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Well, that went both better and worse than expected
Last week, AutoZone sent me $30 in gift cards, thanks to the "buy $100 worth of stuff online, get a gift card" promotion they were running when I bought all those brake parts and shocks ( Read more... ) -
I must be bored.
A conversation from Yahoo Messenger. The bot's words were in pink on purple, for context.
I'm fascinated, seeing this in Courier as I post it, that "she" has a tendency to swap capital I and lowercase L. What's the point of that? Is it so their bots can recognize each other and call it off?
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Today's media rant
Everyone's heard of Bananagrams. How many have heard of Syzygy?
Apparently NPR hasn't. It's not clear whether the purported inventors of Bananagrams have or not, but if they have they're probably not telling. -
Another media rant
I was listening to NPR yesterday on the way to work, so it would have been Morning Edition. Specifically, this story.
Listen to it, or read the transcript (the transcript, not the writeup at the link.) then come back.
So, this Marc Salem guy, the "pick a number" guy. I assumed he's a professional mentalist. (And, in fact, he isAnyway, the routine ( Read more... ) -
Chalk Walk 2011 recap
So. Chalk Walk. I think everyone who reads my journal here is also a friend on Facebook, but for various reasons (tagging, searchability, trust issues with Facebook, etc.) I want to talk about Chalk Walk here, too. Even if you've already seen Facebook, stick around; I'm gonna try to put the whole experience down in words here, in a much more ( Read more... ) -
MythBusters and pizza
I'm watching a DVRed episode of MythBusters. Pizza Hut paid to sponsor this episode, and they made a special MythBusters-specific commercial with the build team ( Read more... ) -
Hey, whaddya know, I'm not alone...
The new applications for gestural control in smart cellphones (notably the iPhone and the Android) and the coming arrival of larger screen devices built upon gestural operating systems (starting with Apple's iPad) promise even more opportunities for well-intended developers to screw things up.
From here, which you should definitely read if you find ( Read more... ) -
Another thing Nokia gets and Apple doesn't
Cheap digital alarm clocks snooze for nine minutes because they're actually snoozing for 32,768 (2 to the 15th power) cycles of the 60 Hertz power line. It's not because nine minutes is some kind of magical sleepy number.
If you're creating a software alarm clock, it's okay to make it snooze for ten instead. -
Chai Experiment
I have done an experiment (not much of an experiment, but I'll take what I can get) and it has been a success. So that I don't forget, I'm putting it here ( Read more... )