From my mindblog: I gotta get thru this station

Synapse dump

Category: Science | c: 11 Nov 2011 11:11 | m: 22 Nov 2011 14:59

Y'know things that are all the rage? Blogs. Everyone has one; or at least had one before Facebook, Twitter and Google+ diluted the realtime pool.

Since I'm nu-old skool — and watching endless streams of people pretending they are the centre of the universe makes me long for a 'Shut up' button — I figured why not make a blog? The main difference here compared with other people's blogs is that instead of being limited to one topic, you get a little slice of everything all mashed up. Now Im dahn wiv da yoof.

All the 1s
11 November 2011 · 134 words (eats up less than a minute)

When is a date not a date? When you find a computer science nerd to mis-represent it.

Electric youth
31 December 2010 · 306 words (devours about 2 mins)

Remember the everlasting match? Invented in the 1970s if I recall correctly. Have you got one? Didn’t think so, because the invention was silenced and bought by the match makers of the time to protect their business model. Same with electric cars, it seems.

Space is pretty big
14 December 2010 · 384 words (munches about 2 mins)

Space: the final frontier. These are the facts and figures behind our very own V’ger (as they pronounced it in Star Trek 1) in everyday language. Still pretty mind boggling all the same.

Two identical snowflakes: statistical hokum?
29 November 2010 · 330 words (vacuums up about 2 mins)

When is a snowflake not a snowflake? That’s the real question we should be asking.

Breakfast glue
28 November 2010 · 52 words (sucks up less than a minute)

Some cereals are not meant to be cereals.

Hawking vs the Pope
03 September 2010 · 290 words (kills about 2 mins)

In the blue corner we have the most powerful religious puppet on the face of the earth. In the red corner the most intelligent man on the planet with neuro-muscular dystrophy. Let the bun fight commence.

Stef being a work berk

Stef being a berk at work