March 30th, 2006
So Jason gets a new job, and I have to hear about it from his blog. Bah.
Since I’m already elbows-deep in gnuplot, here’s a graph to explain what’s going on here:
Fig. 1. Cumulative distribution function of friends, co-workers, and acquaintances working at Google, as a function of time.
Update: Chris points out that my data collection has been sloppy, and that the graph above actually represents the function of friends who have gone (or will go) to work at either Google or Apple.
March 29th, 2006
It’s been 25 whole minutes and nobody has an HD still of the … thing … in tonight’s LOST?
Update: One capture over on Flickr. Update 2: Slightly better one.
March 28th, 2006
Chère Lazyweb: It’s time to stop keeping research notes on scratch paper (not to be confused with scrap paper) and in my tiny daily Moleskine journal. I’m looking for composition-book suggestions.
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March 27th, 2006
(…hot!)
This unbelievably badly translated Chinese restaurant menu is perhaps the funniest example of zhonglish I have ever seen.
[What, zhonglish isn’t a word yet? Well, it is now: zhong (“middle”, from zhongwen / 中文, the name of written Chinese) + -glish (from English, common affix for “bad English translation” neologisms).]
March 27th, 2006
I wasn’t quick enough to catch this with my camera, but Regan was.
March 21st, 2006
If you print it up, credit Matt Haynie, who was giving me London advice:
MH: yeah, don’t buy anything you don’t have to while you’re over there
MH: NOTHING IS WORTH IT
March 19th, 2006
Two grad students + lots of grading to do + big papers to write = back to playing Tetris. THE TINY CUBES, THEY HAUNT ME
