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Comment on Coffee optimization by owen

owen — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:54:21 +0000

This morning, after standing outside the bathroom at home for longer than I would have liked, I impatiently asked my wife, “Why do you pee, wash your hands, do something else, then wash your hands again??” She said, “I blew my nose.”

*exasperated sigh*

Comment on Santa is dead. Long live Santa. by zanblogs

zanblogs — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:38:45 +0000

no one would surrender to the dread pirate westley

Comment on Santa is dead. Long live Santa. by pawliger

pawliger — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:32:04 +0000

No, Bob is saying Santa is like The Dread Pirate Roberts…

Comment on Santa is dead. Long live Santa. by Ben Liblit

Ben Liblit — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:23:50 +0000

So … Santa Claus is Batman‽

Comment on How (and why) to program, part 2 by Zorak

Zorak — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:48:39 +0000

I got it in ~30 seconds by inspection #7. disintedl was the key.

Comment on Where were you in ’62? by shades55

shades55 — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:02:50 +0000

Me and Mom moved up in ’62.
From The Bronx to Forest Hills!

Comment on Basket handle protocol by Zorak

Zorak — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:20:44 +0000

Far more annoying are the jackasses who leave shopping carts in the middle of parking spaces when the corral for empty carts is like 15 feet away.

Comment on Basket handle protocol by owen

owen — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 06:05:06 +0000

I see a business opportunity. We need to design a basket where the handles are spring-loaded a little, such that you need to apply some force to move them from the folded down position to the carrying position. Then when you drop the basket back in the stack, the handles will snap down automatically. As a bonus, if the shopper squeezes the handles together idly while filling their basket, they get a workout a la those gripmaster things!

We’ll make millions, Bob.

Comment on Basket handle protocol by Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:52:35 +0000

Well, we all know what we’re going to hell in.

Comment on Predicting the present by nsb

nsb — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 12:13:14 +0000

We were both wrong about trusting credit cards on the net; that’s because the card associations cleverly figured out how to completely hide the cost of increased fraud from the consumer, though we all still end up paying it.

My own most dramatic failure of vision was in 1977, when my college’s one computer doubled the per-user memory from 8K to 16K. I had been struggling to keep the library automation program I was writing within 8K, but this was just wonderful, and I told a friend: “That’s all the memory I’ll ever need.” Today, my laptop has 8G. I was off by a factor of at least a million, and surely more.