On not winning the Nobel Prize I am sure that everyone here, making a speech will know that moment when the faces you are looking at are blank. Your listeners cannot hear what you are saying: there are no images in their minds to match what you are telling them. In this case, of a […]
Category Archives: cool stuff
Not me!
Friday, November 2, 2007
(also not me, though i met the guy at a gaming convention in Calgary once)
A quote
Friday, October 12, 2007
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” – Napoleon
On a similar subject
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
An example of a more advanced civilization than ours: National Public Toilet Map (Australia)
Stuff i like, this year
Friday, August 24, 2007
Cool, if i can make another of these entries at last, i must be getting back into the swing of blogging.
Heavy Economics
Thursday, August 23, 2007
On the Efficiency of AC/DC: Bon Scott vs. Brian Johnson (pdf) (via Metafilter)
Tell it like it is, Liz
Sunday, August 19, 2007
That’s Liz as in Liz Phair. http://www.visi.com/~lazlo/liz/article.html#kids BRANDY [Age 10]: I am…Brandy…Are you really famous? LIZ PHAIR [Age 27]: I’m moderately famous. I’m somewhere-like, if you picture it as constellations in the sky-you know there’s the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper. I’m sort of like that, what is that “W” one? Cassiopeia. […] LAUREN: […]
Wack “picture”
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
The Zoomquilt You’ll just have to look at it, i can’t really give a descriptive sample.
Saint Fred
Friday, June 1, 2007
15 Reasons Mister Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever Amazingly, within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”
Engineering as it should be done
Saturday, April 21, 2007
THE FIFTY-NINE-STORY CRISIS What’s an engineer’s worst nightmare? To realize that the supports he designed for a skyscraper like Citicorp Center are flawed–and hurricane season is approaching. So he fixed it.
