Went for a stroll this afternoon. Saw a hairy enteater. It was cute, friendly, and, I'd estimate, a little over two and a half miles tall.

I didn't know they came this far North.

I've long been of the view that in higher education we do our evaluation backwards: that how students allocate their energies between their various classes should be up to them, and that therefore the crucial role of examinations ought to be for pre-screening the students before they are admitted to courses, not to evaluate them on the way out. ( Read more... )

Ooh! What a nice little film.

No, really.

I learned yesterday that eigenvectors are the opposite of lobster salad. Or, at any rate, they have been until recently.

Now, as you might not expect, this is actually true. Really, it is.

Unfortunately, I can't tell you how I know, because it's a secret.

Unicode 6.0.

U+1F648 Unicode character SEE-NO-EVIL MONKEY! 🙈🙈🙈🙈

I kid you not.

Some day soon it will appear here! 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈

Ran into Thad Starner on the shuttle today. I think wearable would be here, finally, if we could engage the fashion industry adequately....

Then again, I've thought that for a long time.

...And of course I've been working at Google since Monday. I guess that's news.

As of today, I'm legally empowered to drive a car. If the recent wikileaks documents were not enough to persuade you of the poor decision-making processes in the US government, then this surely should be.

One day Archimedes was strolling in the market place when someone said, hey! There goes Archimedes, whose wife is as fat as a whale! Archimedes, being a philosopher, then wondered, how fat is a whale, anyway? So he got a whale and put it in his bathtub. This experiment did not go entirely well, and Archimedes was heard to cry, Eureka! which is ( Read more... )