Winter’s Haven

One of the first things I plan to do once I become fabulously rich is to hire a personal orchestra to follow me around and play appropriate background music. For example, I am, right now, handily knocking out nasty technical math problems. And while math is certainly its own reward, think how much better it [...]

In fact, it likes tea so much that it was quite unwilling to relinquish the package I received from the Indigo Tea company. Ultimately, I outwitted the headstrong mailbox, and am now enjoying the spoils of victory.
(Yes, there’s a story here to be told about the poor mechanical design of my mailbox. But really, [...]

It’s snowing!

The problem: It’s cold and wet outside, and my desire go to cycling has consequentially disappeared.
The solution: Dance to progressive rock (such as this, or this, or this). It’s fun, fast, and exhausting. Also, figuring out how to dance to “experimental” music can be a challenge in itself.

…for people who don’t comment their code. As a user, I admire the developers who built Wesnoth, but as a programmer / theologian, I fear for their souls.

The Economist suggests that you hedge your happiness. It’s simultaneously hilarious, and a good idea. Anyone want to gamble money that I still won’t have any job offers in a month?

In an attempt to move my several financial accounts to a single bank, I opened a new pair of checking and savings accounts with WaMu.
Banks continually monitor their accounts with a variety of automatic tools designed to detect fraudulent activity. I managed to inadvertently trip WaMu’s fraud detection system, a system which is — quite [...]

The rain falls hard. Watch it hit the asphalt. Relax your eyes and see the illusion of motion: like hundreds of ants flitting to and fro.
I wonder just where this aliasing enters into the brain’s visual processing.

Anyone who hasn’t already seen it should immediately watch the video showing what the Chaos Lab at UT Austin managed to do with corn starch and water. (Ok, they actually call themselves the “Center for Non-Linear Dynamics”, but “Chaos Lab” is a much better name, and “chaos” is the name of the group’s subdomain.) If [...]

This one managed to slip past SpamAssassin:
Hi,
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Your attitude is unacceptable. Answer my question or be punished.
that everyone is going to play?

Even if I was wanting to buy some Viagra, that email would really kill the mood.