And that’s all there is to it. No not really. Science does produce some fun and most certainly useless things (see picture).
I don’t really care about those right now. I just read that right after reading about the Italian scientists who have found a (theoretical) way to give earthquake warnings of 15 [...]
Proposals for the newest Web 2.0 site seem to outnumber even horrible misuses of mathematical terms these days. In a recent email, I read the following paragraph.
Would you, your colleagues, or anyone under your tutelage like to become
part of a revolutionary team developing the next generation social and
professional networking/engineering web portal? Are you [...]
Has anyone besides me noticed an over-abundance of ridiculous math metaphors? I was sitting in class today and my very well-know professor put forth a nuanced and complex argument on the subject of collaboration during World War II. He has his own theories of “collaborationism” and pulls forth meticulously gathered statistics and carefully researched points.
Now [...]
I’m getting absolutely railed in my Yahoo! fantasy football league. It was an auto-draft, and I got whoever I got. I think I updated in week two and then again today (Week 11). I have almost no interest in changing my team every week, paying attention to scouting reports or really caring [...]
I’m sitting here during my “job” when I noticed a funny thing. I seemingly partially aware comptuer user was trying to print from the Mac Desktop Publishing System. She had a Word document open, and I only noticed when she had gotten up, went to both printers, come back, sat down, gotten up [...]
My professor just said, in repsonse to a comment by a student, that he was 96% right. The porfessor then asked a follow up, which the student couldn’t answer, and he said, ‘You’re four tenths away from there. Or 4%’. Now it is possible and even likely that that was a slip [...]
“I hate people that blog. Why do they think anyone cares?” – Me
Yes, I said that. And yes, I even meant it, at the time. I resisted the web 2.0 fad of starting your own blog, for a long, long time. Yeah so it’s free, and easy, and everyone’s doing it, [...]
So I’m trying this out. I hope this pictures winds up at the top left, and not the crappy bottom like it looks like it will now. Probably need to drop a ‘clear=’ or something. I’ll deal with it later. So, seeing as this is my first (real) post, I’ve decided not to say anything [...]
People that are Off-Putting
Do some people just force you not to listen to them. It’s pretty rare but does occasionally happen to me.
Some guy just came up and asked for a pen. I had one in my pocket but, and completely unconsciously, I decided I didn’t and told him so. i have no idea why, [...]