so far as I can tell ( Read more... )