The other day I was driving around with Emily, and I mentioned to her the origin of the name and logo of Cisco Systems. I can’t remember how it came up, but it did. I’m constantly tinkering with stuff in my lab, so she knows what the logo looks like even though it isn’t her [...]
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We’ve had a more interesting winter than usual here in New England this year. Average snowfall in Boston is around 40 inches per year, and we’ve had nearly 70 this year (as of January) spread across 10 or so snowfalls. So I’ve had some time to watch how people react to snow (whether I like [...]
I was in an airport yesterday and, despite my best efforts, overheard a clip of a speech Obama was giving somewhere. He was rebutting against some sort of rumor that he was a Muslim, and stating he was brought up as a good and proper Christian of some flavor. At which point the audience cheers. [...]
Korean scientists have apparently cloned glow-in-the-dark cats. linky: I has a color They were showing vids of RedCat all day on CNN, and he does indeed glow red under UV light. His nose, eyelids, and parts of his ears specifically. GreenCat seems to glow all over. First: What the mother fuck? Second: Where can I [...]
So there’s this house near me. It steals holidays. 2 years ago around this time they put up a nativity scene in the barn they had connected to the house. Basically it was lifesize scarecrow-esque straw dolls all arranged in the proper fashion. They have it in the basement of this barn with the storm [...]
Pretty much everyone is used to getting spam by now. And it’s usually all the same, and usually pretty benign. Subject lines like “Enlarge your penis”, “Go up one chest size in a month, naturally!”, and stuff like that. As a guy it’s a little odd getting both emails back to back, but whatevs. It’s [...]
They need to mint a new set of dollar coins. It’d have a picture of a carwash on one side, and a quarter with a line through it and “For your convenience” embossed on the back. I don’t know what the connection is between carwashes and the dollar coin is, but they have it for [...]
