Open question…
by Chris on Jul.13, 2010, under Personal, Science
If anyone can explain what methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase duplication means, I’ll owe you a coke. The soda kind, not the Lindsay Lohan kind…
Christmas? In July?
by James on Jul.12, 2010, under Christmas, Rant
Holy hell!
No, seriously, this has gone to far, setting up for Christmas over five and a half months early. We are rapidly moving to the point where we’ll be seeing Christmas decorations all year round. Is this the world that we want our children to grow up in? A world where the Jingle Bell Rock is as inescapable as death and taxes?
I say no!
Drunk at the switch
by James on Jul.08, 2010, under News
Here’s a screen grab from this article on Politifact:
Notice the paragraph I highlighted in yellow. Suddenly, all sense of grammar and spelling are lost. I guess the author was stressed out and so he took a break, had a few shots, wrote that paragraph and then passed out, whereupon the article was finished by someone still sober.
UPDATE
They fixed it already, good thing there’s print screen.
Delusions
by James on Jul.07, 2010, under Rant
Now I do read Boing Boing, they have some interesting stuff from time to time. One thing, though, that I dislike is that the site’s founder, Cory Doctorow, seems to be batshit insane. He regularly makes position statements and then backs them up with evidence that either makes no sense or contradicts him.
Case in point. Apparently some lady stops to lecture kids on the benefit of selling their product instead of giving it away. Is she a douchebag if this actually happened, sure, they’re kids. Then Doctorow goes off on some weird tangent about companies taking stuff and then selling it. As evidence he says:
Sounds about right — companies take over our public aquifers and sell us the water they pump out of them; telcos get our rights of way for their infrastructure, then insist that they be able to tier their pricing without regard to the public interest.
A little bizarre. Most companies have to pay leases to the government to tap those aquifers. Even if they don’t, he’s free to drill his own well and even give it away if he wants, see how much money it’ll cost him to drill the hole, lay the pipes, pump the water and then maintain the whole damn system.
Then he complains about the phone company laying wires on his property. Once again, apparently this infrastructure is magically free in his world and apparently he’s hoping the phone fairy will come along and connect his calls.
It’s called TINSTAAFL (There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch), Cory. I learned it in high school econ.
Imperial Marches
by James on Jul.01, 2010, under Random
The Imperial March, a classic for the ages. Of course, upon reaching such legendary status, many others have taken a shot at rendering it.
On the steel drums (via Walyou):
Metallica has given it a shot:
Apparently the British Crown still has imperial ambition:
And for are grand finale, a more traditional orchestra, led by the Dark Lord of the Sith himself:
