June 2011 | wodeces

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Google+

On one hand, you'll never be able to convince your parents to switch. On the other hand, you'll never be able to convince your parents to switch!

Monday, June 27, 2011

Hofstadter

"This is the reference implementation of the self-referential joke."

Friday, June 24, 2011

Unpickable

The safe is empty except for an unsolved 5x5 Rubik's cube.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Connoisseur

Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.

Monday, June 20, 2011

Ice

On the plus side, she wrote 'Welcome to the AAA Club!' in lipstick on the bathroom mirror, and left me a membership/roadside assistance card on the counter.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Core

If you're a geologist or geophysicist and you don't introduce yourself by saying your name, then gesturing downward and saying "... and I study that", I don't know what you're doing with your life.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Manual Override

I think you mean 'GNU Info Override'.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Magic School Bus

At my OLD school, we used Microsoft Encarta 2005.

Friday, June 10, 2011

Permanence

This hostname is going in dozens of remote config files. Changing a kid's name is comparatively easy!

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Worst-Case Shopping

Wait a minute. If I'm escaping from a submarine at 50 meters, then I'll *definitely* need a flashlight to find air pockets for gradual decompression on the way up. Time to start shopping professional dive lights.

Monday, June 6, 2011

The Cloud

There's planned downtime every night when we turn on the Roomba and it runs over the cord.

Friday, June 3, 2011

Ages

Every age: "I'm glad I'm not the clueless person I was five years ago, but now I don't want to get any older."

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Advertising Discovery

When advertisers figure this out, our only weapon will be blue sharpies and "[disputed]".