Two engineering students were walking across campus when one said, “Where did you get such a great bike?” The second engineer replied, “Well, I was walking along yesterday minding my own business when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike. She threw the bike to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, [...]
What is the difference between Mechanical Engineers and Civil Engineers? Mechanical Engineers build weapons; Civil Engineers build targets.
I’d never heard of this one before Rule 34 is an Internet adage in the “Rules of the Internet” list of protocols and conventions which asserts that if something exists, there is porn of it. The humorous concept is commonly illustrated through fanart and fanfictions in which fictional TV and cartoon characters engage in sexual behavior, in similar [...]
“The only difference between genius and insanity is that all the voices get along.”
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera inXile (Wasteland 2) folks are making a successor to Torment:Planescape Impressively, they hit their $1M funding target in 6 hours Only been 3(?) days and already racked up a large following 41,726 backers $2,289,517 pledged of $900,000 goal 27 days to go Stretch goals only out to $3M. I wonder what they’ll add after that
How fascinating: He was also the Father of the User Interface. He was the first to take human factors into consideration in the design or products. No, that goes back at least to the Gilbreths. Frank Gilbreth created time and motion study for industrial work. His wife, Lillian Gilbreth [wikipedia.org] was more on the product side. She [...]
Ugh. I just saw this today, thank you RedBox. Though I’m not so sure I should be thanking you. OK, if it was an original movie not based on 50 years of Marvel’s iconic superhero…it almost had me. If it was something cooked up in the bowels of Sony as some new original production, I [...]
It’ s a Star Trek parody of PSY – GANGNAM STYLE. It’s good to know, on your ‘best’ day, there are people in the world far nerdier than you’re ever likely to be. Bless their creative little hearts.
The bidding was proceeding furiously and strong, when the head auctioneer suddenly announced: ‘a gentleman in this room has lost his wallet containing ten thousand pounds. If returned, he will pay a reward of 2000 pounds.’ There was a moment’s silence in the auction house, from the back of the room came a shout ‘two [...]
My latest dabbling => APPDATA.EXE Disclosure: At the time of this writing I do work for Microsoft, but this has been a personal effort from my own app development and during my own time (late nights and weekends). This is built solely using public APIs and information. No secret sauce or special knowledge involved, just [...]
There’s a famous quote: Don’t get me wrong: Emacs is a great operating system – it lacks a good editor, though. –Thomer M. Gil or the commonly stated form: Emacs is a great operating system, now if only it had a good text editor. Apparently that day has come: Of course, since you can now run vi [...]
Slashdot has their usual quick synopsis and links to the official announcement and feature list. Still wading through the feature list, but PEP 393: Flexible String Representation andPEP 412: Key-Sharing Dictionary promise nice perf gains for most folks w/zero effort. PEP 397: Python Launcher for Windows and PEP 3151: Reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy also caught my [...]
I’ve hehard this for a while, and the discussions about the shortfall and need to possibly end Saturday delivery service. It turns out the reason isn’t the obvious: Ignoring the fact that the USPS is only broke because Congress is trying to kill it by forcing them to pre-pay 75 years worth of pensions. Without [...]
The CEOs of Budweiser, Coors, and Guinness get together for lunch. When the waitress comes to take their drink orders, the CEO of Budweiser orders a Bud. The CEO of Coors follows suit and orders a Coors. The CEO of Guinness looks at the waitress and orders one Coors and one Budweiser. The other two [...]
Best explanation I’ve found: John Gruber at Daring Fireball makes the best case I’ve seen [daringfireball.net] for explaining the timing; that their contract would expire mid-way through the iOS6 cycle and Apple would be forced to re-negotiate “with their backs against the wall”. Or in other words, the contract would not have lasted until iOS7 comes [...]
This video explains how 2-party encryption works, in simple (non-technical) terms. Very cool.
My latest dabbling => Hasher.WF Data sources include text, files and random bytes. Drag’n’drop of files and text is supported too! The results can be saved to a file in various formats: text, CSV, XML and JSON. There’s a few more things I’d like to do (in no particular order): Save settings More hash algorithms [...]
