Posts by VeganVegan

Just in case there is one commentard who hasn't hear this joke

Q: Why doesn't George RR Martin use Twitter?

A: He'd already killed off all 140 characters.

Sharing my earwax? Never!

My earwig needs his sustenance.

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Nice series, more please.

Over the years I've also enjoyed Brian Hayes' entertaining musings and explorations (http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/brian-hayes) scroll down to "Computing Science" for a list of his articles.

Beautiful!

But maybe puzzling for someone on the ground subjected to a latex shower.

<happy globe icon>

The odds are not too shabby

It's been estimated that the total urban area on Earth is around 3 million sq. km.

The Earth's surface area is ca. 150 million sq. km.

So the odds of hitting some urban area is about 1 in 50 or so.

This raises a potentially interesting possibility

Why not take all the obsolescent 'smart' phones, and recycle their compute modules?

Lumpy gravity

I had originally read it as "lumpy gravy".

Working too late, must get food...

Beer, in lieu of a food icon.

They should examine the butts for

pin worms.

Qlp

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The only thing for sure is

that some new unimaginably cringe-worthy, diabetes-inducing species will be introduced.

This was the case even before Disney got involved: Ewoks and JJ Binks* being prime examples.

* The conspiracy theorist in me wants to scream, "JJ Abrams and JJ Binks!!! Are you kidding me!!" (plus much more foam-flecked frothiness)

Meh. Fish and chips,

but inedible.

Throw it back.

Let the penguins have it.

Too much drama

The 6 or so weeks for delivery hasn't changed much since a few days after it became available to order back in December.

An order put in in early January should arrive late February / early March.

It's now on the cusp of March, so orders put in today plus 6 weeks is going to push delivery to April.

How much of this is so difficult to understand?

The part that is interesting is Apple's ramp up plans. If we assume some constant level of demand (after the initial madness), either there are no plans to ramp up production, or, they have ongoing production problems (supplier, QC, whatever).

Beer (brown MacPro) o'clock.

That's a laugh,

at the time I submitted this, the world has had (http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/) >260,000 births today .

Devil's spawn indeed.

I need to set up a factory to manufacture gob

more boffins need smacking.

Coming off the Olympics,

I'd like to see a robot do the grand slalom, or the halfpipe.

But does it blend?

Call me old-fashioned, but the up close and personal blending, even sans slo-mo, is more appealing to me.

A high velocity bullet is just not cricket.

C the ruby-hroated hummingbird get eaten by the python

C title

That's because of accessibility limitations

They had to trademark "Live Listen", since they can't be sure that zombies are coordinated enough to use a phone. Otherwise they would have simply used "Listen", or, if they wanted to target that consumer subset, "Zombie Listen".

But..

For the text, it looks like if we wait long enough, the whole asteroid will fall into our laps anyway.

I'd propose a mission that waits until it does so, and then spend the hopefully well-invested mission funding scooping up whatever bits that survives Earth entry. (Oh yes, and help pay for whatever damages it causes)

Have a well-deserved one, tomorrow!

Ignore the nabobs of neg. As they say, no good deed goes unpunished.

btw, it's a large genus, and on this side of the pond, it's the American robin.