September 2007
23 posts
shonk: My extremely inconsistent perfectionist streak strikes again. (via Twitter / shonk)
shonk: I’m actually looking forward to updating my iPhone to 1.1.1 and killing all my apps; I’m wasting way too much time playing crappy games. (via Twitter / shonk)
9/26 is Petrov Day →
“Today is September 26th, Petrov Day, celebrated to honor the deed of Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov on September 26th, 1983. Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, take a minute to not destroy the world.”
shonk: Finally watched the “Don’t tase me, bro” video; anybody know of a good article giving context? (via Twitter / shonk)
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shonk: If I don’t solve this problem I’m supposed to be grading soon, I’m going to go crazy. (via Twitter / shonk)
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Officemate: What is wrong with Milnor?
Me: He’s a fucking genius, man.
Officemate: No, I’ve met geniuses and Milnor is three or four steps beyond genius.
shonk: Does anybody use the term “Indian summer” anymore? (via Twitter / shonk)
Cats Harbor Secret Plan to Turn Us Into... →
“Time may prove that, evolutionarily speaking, we are simply a large and complex external cat organ, one given the duty of making itself obsolete.”
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shonk: The number -1 is clearly the work of the devil. Or, if you believe the “Idle hands…” cliché, maybe the opposite. (via Twitter / shonk)
Queensland brains crack the code of 3x5 →
“[I]f I was encrypting things I still wanted to be secret in 20 years’ time - now I would worry.”
Cut Medicine in Half →
“[O]ur main problem in health policy is a huge overemphasis on medicine. … But health policy experts know that we see at best only weak aggregate relations between health and medicine.”
shonk: @barreno Fortunately, I wasn’t planning on trying. (via Twitter / shonk)
shonk: Ah…the fabled Boston cab. (via Twitter / shonk)
shonk: So if anybody knows anything about either accounting or Boston, let me know. (via Twitter / shonk)
The History Boys →
“When I hear the president cite history so casually, an alarm goes off. Those who know history best tend to be tempered by it. They rarely refer to it so sweepingly and with such complete confidence.”
shonk: …four of which will be spent in Boston, a city I’ve never been to before. (via Twitter / shonk)
shonk: First draft of paper: done. Now I just have to design a year’s worth of curriculum for a subject I know nothing about in five days… (via Twitter / shonk)
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shonk: Note to self: nothing is so obvious that you won’t forget it if you don’t write it down. (via Twitter / shonk)
shonk: Aside from reading e-books, I’ve found the iPhone more useful in the last 5 days than I did the Nokia 770 for the year I used it regularly. (via Twitter / shonk)
Is There Anything Good About Men? →
“Today’s human population is descended from twice as many women as men. … It would be shocking if these vastly different reproductive odds for men and women failed to produce some personality differences.”
shonk: Finally done with TA training for a while. (via Twitter / shonk)
shonk: @noncomposmentis Try this: http://www.greypag.es/ (via Twitter / shonk)
shonk: Off to Vietnam (the restaurant, not the country). (via Twitter / shonk)