Google has some self-esteem issues
It seems that either Google has been hacked or its security settings have been upgraded to be excessively paranoid. It will be interesting to hear what ended up happening to produce these results….
Month: January 2009
Bored at work?
Make yourself hallucinate, chemical free! I just have two questions? Who was laying around taping half ping pong balls over their eyes while listening to static? And, on the more science-y side, I wonder if, even if these are chemical-free ways too mess with your brain, there could be lasting side effects of doing these types of things repeatedly? How often would you have to rub a friend’s nose before you permanently felt like your own nose was super long?
I am equally mathematically and pop-culturally prominent!
I think everybody knows about Bacon numbers (distance between people in the six degrees of Kevin Bacon game) and if you hang in math circles you know about Erdos numbers (publication distance from the prolific Paul Erdos) but I just found out that people have started computing Erdős–Bacon numbers (via ALOTT5MA). Traditionally one only counts credited movie appearances towards one’s Bacon number, but for this, a relaxed set of rules is adopted which gives me a Bacon-Erdos number! I get an Erdos number of 4 through a paper with my PhD advisor and I get a Bacon number of 4 … Continue reading I am equally mathematically and pop-culturally prominent!
They roared their terrible roars!
OMGZ!!!! OMGZ!!!! OMGZ!!!!! Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
Still can’t figure out when that leap second happened
It’s the time of year to get yourself a new calendar – or invest in a perpetual calendar so you never have to worry about it again. If you’ve got twelve cents and a piece of cardboard, you can build yourself this little desk calendar that shows you the day’s date….. so long as you’re proficient with binary. I’d actually probably get more screwed up by remembering whether I started numbering the days of the week from zero or one, but (note to self) it would be a fun exercise to convince yourself that this is the minimum number of … Continue reading Still can’t figure out when that leap second happened