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 …
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 …
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. …
“I weep for my gender.”
I always wanted a real tricorder. 😉
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.
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.
This may sound like something out of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but it’s closer to regeneration a la Dr. Who. Or rather, it’s the first step toward that staple of SF, cloned body parts to replace ailing originals. And better in this case, because you don’t have to grow a whole clone, with …
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It sounds daft when you first hear it, but when you think about it, it’s really quite an elegant solution.
Probably not, but it makes for some interesting ideas. A second photo confirms that the first hasn’t been doctored. Maybe he’s the one that left the tiny Swiss watch in the Chinese tomb? 😉