August 2011 | wodeces

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

I'm Sorry

You know I've always hated her.

Monday, August 29, 2011

Hurricane Names

After exhausting the OED, we started numbering them. When overlapping hurricanes formed at all points on the Earth's surface, and our scheme was foiled by Cantor diagonalization, we just decided to name them all "Steve". Your local forecast tomorrow is "Steve". Good luck.

Friday, August 26, 2011

Empirical

I'm as surprised as you!

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Juggling

Later: 'Why is there a book hovering over the trash can?'

Monday, August 22, 2011

Depth Perception

I've looked at clouds from both sides now.

Friday, August 19, 2011

Oversight

I felt so clever when I found a way to game the Fitocracy system by incorporating a set of easy but high-scoring activities into my regular schedule. Took me a bit to realize I'd been tricked into setting up a daily exercise routine.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Arrow

'The Return of the Boomerang' would make a great movie title.

Monday, August 15, 2011

T-Cells

'We're not sure how to wipe out the chimeral T-cells after they've destroyed the cancer. Though I do have this vial of smallpox ...'

Friday, August 12, 2011

TornadoGuard

The bug report was marked 'could not reproduce'.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Password Strength

To anyone who understands information theory and security and is in an infuriating argument with someone who does not (possibly involving mixed case), I sincerely apologize.

Monday, August 8, 2011

Missed Connections

The Street View van isn't going to find out anything Google won't already know from reading my email.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Mac/PC

It's fun to watch browsers fumblingly recapitulate the history of window management. Someday we'll have xmonad as a Firefox extension.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Tattoo

I calculate that the electrons in radiation therapy hit you at 99.8% of the speed of light, and the beam used in a 90-second gamma ray therapy session could, if fired with less precision, kill a horse (they did not let me test this).

Monday, August 1, 2011

CIA

It was their main recruiting poster, hung nearly ten feet up a wall! This means the hackers have LADDER technology! Are we headed for a future where everyone has to pay $50 for one of those locked plexiglass poster covers? More after the break ...