July 2010 | wodeces

Friday, July 30, 2010

University Website

People go to the website because they can't wait for the next alumni magazine, right? What do you mean, you want a campus map? One of our students made one as a CS class project back in '01! You can click to zoom and everything!

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Frogger

I understand you and your team worked hard on this, but when we said to make it more realistic, we meant the graphics.

Monday, July 26, 2010

Period Speech

The same people who spend their weekends at the Blogger Reenactment Festivals will whine about the anachronisms in historical movies, but no one else will care.

Friday, July 23, 2010

All the Girls

You know that I'll never leave you. Not as long as she's with someone.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

War

They offered to make me a green beret, but I liked my regular one. Although it gets kind of squashed under my helmet.

Monday, July 19, 2010

1996

College Board issues aside, I have fond memories of TI-BASIC, writing in it a 3D graphing engine and a stock market analyzer. With enough patience, I could make anything ... but friends. (Although with my chatterbot experiments, I certainly tried.)

Friday, July 16, 2010

Temper

Mr. Rogers projected an air of genuine, unwavering, almost saintly pure-hearted decency. But when you look deeper, at the person behind the image ... that's exactly what you find there, too. He's exactly what he appears to be.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Green Flash

$The exact cause of the phenomenon is unknown, but it's thought to be linked to atmospheric refraction and you getting a really cool car.$

Monday, July 12, 2010

Dilution

Dear editors of Homeopathy Monthly: I have two small corrections for your July issue. One, it's spelled "echinacea", and two, homeopathic medicines are no better than placebos and your entire magazine is a sham.

Friday, July 9, 2010

One Two

Cue letters from anthropology majors complaining that this view of numerolinguistic development perpetuates a widespread myth. They get to write letters like that because when you're not getting a real science degree you have a lot of free time. Zing!

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Workaround

I once worked on a friend's dad's computer. He had the hard drive divided into six partitions, C: through J:, with a 'Documents' directory tree on each one. Each new file appeared to be saved to a partition at random. I knew enough not to ask.

Monday, July 5, 2010

Analogies

I just call all of them 'synecdoche'.

Friday, July 2, 2010

DFS

A breadth-first search makes a lot of sense for dating in general, actually; it suggests dating a bunch of people casually before getting serious, rather than having a series of five-year relationships one after the other.