Just too good

I hate it when I buy something and don't like it. Like a drink. Even worse is when I buy a whole case.

The chemists that came up with Melon did a good job. Too good. Who drinks melon juice anyways????

Math help from those nice guys at the IRS

Say you need to solve a quadratic equation, but can't remember that formula from high school; or were never really that good with formulas anyways. No problem. The nice people at the IRS have come out with: IRS Form QF.

Never say the government isn't looking out for you.

Its soo slow

I don't really know how the world lived before 100bT. Maybe it was because large hard drives were 20MB. (That's MB not GB, its the one that came after kB.) Now we have 200GB drives, and its taking forever to transfer the data off the old one onto the new one.

This is of course because the new one is in a USB enclosure which is hooked up to a laptop that does not know about the wonderful world of 2.0, so I'm stuck at 11mbit/sec theoretical (which translates into longer than I want to wait, for transfering 100+GBs).

I'd really like to have a laptop with USB2.0, of course, then I'd need 1GbT ethernet too, and a different network switch, and PCI-express, and a new graphics card, and a bigger screen that could use it, and ...

Beautiful pictures

With four years of engineering drafting in my distant educational experience, and decades doodling with online drawing tools, I can appreciate how much work doing a large illustration can be.

This is a nice image, even if its just some pedistrian GM 1.8L engine going in an Opel. Do people even buy that car anymore? Oh well, I'll appreciate the probable months that went into creating a full size cut-away drawing of this thing.

This is pretty funny:

How many 5 year olds could you take on at once?

Ok, so they're not going to be black belt, but they're going to get a little bit of training, and all they have to do is knock you out. I know I have a hard time taking on my two kids (though I'm handi-capped by the consequence of having to pay the hospital bill when they end up in the emergency room), though some guys on the list think they can take on 30.

Another language to learn

Guy Steele, one of the wranglers of Lisp, and co-creator of Java (doesn't that sound like an odd mix?); is working on a new language. Its for scientists and others that want to get lots of computations done quickly (sounds like my kind of language).

Its called Fortress. Cool name.

There shall be consequences

My firstborne has finished off my fritos while I was not looking.

This does not bode well.

This will happen with kids.

Thanks to having multiple kids, I often find stange phrases wandering through my head.

Califlower

Sweet and Sour

About an hour

vegitales.

If you're a parent, you know what I'm talking about.

Its totally dead

What was a lame, almost dead, lasts five minutes, poor excuse for a battery has now totally kicked the bucket.

When I stick this battery in my laptop now, it just laughs at me, flashing a yellow light at my on-and-off constantly; saying, "You call this a battery? I wouldn't even run a cheap digital watch with this ..."

Rather cold.

I didn't want to leave the heat on in my basement while I was gone for a couple of days, so I shut it off. Probably a mistake as its 58F today down here. Brrrr.

So it doesn't always work

We once ruined the "design" of a trade show booth by taping pieces of white paper (with masking tape) to the slick black tops of the kiosks surfaces. Why? Because the optical mice wouldn't work otherwise.

I'm remembering this as I haplessly push around an optical mouse hooked to my laptop, sitting on a "fashionable" glass dining room table.

I forget

I was going to write something tonight, but by the time I got around to writing it; I couldn't remember what is was.

Dang it.