The “Political Compass” project by the IEDPQ organization is quite interesting for a test and manages to do not only a qualitative appraisal of political ideas but also a quantitative one through measuring the importance of various subject versus the subject’s answer.
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(from www.geekoftheday.com )
% cat “food in cans”
cat: can’t open food in cans
% nice man woman
No manual entry for woman.
% rm God
rm: God nonexistent (more…)
Q: How many Windows users does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: One, but she/he’ll swear up and down that it was TWICE as easy for him as it would be for a Linux user.
A: One to run the wizard , or call support if there is no wizard.
Q: How many Linux users does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: sudo apt-get install lightbulb (more…)
(I do not know who wrote it originally, since it wasn’t me, but must be a crazed genius, giving praise to Edgar Alan Poe’s “Raven”)
Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bed sheets, still I sat there doing spreadsheets.
Having reached the bottom line I took a floppy from the drawer,
I then invoked the SAVE command and waited for the disk to store,
Only this and nothing more. (more…)
The TV series CSI has made a theme of using songs of the world-famous band “The Who” as their intro songs. “Las Vegas” has “Who are you” of the same-name album, “New York” has “Baba O’Riley” (only God knows what this song has to do with the subject of the movie) while “Miami” has “We won’t get fooled again” (rather ironic since Horatio Caine never gets fooled, not even when he loses, which is also very rare). (more…)
Elections in US have come and gone. Today the people of the US have chosen to repair the damage done by Bush and his cronies.
I’ve threaded this subject quite a few times on my blog and I’m going to do it yet again, but this time not about the US elections (those are already done and done, all we can do now is light a candle so that the Constitutional Court won’t come to play). Instead, I’m going to pick on the Romanian parliamentary elections. (more…)
Energy drinks have long become a regular part of many people’s lives. I myself enjoy a few in some more demanding workdays or when I have trouble getting up to speed in the morning. However, it’s human nature to question something that seems to have too much of a good effect since we’re all used even to side-effects of regular medicine. As a wise man once said, there is nothing in this world that’s purely good or purely bad, even doctor-prescribed medicine. (more…)
He looked at the candle in a strange intense manner, with his soft dark eyes now staring intensely as if the hissing of the candle would bear some deep secrets. Or maybe the aura of light worked as some sort of protective shield against the darkness that ruled the rest of the room … who could tell.
He wished time could hold still, just still so that the sand of the hourglass could eventually flow backwards, to otherweres and otherwhens. But time wasn’t obeying his wish, for a lonely teardrop was slowly finding its way down his cheek, eventually puddling up near the candle. (more…)
