Note to future self: Don’t get haircut the week before important events take place. After my last day of work at GeoEye, I went to get my haircut at a nearby salon. I asked for it a little shorter. Between the time I gave this brief instruction, and the time she lifted her hands to [...]
Wear my Google t-shirt. Set my homepage to www.google.com Continually ask, “Have you met BillG? Where’s BillG? When can I see BillG?” Show off my bright blue iPod Nano “Upgrade” my workstation to Windows XP Then just format it and install Ubuntu Randomly shout “Yahoo!” as I walk through the halls Add my gmail address [...]
This kind of thing has happened to be a few times now, so I thought I’d share the fun. In one of our pieces of software we have a process that looks like this: void MyThread() { while (true) { DoFunctionA(); DoFunctionB(); SleepFor10Seconds(); } } While FunctionA and FunctionB are conceptually similar, they interact with [...]
Via Geekologie comes the hilarious tale of a man (boy, really) caught stealing NetFlix DVDs from a mailbox. The comments are funny, too. Some seem like they’re obviously written by the neighbor. One issue I didn’t really see addressed in the comments on the post is the overall issue of mail safety. People need to [...]
I just discovered this gem of a podcast. The Bugle is a podcast published by the Times Online. Better writing than the Onion, and funnier than the Daily Show. It’s basically two Brits being witty about the week’s news. I’ve only listened to episode one so far, but found myself laughing too hard to concentrate [...]
1. Write out all floating point values between 0 and 1. 2. Write tic-tac-toe in Brainf*&$ 3. What is 2128 in decimal? 4. Solve traveling salesman in constant time (O(1)) 5. How many grains of sand are there in the Sahara (at a given instant, assuming constant, well-defined boundaries)? 6. Implement quicksort on a spherically [...]
Found The Nerd Handbook via Phil Windley. I sent it to my wife and told her she needs to read it. A highly-accurate depiction of nerds, I would say. At least in the generalities… Technorati Tags: nerds,humor
With the talks in Annapolis this week between Middle East governments, peace is on a lot of people’s minds. A meeting like this, while it won’t solve anything immediately, does illustrate the point that you can’t reasonably talk and fight at the same time. With that in mind, I have a permanent solution. How do [...]
My father-in-law is absolutely fed up with telemarketers calling. But rather than just hang up on them, why not try to get some money out of them? So he made a recording, to be played next time he gets a call: Listen to this recording he made. Ok, it’s a long shot, but I think [...]
And they really do have all power. Specifically, they can hide and unhide nation-states at will! Don’t believe me? SPUtility.HideTaiwan Proof! Technorati Tags: Taiwan, Microsoft, API, Windows, SharePoint, humor, geopolitics
