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Old cartoons, live on the net!
There's a few commercials, but whee! Cartoons I remember from kidhood... (of course, this means they are probably not PC to today's standards - after all, forewarned is forearmed... No detonating allowed ( Read more... ) -
I dunno anything about physics, but I like reading about it
Excerpt below is from an article posted on ars technica.
This sciencey stuff is odd, Maynard.
The insanely weird quantum wave function might be "real" after all
by Chris LeeThere's a long, long history of puzzled physicists showing that the wave function must be a bizarre object. [...] According to the rules of quantum mechanics, if I measure ( Read more... ) -
*snort*
XKCD ahahaha
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Oddity of the day
I was sitting on the front porch watching the rain today. I saw something fall from the palm tree and heard it thunk on the soggy grass. I went to investigate, hoping it was not a baby bird. It wasn't. It was a walnut. I was so confused. -
On account of I didn't get a birthday yet this year
I had the evil flu on my birthday this year. And then my kitty died.
If anyone wants to get me a present for the non-birthday, I am still looking for a cool DSLR.
I would be equally happy with a pointer to a good model and a sale :)
By the way, have you seen this camera???
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Repost, but still TOTALLY appriopiate (4yr redux)
...there was this bit of imagery that totally captured my imagination and illustrated my mental processes (so, like, maybe other people could see the machinery clattering about in my head!)
It said (italics mine):
A good programmer working intensively on his own code can hold it in his mind the way a mathematician holds a problem he's working on ( Read more... ) -
Dear darn wannabe jumper on the Dumbarton today,
You have single-handedly rekindled and fanned the desire for flying cars (or even a hovercraft) into flame.
Also? 30 miles home, I left at 4pm. I got home at 7:30pm. While I do recognize it's very likely that you are having a much worse day than I am, I am not especially thrilled with your gift.
Not much love, really,
-housepet
