On a side note, I started work at Stratagen last week. They're a company that works on scheduling software for driving companies- like the little boxes you see in a taxi or a shuttle telling them who to pick up. They've got some interesting bits to work on.

I know I think about money a different way than most of my friends. I handle money a _very_ different way from most of my friends. I thought it might be interesting for me to try to explain what's formed the base of my money logic so people can see where it came from ( Read more... )

Recently I've discovered that I'm effectively lactose intolerant. Also, lact-aid doesn't seem to help. Considering how much of my diet was cheese, this is a rather depressing bit of news ( Read more... )

It's a vaguely common literary situation (in that I can think of one off the top of my head and it does not seem strange that there would be more)- the main hero visits another planet, and the aliens are so enamored of the character, they give him one of their young (generally in the form of an egg that will hatch) to take back with him ( Read more... )

Recent math problem that's interesting enough to stick in my head but not interesting enough to solve ( Read more... )

Thought experiment of the day ( Read more... )

My life is awesome.

Just thought people should know.

Every once in a while I find myself amused by another new webgame. The last few days it's been www.playnileonline.com. It's in beta and has a brief waiting period to try to keep down spikes of traffic, but it's amusing me. Other than an awkward situation where the economy's still getting started so some people are doing better than others based on ( Read more... )

I figure I should explain where I was coming from for that poll about skill, since it kind of needs a little more explanation than that. As a child, I believed that everybody had _something_ that they were best in the world at- some talent that made them _them_, regardless of how stupid or useless it might be. If nothing else, they're the best at ( Read more... )

Poll On skill