Monthly Archives: March 2005
Sun! Warmth! Ice cream?
The snow (what pathetically little there was) is thawing rapidly. The sun warms us. Beers can be enjoyed outside. Which leads us to:
Ice cream season is now officially open. That’s your clue, peddlers: Turn on your damned soft-ice machines. …
Mimre mimre mimre.
Eg ve te Svalbard, eg,
te Svalbard med det samme.
Der har eg det som selen på flaket.
Mørkt og kaldt og isbjørn overalt.
I say, was that test double-blind?
Stumbled over a blog called Skeptico. Surprisingly, it’s a skeptic’s blog, meaning that it discusses dubious topics like astrology, psychic ability, magig/religious healing and other phenomena that, if true, can’t be explained by the body of knowledge and method …
Bone!
At soga om Bone er samla i eitt bind er opplagt ein God ting. Den påstanden held sjølv om ikkje alle sidesogene er med.
Einstein@Home
Einstein@Home is yet another distributed computer effort thingy. This one looks for gravitational waves. Not gravity waves, which is something completely different and well-understood and should have been called buoyancy waves. However, it’s impossible to spell buoyancy.
I see coffee, i see tea…
I have, of all things, now learnt that lukewarm coffee in my eye in uncomfortable. I feel rather relieved at not having learnt what hot coffee in my eye feels like.
GNOME 2.10. Whee.
GNOME 2.10 is out. Since somebody were kind enough to drop a list of a thousand or so place-names into GNOME 2.8, I had quite a bit of work last time doing very uninteresting translations in order to get …
Eller ute likevel?
Det virka jo lovande. Men finansieringa er like uviss som før. Og det er litt rart å senda folk e-brev som lågoppløyste gif-filer, vil eg påstå.
Kingdom of Loathing