- Nigel Kersten:
TSA officer SFO: “what color is that (toy) light saber?” Me: … TSA: “We have different security procedures for Sith & Jedi.” #mademyday
Author Archives: Jeff Porten
I was watching The West Wing today, decided to stop by.
The White House
Swarming and stocks
My podcast randomization sometimes causes some interesting juxtapositions. Today’s example:
Talk of the Nation interviews a writer about flocking and swarming behavior, where a group of creatures can exhibit complex and intelligent behaviors that the individuals do not have.
Planet Money interviews the inventor of computerized high-speed trading, which now makes up 50% of all stock trades. Includes an interesting anecdotes about using robots in 1987 to work around NASDAQ rules.
I strongly suspect that sociologists later this century will apply the insights of the first story to figure out how we’re screwing up the second.
- Jason Seifer:
I just ordered chocolate cake and ice cream for lunch. I can do that because I am an adult and an American.
@jseifer It’s only American if you order a *whole* cake.
#ThatAwkwardMoment when you realize the reason the wifi is working so well is that you just blew through 3 gigs of LTE data.
#ThatAwkwardMoment when you realize the reason the wifi is working so well is that you just blew through 3 gigs of LTE data.
My old landlord is advertising at this movie, and showed a lobby sculpture that Heather Hamilton nicknamed Penis Fish Boy.
In case you?re feeling stuck today?
I traditionally buy a bucket of popcorn, but $8 flipped the Jewish bit to zero.
Back in the old hood, hoping this movie doesn’t rape my childhood.
AMC Loews Uptown 1
In case you’re feeling stuck today…
I keep on looking up these numbers. I’m going to blog them so I never have to find them again. All figures are highly approximate, so no one give me any shit unless I’ve made major calculation errors. (Paul Guinnessey, I’m looking at you.)
Your approximate speed because you’re standing on Earth’s surface: 1,000 miles per hour
Your approximate speed because you’re orbiting the sun: 67,000 miles per hour
Your approximate speed because you’re also orbiting the Milky Way: 535,000 miles per hour
Starbucks
Thinking of catching 11P show of Man of Steel at the Uptown/Cleveland Park. Any fellow geeks interested?
The Chopra Generator
This apparently has been around for a while, and damned if I know how I missed it, because it’s the best thing ever.
It has been said by some that the thoughts and tweets of Deepak Chopra are indistinguishable from a set of profound sounding words put together in a random order, particularly the tweets tagged with “#cosmisconciousness”. This site aims to test that claim! Each “quote” is generated from a list of words that can be found in Deepak Chopra’s Twitter stream randomly stuck together in a sentence.
Selected examples:
- Interdependence influences universal chaos.
- Quantum physics nurtures unparalleled energy.
- The web of life grows through the barrier of belonging.
- Your consciousness projects onto existential opportunities.
- The future is an ingredient of infinite destiny.
Maybe HSBC should be doing this instead
Holy crap. Believe it or not, this is an Excel spreadsheet. Hat tip: Pat Matthews.
Just realized for the first time that Fleishmen is the antonym of Cybermen.
But then it wouldn?t be crunchy
But then it wouldn’t be crunchy
One of my earliest memories is roadtripping with my parents to Miami Beach when I was three or four, and watching an episode of Monty Python with them late one night in a motel outside Fayetteville. Considering their last business in Atlantic City, I’d like to think it was this one.