... you post a reply to your SO's LJ posting instead of telling her your reply when she's sitting less than two feet from you.

It's SNOWING outside.

This is *highly* unusual in Seattle, in February. Almost as unusual as, say, having 50 degree weather in Michigan on Christmas.

[EDIT] And, ten minutes later, we're back to sunny skies.

For those of you who don't watch Slashdot.

Apparently, some random number generators can see into the future...If you've read "Margins Of Reality", this appears to be an adjunct/followup of this work. In a nutshell: We (humans) can influence random events, to a statistically significant degree. However, this effect is about 6 parts in one ( Read more... )

After 3 buses, 2 trains, and a couple of car rides.

Conversationlet that occured tonight between singingnettle and I:

Me: Hmm?
S: Oh, I was just thinking about how fragile life is, and that we shouldn't spend it fighting.(S comes over to hug me. I'm sitting, and she bends over to hug me. In so doing, she manages to place her collarbone on my adam's apple, effectively cutting off my airflow.)
Me: Gurgle ( Read more... )

(Ignoring the fact that singingnettle is on my friends list...

A book you own that no one on your friends list does:

The Pyrates (by George MacDonald Fraser)

A CD you own that no one on your friends list does:

Bagpipes of the World, by Sean Folsom

A DVD/VHS tape you own that no one on your friends list does:

singingnettle and my wedding ceremony.
Also, my version of ( Read more... )

.. is a really cool function. For those of you who don't know, you are using it pretty much every day -- at least when you are using computers, and more specifically encryption.

( Some interesting facts about phi that most mathematicians know but aren't telling... )

8801 lines of code written in the past three weeks, here's the breakdown ( Read more... )

There are three numbers in guppy counting.

Zero, as in none, as in an empty tank. Not much fun to watch.

One, as in lonely, as "hey! Where'd everybody go?" Still not much fun to watch.

Many, as in thousands, as in "Look at them swarm!" Lots of fun to watch. Especially after the succeeding generations start getting more and more colorful...

From a conversation regarding whining about securing one specific Internet protocol (while leaving some others insecure for now) :

"That's like saying that, just because we don't lock the cars, we shouldn't lock the house."