Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution.

One of the memories that stuck with me of my first trip to San Francisco was being on Haight street at dusk, and seeing this guy in a suit and tie with a leather briefcase running to catch a bus.(*) There was a homeless guy chasing after him(**) yelling "Run! Run! Your miserable life is trying to catch up to you ( Read more... )

Here's a thought - For Powerball: MatchPayoffProbability.. of 1. total probability 5/1Jackpot1 in 146,107,962.00.000000006
5/0$200.0001 in 3,563,608.83.0000003 4/1$10,0001 in 584,431.85.000002 4/0$1001 in 14,254.44.00007 3/1$1001 in 11,927.18.00008 3/0$71 in 290.91.0003 2/1$71 in 745.45.001 1/1$41 in 126.88.007 0/1$31 in 68.96.01
Or, to put it ( Read more... )

Particularly since the models tend to be expensive AND easy to break, which strikes me as a really bad combination. However, a flying lawnmower looks so cool that it almost changes my mind.

"Actually, I think if all higher math professors had to write for the Simple English Wikipedia for a year, we'd be much better shape academically." - XKCD's alt text for today.

So you think your schooling's phoney
I guess its hard not to agree
- Supertramp (Bloody well right)

Before I looked the lyrics up, I thought it said funny, and - since I'm sitting here trying to puzzle out a growth order for tortured concepts like (sqrt(log(n))) and (2^2^n), I couldn't have agreed more ( Read more... )

The ones where the guy beats the crap out of the woman, she's ready to {shoot, disembowel, caponize, whatever} him, and he says "But honey, you know I still lurve ya!" - and she gives in?

Yeah, that's how I feel about Palm at this point.I'm sitting here after trying to switch to Windows Mobile and failing, looking at the the Pre and going " ( Read more... )

Chocolate Cake Commandments

1. Thou shalt have no other desserts before me.
2. Thou shalt not make for thyself any chocolate cakes with artificial sweeteners: Thou shalt not bake them, nor serve them: for I chocolate cake am a jealous sweet, visiting tofu and molasses upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing ( Read more... )

About sixty-five million years ago(Spring '08 semester?), I was doing some homework for my Foundations of CS class, and I stumbled across this problem:48.7: Mouse and cheese. A block of cheese is made up of 3x3x3 cubes as in the figure (Imagine a rubik's cube). Is it possible for a mouse to tunnel it's way through this block of cheese by (a) ( Read more... )

Well, I done told you, if I do.