July 2009 | wodeces

Friday, July 31, 2009

Understocked

My biology grad student friends tell me that different types of alcohol don't actually have different effects. I trust their expertise, not because of the 'biology' part, but because of the 'grad student'.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Lease

You should talk to the girl down the hall; I think you'd like her. Lemme know if you find out why she's ordering all those colored plastic balls.

Monday, July 27, 2009

Avoidance

Hobby: seeing how many menu selections you can get someone to go through before they realize you're not an automated system and/or hang up.

Friday, July 24, 2009

Woodpecker

If you don't have an extension cord I can get that too. Because we're friends! Right?

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Threesome

I wanted us to try finding an approximate numeric solution, but noooo.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Estimation

They could say "the connection is probably lost," but it's more fun to do naive time-averaging to give you hope that if you wait around for 1,163 hours, it will finally finish.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Disaster Voyeurism

Hurricane forums are full of excited comments about central pressure and wind speed and comparisons to Camille and 1931 and 1938, with hastily-tacked-on notes about how it will be tragic if anyone dies and they hope it's a dud.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Sheeple

Hey, what are the odds -- five Ayn Rand fans on the same train! Must be going to a convention.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Tab Explosion

Cracked.com is another inexplicable browser narcotic. They could write a list of '17 worst haircuts in the Ottoman Empire' and I'd read through to the end, then click on all the links at the end.

Friday, July 10, 2009

Form

'This space intentionally left blank' is less immediately provocative but more Hofstadterially confusing.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

2038

If only we'd chosen 1944-12-02 08:45:52 as the Unix epoch, we could've combined two doomsday scenarios into one and added a really boring scene to that Roland Emmerich movie.

Monday, July 6, 2009

Cutting Edge

I remember trying to log in to the original Command and Conquer servers a year or two back and feeling like I was knocking on the boarded-up gates of a ghost town.

Friday, July 3, 2009

Extrapolating

By the third trimester, there will be hundreds of babies inside you.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Qwertial Aphasia

If this were SMBC, the alt-text drawing thingy would be a giraffe hooker fluttering her eyelashes.