I’ve written before, many times, about my horrible face-blindness.
My son Sean recounts a recent misadventure:
Our first La Mirada Disc Golf Saturday trip this year began with Dad and I making our ritual trip to McDonald’s for sweet, sweet Egg McMuffin action. The drive-through line was packed, and time was running out, so we ran [...]
Clay Shirky has a wonderful short post on the Cognitive Surplus, and which, as a bonus, may nudge you to do something else, anything else, rather than passively consume more entertainment:
Did you ever see that episode of Gilligan’s Island where they almost get off the island and then Gilligan messes up and then they don’t? [...]
I saw this posted somewhere a few weeks ago. Still makes me laugh, because… Dude. Really. It’s OK.
I had been thinking of getting a LEGO Mindstorms set, but wasn’t sure how much they could do.
Then I saw on the web that a fellow named Hans Andersson had designed a Rubik’s Cube solver that uses only the LEGO Mindstorms NXT Retail Kit.
Watch the video!
My LEGO Mindstorms NXT set is now on [...]
…and like all of you, I could probably use a laugh about now.
“DOW drops 1000+ in last 3 sessions. The Bailout Goggles! They do nothing!”
–seen on a reddit.com headline mid-week.
“This is worse than a divorce. I’ve lost half my net worth and I still have a wife.”
–seen on The Times of London.
If anyone has [...]
It’s short, and is filled with good cautionary advice:
Converting Pi to binary: Don’t do it!
Who knew about the, e.g., child pornography risk?
A previously-unknown Swiss guy, Yves Kilchenmann, contacted me out of the blue about buying my old domain, livesystems.com, and eventually we agreed upon a price, which is enough to put me into, for instance, a nice LEGO robotics set (actually a Danish product, but very possibly what I’m going to spend the money on).
Their building, [...]
Yes, you can speculate on whether or not the hilariously unqualified GOP VP pick, Sarah Palin, will step down before the election:
How? Click on the graph to go to InTrade, and press the Trade button.
Graph displays recent action; all times in UTC:
The price is labeled on the right-hand axis, showing implied percent chance that the [...]
Microsoft is [obviously] not going out of business any time soon, but it’s gotten to be just too much of a hassle for them to continue to support their PlaysForSure Digital Rights Management scheme that they pushed on device manufacturers and customers for years, before deciding that it wasn’t good enough for their own Zune. [...]
It’s in French!
Ponette, a young girl, has recently lost her mother in an auto accident, but still sees her, sometimes.
Ponette (to the Dead Mom): Will you stay with me?
Dead Mom: No, I’m dead.
Ponette: Not anymore.
Dead Mom: I’m still a little dead.
The young actress, Victoire Thivisol, who plays Ponette, was discovered by director Jacques [...]