The Cave

Yoda says begun the book wars have

“If Da Vinci was alive today, he’d be eating microwave sushi, naked, in the back of a Cadillac with the both of us.” – Darwin Mayflower

Interesting: 0MQ (“Zero-Em-Queue”) is a messaging system that tackles these issues by taking a different approach. Instead of inventing new APIs and complex wire protocols, 0MQ extends the socket API, eliminating the learning curve and allowing a network programmer to master it in a couple of hours. The wire protocols are simplistic, even trivial. Performance [...]

A husband and wife were sitting watching a TV program about psychology and explaining the phenomenon of “mixed emotions”. The husband turned to his wife and said, “Honey, that’s a bunch of crap. I bet you can’t tell me anything that will make me happy and sad at the same time.” She said: “Out of [...]

Snicker: Monster? Ha! A cheap fabrication for those who don’t know better. Ever since I switched to triple platinum-plated (no cheap gold here!) Pear Anjou cables, the colors on my monitor have been much deeper, richer and more vibrant, truly life-like! That’s because they have a proprietary hybrid geometry, and the platinum plating provides ultra-low [...]

Pretty much my read too.

Genius! I’ve long since upgraded from this unique Buffalo 300gb USB 2.0 external hard disk, and now my loss can possibly be yours, too. I bought this disk around 2005, and it was amazingly massive at the time. What wonderful times we had! Happily storing and retrieving everything I sent over her 480mbit/sec high-speed USB [...]

Snicker:

From here: I remember the first time I saw a sign that said $1,000 for littering (I live in California). At first I thought nothing of this until I later saw a sign, in the same town, that said $271 fine for running a red light at a busy intersection. Now, This was years ago [...]

Graphical representation of the gravity wells for the various bodies in the solar system. IOW, neat shite.

“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. [...]

Sounds good on paper, but:

From here: As strange as it may seem, there actually is precedence for 8-bit bytes… in Currency of all places. The Spanish Milled Dollar was often split into eight pieces to make change. Hence the term “Pieces of Eight.” However, for whatever reason, those were often termed bits in the US. So, there were 8 [...]

“To keep you from abusing a lamp cord when you decide the time has come.”