3-year-old’s initial reaction to seeing Windows 8: “Where are the buttons?”
Asides
Hey, I can show J a lunar eclipse in April!
Hey, I can show J a lunar eclipse in April! The last one visible from this area happened when he was way too young to appreciate it.
Using an easily-disproved false claim as the hook to make your point doesn’t bolster it. It makes me wonder what else you’ve lied about.
Using an easily-disproved false claim as the hook to make your point doesn’t bolster it. It makes me wonder what else you’ve lied about.
If “avoid highways” results in shorter trip times, those routes should be prioritized over the freeway routes to begin with.
If “avoid highways” results in shorter trip times, those routes should be prioritized over the freeway routes to begin with.
You know, it seemed to me that three hops from a “suspicious” user would encompass way too many people…
You know, it seemed to me that three hops from a “suspicious” user would encompass way too many people to be a meaningful limit. Someone actually did some math on real data. It turns out that a lot of numbers are connected through common hubs of activity…like, say, T-Mobile’s voicemail number, or Skype. If suspicious user X ever checked voice mail on the same carrier you have, you’re only two hops away.
Great contrast: WordPress’ weekly photo challenge theme is “Grand.” FlickrFriday’s is “Noodles.” There’s got to be a way to combine them!
Great contrast: WordPress’ weekly photo challenge theme is “Grand.” FlickrFriday’s is “Noodles.” There’s got to be a way to combine them!
Ha! Phishing scam email claims fraud detected on my “4xxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx VISA” HOW DID THEY KNOW???? :-D
Ha! Phishing scam email claims fraud detected on my “4xxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx VISA” HOW DID THEY KNOW????
Some perspective on questions that always seem to come up with any new technology.
Some perspective on questions that always seem to come up with any new technology.
Thought you might find the name of this blog interesting
Thought you might find the name of this blog interesting: hesperusisbosphorus.wordpress.com
No Coincidences
Comment on PAD’s Coincidence in Fiction
I love the take on Les Miserables. I’ve been re-reading the book, and the coincidences are just astonishing.
Things like Cosette starting to give up on Marius and catching a glimpse of a soldier, who just happens to be Marius’ cousin. The Thenardiers’ younger sons are taken in by a former servant of Marius’ grandfather, then get lost and picked up by Gavroche.
My favorite is probably the point at which one of Thenardier’s associates decides to mug some random guy who turns out to be Jean Valjean, on the street outside Marius’ friend’s house, while Gavroche is watching from the bushes.
There actually is a part in the novel where Eponine is manipulating various groups of people. The question is, should that be worked into Valjean’s sister’s spy network? Or is she an opposing force? Hmm…
Note: same ground mostly covered in Padded and No Such Thing as Coincidence
Dora the Explorer finds a pack of compys on the beach??
Kiddo is watching a dinosaur episode of Dora the Explorer. They find a pack of compys on the beach. I read that book, and it didn’t go well for the kid who found them.
Ugh. So apparently, getting court-approved access to records wasn’t enough for the NSA. They’ve…
Ugh. So apparently, getting court-approved access to records wasn’t enough for the NSA. They’ve tapped the links between datacenters within Google’s and Yahoo’s internal networks. Google, for their part, has already started moving toward encrypting traffic on their internal net.
J: Get off the planet!
J: Get off the planet!
(Regarding a solar system rug I was sitting on.)
Always worth remembering when you see an article claiming an huge % increase in
Always worth remembering when you see an article claiming an huge % increase in some risk.
Top 14 headlines you just won’t believe are real! (Because they aren’t.) The clickbait
Top 14 headlines you just won't believe are real! (Because they aren't.) The clickbait style, however, rings so, so true.
So, J apparently remembers something from when I tried to explain visual migraines…
So, J apparently remembers something from when I tried to explain visual migraines to him a while back. Just… not very clearly. “You grabbed your medicine to make your brain go back in you.”
You grabbed your medicine to make your brain go back in you
So, J apparently remembers something from when I tried to explain visual migraines to him a while back. Just… not very clearly. “You grabbed your medicine to make your brain go back in you.”
Wow. I got a Pinterest follow from someone who used to run a Les Mis fan newsletter I subscribed to back in the 1990s. #throwbackthursday
Wow. I got a Pinterest follow from someone who used to run a Les Mis fan newsletter I subscribed to back in the 1990s. #throwbackthursday
Heh heh…
Exchange dumpling tool
I have a note on my to-do list for “Exchange dumpling tool” and even though it's only been a day since we bought the defective kitchen implement, my brain keeps insisting on reading it as some sort of note about a debugging tool for Microsoft Exchange crash dumps.