Wonders of the Internet, I
I suddenly wondered: was Andy Warhol ever a TV show guest star? So I asked the Goog, and the answer was better than I could have imagined: in October 1985, Andy Warhol was a guest star on The Love...
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Wonders of the Internet, II
We have had two of these plastic thingies cluttering up our dish drainer for years. We didn't know what they were but we didn't want to throw them away because what if they are important?I got tired of...
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Octopuses opening jars
A while back a YouTube video was going around titled Octopus Intelligence Experiment Takes an Unexpected Turn. Someone put food in a baby bottle with a screw cap and a rubber nipple. There was a hole...
View ArticleHelp me ask why you didn't just…
Regarding the phrase “why didn't you just…”, Mike Hoye has something to say that I've heard expressed similarly by several other people:Whenever you look at a problem somebody’s been working on for a...
View ArticleMJD's law
All programming languages are equally crappy, but some are more equally crappy than others.
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Soondubu victory
Katara and I are in a virtuous cycle where she thinks of some food she wants to eat and then asks me to cook it, I scratch my head and say "Well, I never did, but I could try", and then I do, and she...
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The least common divisor and the greatest common multiple
One day Katara reported that her middle school math teacher had gone into a rage (whether real or facetious I don't know) about some kids’ use of the phrase “greatest common multiple”. “There is no...
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Chalupas
A chalupa is a fried tortilla that has been filled with meat, shredded cheese, or whatever. But it is also the name of the mayor of Prague from 2002–2011. = Tortilla TomášThe boat-shaped food item is...
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