May 2007
48 posts
“children have been vicious, mean, little fuckers for generations”
– wow. someone should have told me before i started working camps 8 years ago. perhaps its a slight exaggeration. but some kids certainly seem to be… (from violent acres)
apple vs harley tattoos →
from the bachelor guy
a pandigital number →
is an integer that in a given base has among its significant digits each digit used in the base at least once
poland says teletubbies are gay →
python swallows alligator and then explodes! →
video game console history in images →
“i spent most of my money on fast cars, booze and women, the rest i just...”
– george best
recycle your cell phone →
WatchPhotoshopping A Big Girl
geek quiz! →
i’m somewhere in the 80-90% range. sad i know. sorry margot.
smash bros brawl: new site! →
killing a toyota: part 2b →
Watchyay for processing! really nice work here. (from flight404)
mike: i am a dead cockroach.
everyone else: what???
“for the first 6 weeks dave is theoretically taking time out of his challenging...”
– from lyths in sierra leone
“all the works of microsoft. smurfs, ewoks, and other forms of offensive...”
– things hackers detest and avoid. (from the jargon file)
alt.starwars.revengeofthesith →
incredible. btw, i’m terrible at making up stories and would have done a much better job than lucas did w/ episode III. or II. or I. long live the originals.
netflix mailer evolution →
“instead of having up and down buttons outside the elevators, there’s a...”
– on the new elevators in 7 world trade center (from joel on software)
google academic apps quiz →
Multiple Object Tracking →
heh. really cool. 3 is easy, 4 is surprisingly hard! old german coach i had at regional 1 soccer camp (best players from 13 eastern seaboard states) back at age 17 said great players should be able to keep track of at least 2/3 of the 22 players on the field at all times. he had us train by yelling ‘freeze’ and we’d all have to close our eyes, and point out the nearest (say) 5...
“saying that java is nice because it works on all os’s is like saying that...”
– alanna (from programming quotes)
“at my high school, a couple of guys made a map of campus for half-life – as...”
– wow. americans going waaaay over the top again. the kid was perhaps unwise, but dangerous? terrorist? wtf? (from fortbendnow.com)
“in 1978 kellogg’s special k had 9.6g of sugar per 100g, but this has now nearly...”
– from the times online
“how can you be unhappy saving lives, sleeping around, and doing drugs?”
– the hot 26-year-old nutritionist talking to gregory house
“as you may now be aware, the word “university” was misprinted on the...”
– wtf? seems a little unbelievable to me! and i thought this was a funny joke! (from an email cornell sent out to all 2007 seniors…)
dot illusion →
hot captcha →
“if we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research, would it?”
– albert einstein
“chemistry is like cooking, you just can’t lick the spoon!”
– scienceyear.com via margot
“spiderman = awesome.”
– me @ 3am, with a tiny bit of a paper still to finish…
(nearly) the end of a semester
me: i'm tired.
gordon: me too.
“TCP/IP: a kind of electronic esperanto”
– campbell-kelly and aspray, computer: a history of the information machine
