January 2011 | wodeces

Monday, January 31, 2011

Learning to Cook

And yet I never stop thinking, 'sure, these ingredients cost more than a restaurant meal, but think how many meals I'll get out of them! Especially since each one will have leftovers!'

Friday, January 28, 2011

Consecutive Vowels

But the windows! What if there's a voyeur watchi-- wait, now I'm turned on too.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Local g

In Rio de Janeiro in 2016, the same jump will get an athlete 0.25% higher (>1cm) than in London four years prior.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Na

I hear that there are actual lyrics later on in Land of 1,000 Dances, but other than the occasional 'I said,' I've never listened long enough to hear any of them.

Friday, January 21, 2011

World According to Americans

It's not our fault we caught a group on their way home from a geography bee. And they taught us that Uzbekistan is one of the world's two doubly-landlocked countries!

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Complex Conjugate

Fun fact: if you say this every time a professor does something to a complex-number equation that drops the imaginary part, they'll eventually move the class to another room and tell everyone else except you.

Monday, January 17, 2011

3D

The LINACs in the glasses frames can barely manage one MeV. You should've gone to the screening at CERN.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Stingray Nebula

Eärendil will patrol the walls of night only until the sun reaches red giant stage, engulfing the Morning Star on his brow. Light and high beauty are passing things as well.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Dental Nerve

WAKE up in the MORning and my BREATH ain't PREtty / and noBODY'S gonna KISS me if my MOUTH smells SHItty / so I ALways brush my TEETH before I START on the JACK / sure, my DRINKing's out of HAND, but I'm conTROLLing my PLAQUE.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Modern History

During the week, I research my character by living in his house and raising his children.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Good Code

You can either hang out in the Android Loop or the HURD loop.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Misconceptions

'Grandpa, what was it like in the Before time?' 'It was hell. People went around saying glass was a slow-flowing liquid. You folks these days don't know how good you have it.'

Monday, January 3, 2011

Mark

I'm a solipsistic conspiracy theorist. I'm sure I must be up to something, and I will not stop until I find out what.