January 2011
41 posts
Learning to Cook →
And yet I never stop thinking, ‘Sure, these ingredients cost more than a restaurant meal but think how many meals I’ll get out of them!! Especially since each one will have leftovers.’
LIC Ads–Coming of Age? →
The Life Insurance Corporation of India has been around since the dawn of time, well not exactly the dawn of time but to someone like me born in 1986, 1956 is the dawn of time! And its ads have…
“A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.”
– Colette
“I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent,...”
– Mark Twain
Try and Solve This 17x17x17 Rubiks Cube if You... →
I get a headache just thinking about how one would go about solving this functioning 17x17x17 behemoth. If I actually tried solving this thing, I’d probably have a nervous breakdown.
When Lightning Strikes Erupting Volcanoes →
WIVES OF YESTERDAY,TODAY AND TOMORROW →
The Massively Intimidating Size of the Internet... →
“We’re probably going to die in the f**king apocalypse, but you know...”
– Patton Oswalt
“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
– H.L.Mencken
“Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.”
– Jane Wagner
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
– Sir Winston Churchill
Definitions: The Devil's Dictionary
Bride - A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Husband - One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not,...”
– Ernest Benn
“When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t...”
– Otto Van Bismarck
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It...”
– E.F.Schumacher
“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger...”
– Anon
“There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.”
– Denis Diderot
Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions:... →
Inaccuracy We Trust
Data Recovery with Comodo Time Machine →
“The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely...”
– Russell Baker
“Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.”
– Margaret Mitchell
“We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex—but...”
– Cullen Hightower
Is This the World's Dumbest Cellphone Thief? →
Picture the scene: it’s a Walmart in Nampa, Idaho, and a nameless victim—let’s call him Fred—has just bought a new smartphone. Busy downloading apps before he barely has time to take the plastic wrapping off the phone, he doesn’t see Brian Westerfield approaching. But he does notice when Westerfield steals his smartphone right from under his nose, Seesmic app probably still...
“Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?”
– Clifford Stoll
“Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.”
– Bill Cosby
Calculations
There are three kinds of people: those who can count and those who can’t.
Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world’s population.
Hand over the calculator, friends don’t let friends derive drunk.
An infinite crowd of mathematicians enters a bar. The first one orders a pint, the second one a half pint, the third one a quarter pint… “I understand”, says the...
Ad Absurdum
Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue.
E-mail returned to sender, insufficient voltage.
All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
If I wanted a warm fuzzy feeling, I’d antialias my graphics!
If brute force doesn’t solve your problems, then you aren’t using enough.
SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it.
Evolution is God’s...
Programming
If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0.
My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
The code that is the hardest to debug is the code that you know cannot possibly be wrong.
Beware of programmers that carry screwdrivers.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to...
OS
The box said ‘Requires Windows Vista or better’. So I installed LINUX.
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
In a world without fences and walls, who needs Gates and Windows?
C://dos C://dos.run run.dos.run
Bugs come in through open Windows.
Penguins love cold, they wont survive the sun.
Unix is user friendly. It’s just...
Browsing
The truth is out there. Anybody got the URL?
The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents.
Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there’s Google.
One Liners
There are only 10 types of people in the world: those that understand binary and those that don’t.
Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.
Be nice to the nerds, for all you know they might be the next Bill Gates!
Artificial intelligence usually beats real stupidity.
To err is human – and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
CAPS LOCK – Preventing Login Since 1980.
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time...”
– Miss Piggy
“The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.”
– David Richerby