“The Case for Keeping a Clunker”
It seems that I have a good excuse for keeping my ’96 Corolla on the road — I’m not being cheap, I’m being green! 😉
Archive of entries posted on June 2010
“Geek alphabet”
Very neat. I love the geeky Portal reference in the picture too. Now all I need are a few young geeklets, so I can teach them their alphabet with this. 😉
Speaking of dumb people…
…I’m sure by now you’ve heard about lawmaker Joe Barton’s oil-money-fueled apology to British Petroleum earlier this week. He was later forced by his own political party to retract it, but that hasn’t stopped incensed citizens from coming up with mocking sites like this one. This is definitely both amusing and appalling. I, for one, …
“Confident dumb people”
We all know them, and politics in the last decade has had some notable representatives of the species. Now you can start to understand why they’re so confident. It’s not just dumb people. Most beginning programmers, for instance, are incredibly confident after only a few months of learning (and yes, I was one of them …
Saving the Perfect Keyboard
I spent more than a decade trying different keyboards, looking for one that was just right. I had a picture of it in my mind: it had quiet, short-travel keys, like the keyboards on a laptop. It didn’t have an attached numeric keypad — between a right-handed mouse and a numeric keypad, a standard keyboard …
“Brain Management”
It seems that my frequent bouts of programming may have something to do with my lack of desire to socialize most of the time. From The Dilbert Blog: […] During one period of my life I wrote a number of computer programs that involved intense manipulation of objects in my mind, for hours each day. …
“Color perception among XKCD readers”
“I weep for my gender.”
“Key Star Trek tri-corder boffinry breakthrough”
I always wanted a real tricorder. 😉
“Unbelievable Luck: Tugboat Pulls-off an Impossible Maneuver”
The title says it all. I don’t know if this is real or not (though I suspect it is), but “unbelievable” describes it well.
“Remembering things changes your memory of those things?”
Interesting research. Not surprising though, I noticed a long time ago that some of my memories — things that I know are actual events — have gotten mixed up in my head with things that I also know didn’t happen at the same time.