December 2008
41 posts
Are you hammered, sloshed or just tipsy? →
A proposal to start using slang in research papers to identify the degree of drunk - “sloshed,” “tipsy” and “wasted.”
A good start, but I still will not read papers on alcoholism until they use the word crunk.
What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About... →
Srinivasan Keshav, a professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo, explaining how SMS costs are so very little.
“Operating costs are relatively insensitive to volume,” he said. “It doesn’t cost the carrier much more to transmit a hundred million messages than a million.”
2009 is a "Leap Second" year →
By international agreement, the world’s timekeepers, in order to keep their official atomic clocks in step with the world’s irregular but gradually slowing rotation, have decreed that a Leap Second be inserted between 2008 and 2009.
Detroit using Canadian water since 1964 →
“Detroit has been taking water from the Canadian side of the river it shares with Windsor for the past four decades, without Ontario’s knowledge.”
And they’re taking our air too - I SEE IT.
“This is where the smart copywriter becomes a marketer.”
– Seth’s Blog: The power of smart copywriting
A BeTaMaXMaS - CBS Thanksgiving Parade →
This is so brilliant it brings a tear to my eye. Ah, the 80’s.
All good things...
I’ve had a very shitty day. Not shitty in the personal sense, but shitty with work stuff. I’m not going into detail because that’s mundane, misleading, and just not my style (at least not here).
So, in no particular order, here’s some things that I have appreciated throughout the day.
My microwave tells me “YOUR FOOD IS READY” on the display when it’s...