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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.