Category Archives: Amusing

4 AM and Base 6

It’s 4am. I can’t sleep. Too much stuff to think about. Here’s a quick sampling of the sort of thing that I think about at this time of day before I have to be up for work in four hours. Lots of people say that we count in base 10 because we have 10 fingers. [...]

Too Many Books

I got a Kindle 2 for Christmas. Did you know that Google has books in the public domain scanned in, and you can download them in EPUB format, load them right on and go to town? Isn’t that just awesome?! Consider this: Right now, Google has over 7.5 million books scanned written in English and [...]

0xDEADBEEF Does Not Exist

Up until this weekend, I was completely convinced that the 0xDEADBEEF was more a programming joke than an actual system error message. This weekend, I learned a lot. Was reloading the wife's grandmother's computer after a particularly nasty crash. When I attempted a Windows repair install, the mythical 0XDEADBEEF reared its ugly head not once, [...]

Aaahhhhhhh, Yeah

Crazy Sprinkler Lady

I don't normally post stuff like this, but hoo boy. tom See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.