Mon
Dec 12

A ferocious spider lives in the brain. His name is Willis! Note (Fig. 10) that he has a nose, angry eyebrows, two suckers, eyes that look outward, a crew cut, antennae, a fuzzy beard, 8 legs, a belly that, according to your point of view, is either thin (basilar artery) or fat (the pons, which lies from one end of the basilar artery to the other), two feelers on his rear legs, and male genitalia.

From Clinical Neuroanatomy made ridiculously simple, by Stephen Goldberg, M.D.

Tue
Dec 6

Every Little Helps

Tesco's slogan is "Every little helps".

Does this make sense? Every little what helps? "Gnome", perhaps? I hope it's "gnome". I hope Tesco has an army of little helpful gnomes.

Mon
Nov 28

The crocodilian doth protest too much, methinks


From the excellent Functional Programming in Qi, by Mark Tarver

Mon
Nov 28

How to annoy a computer programmer


Kebab shop near... no, the best kebab shop, near Old Street station.

Tue
Jun 21

Ready or not, computers are coming to the people.

That's good news, maybe the best since psychedelics.

Steward Brand, Rolling Stone, 1972 (via)

Fri
Jan 21

This is why Android will win.

Mon
Jan 17

An unpleasant realisation

When the robot uprising occurs, they're gonna kill the programmers first.

Sun
May 2

Poison Pie is a nicely appropriate name for these gastrointestinal irritants. Their alternative name, Fairy Cake Mushrooms, is misleading to the point of irresponsibility. (from "Mushrooms", by John Wright; image.)

Mon
Mar 29

Sydney's forecast for this week (my dissertation is due Wednesday) EDIT: This forecast turned out to be right :)

Sat
Mar 20

Idea: start a gym club for logicians. Call it "The excluded middle".

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