Jul
2nd
Thu
2nd
Jun
29th
Mon
29th
Ah, Australia
With more than a hint of double entendre, McManus asked: “How many times a day do you actually shake the sauce bottle?”
After a brief pause, Mr Rudd rejoined with: “Not often enough.”
(source)
Jun
9th
Tue
9th
Thanks to a comment on this page I now know that you can sing Emily Dickinson’s poems to the Gilligan’s Island theme, and that is now the only way I will ever think of them.
BECAUSE I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
(More foot-tappin’ stanzas)
BECAUSE I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
(More foot-tappin’ stanzas)
Jun
8th
Mon
8th
Some of my favourite man page command lines
Everyone has (been 14 and) giggled at “man touch”, but I like:man pow man screen man 2 write man strfrySadly the last one is Linux only.
May
29th
Fri
29th
Additional things to put on toasted pita bread triangles
Follow-up to this post.
1. Garlic flakes (or what have you), chili flakes, and pepper.
Actually the bread I use is called “Lebanese bread”. In Australia (at least), Lebanese bread (a.k.a. Syrian bread) is a lot flatter than “pita bread” — it’s totally unleavened. But apparently this isn’t the case everywhere. There is probably a fascinating etymology here that I am too full of delicious pita bread triangles to look into.
May
14th
Thu
14th
My crush on Jeri Ellsworth continues unabated as I find her Youtube channel. Here she hooks up a robot chicken head with Bluetooth and audio-synchronised beak movemements. “Tell me I’m smart, Ken!”
May
11th
Mon
11th
my favourite FORTRAN program reads:
REALITY, SANITY, and ME
STOP
END
— Anonymous comment. (Had to figure out how to indent Fortran to verify this one.)
Structure and Interpretation of Carefactor Online
Today, just out of interest, I decided to download the video lectures which accompany MIT’s famous Scheme-based SICP course. I used the torrents. The first one came down at about 800 kilobytes a second. Subsequent lectures are arriving at 7k/sec, with fewer peers. My conclusion is that one SICP lecture is all you need to drive you straight back to Python, but I’m hoping to be proven wrong.
(Of course, MIT themselves took 30 years…)
May
9th
Sat
9th
Sorry, Mr. Tanenbaum.
