Despite being on the wimpy side, the Honda Fit is impressing me by how well it handles. It feels very go-kart-like in its lightness, easy transitions, and steering precision. I think I actually find it more fun than my previous car (1998 Honda Prelude), which had nearly twice the horsepower, but felt heavy. (Mainly because it was heavy ( Read more... )

Big day for hospitals today. First I took my girlfriend to the local ER, then when reinforcements (her parents) arrived a few hours later, I scooted back home to bring my cat to the vet (whose establishment is called " Animal Hospital ( Read more... )

If I were Emperor of the World, instead of having separate bathrooms for men and women, I'd have separate bathrooms for clean users and dirty users. (Fortunately, emperors of the world do not have to worry about things like implementation details. Then again, emperors of the world can simply make one of the bathroom categories "emperors of the ( Read more... )

It's xkcd again. The mouseover text pushed me over the edge into audible laughter.

Spaghetti boxes that have a tab-in-slot mechanism for reclosing (as opposed to requiring you to supply your own tape, clip, rubber band, etc.).

There’s a rhyme meant to help people remember how to spell certain words: ‘i’ before ‘e’, except after ‘c’. I believe whoever made this up really just wanted people to spell “receive” correctly. Ignoring for a moment that some people have learned refinements to this rhyme, I just wanted to list a few exceptions (compiled with the help of Python ( Read more... )

Quite some time ago I mentioned that I had a noteworthy story from Kentucky. Here is that story ( Read more... )

I'm bummed out because my dad's retina detached over the weekend. He had surgery Tuesday morning to reattach it, and it went according to plan, but he still can't see out of that eye. It may have re-detached; it may be that he needs additional recovery or work done; or it may be that the retina is beyond help ( Read more... )

I have just failed miserably at reading this article, which is a book review of sorts. The book being reviewed is an apparently popular reference for the C programming language ( Read more... )

This is a beautifully executed and fully functional* physical rendition of a Turing machine. Even the ones and zeros are gorgeous. It's like an Apple iTuring machine.

*You could almost say it's anatomically correct. However, its tape is only 1000 feet long, rather than infinite.