Thu, 30 Oct 2008
Renaissance Faires and :D
Lisa and I were recently discussing both Renaissance Faires and people who make smiles like :D.
For everyone, take a look at http://farmerchris.com/illusion/2/.
Make sure your mouse is not over the picture, so it is in black and white. Then move the mouse over it, and look at the dot toward the center. After a few seconds, move the mouse off the picture.
It's now in beautiful positive color!
More information at John Sadowski's original post.
Sat, 03 May 2008
Tuesday
was like simulated annealing, but where you never turn the temperature down.
Fri, 07 Mar 2008
Herbert and pajamas
Three nights ago, I went to Pancho Villa at 11 at night for a burrito. I was in my pajamas, and an originally-Polish girl (whose name I forget, sadly) struck up a conversation with me. She explained a minute or so in:
I was thinking of talking to you as soon as I saw you, but I thought you looked very focused on the menu.
She was sweet, and I suggested she wear hers to Pancho Villa. "But they're pink!" she objected.
On the walk back, a boy and a girl who looked in their mid-twenties drove down Fourteenth Street and turned onto Valencia while I was waiting at the corner. The girl's face lit up when she saw my pajamas.
Two nights ago, I was at a cocktail party at the home of the principal of the French-American International High School that I will be speaking at tomorrow. I spoke with the director of maths [sic] at the school, and after about twenty minutes of good conversation, he asked me if I knew I had this little guy in my pocket, or if my kids had put him there while I was unaware. Half an hour later, someone else wondered the same thing to me. Regardless, he was well-received by the school's staff, and in a car ride home, one of the teachers who organized the Internet Day joyfully played with him a little.
I know Herbert makes people happy, but who knew pajamas might be comparable?
Wed, 05 Mar 2008
Reasons for doing things
<asheesh> It goes something like, "Because we're good human beings." <venkatesh> okay. i don't agree with that, particularly
