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Category: Humor

Encode your IP as a haiku

By Phil Mayes Posted on March 10, 2015 Posted in Humor, Poetry, Programming Tagged with Haiku, IP address

How eccentric and cool: http://gabrielmartin.net/projects/hipku/ There’s also a Python port: http://pyhipku.lord63.com/

Ten Years!

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 3, 2015 Posted in Humor, Science

Today is the 10th anniversary of this blog, so I’ll celebrate with a bunch of random items. Interesting post suggesting that the creation of life can be explained in thermodynamic terms. A great series of old John Cleese commercials for Compaq. Can …

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Grammar

By Phil Mayes Posted on April 10, 2014 Posted in Computers, Humor, Programming Tagged with language

I just ran into this sentence in Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding You’re probably used to type systems in languages like C and Java and marveled at its ambiguity. “Used” and “type” have several different …

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Chicken

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 2, 2014 Posted in Humor, Programming

Q. Why did the multiprocessing chicken cross the road? A. to To other side. get the — Jason Whittington

Jon Stewart the Newsman

By Phil Mayes Posted on August 19, 2008 Posted in Humor, Politics, Society

“Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?” asks the NYTimes: “they’ve done so in ways that straight news programs cannot: speaking truth to power in blunt, sometimes profane language” “Jon Stewart [is] as substantive as network news” Indiana …

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Military Experience

By Phil Mayes Posted on July 28, 2008 Posted in Humor, Politics

Christopher Hitchens amused me today… “The right wing had no interest in highlighting Obama’s nuanced position in Austin, either, because there was (and is) a conservative interest in painting Obama as a heedless and irresponsible pacifist, with absolutely no experience …

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