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Category Archives: Random Thought Of The Day

Random Thought Of The Day: Global Warming

So there are constantly people debating whether or not Al Gore is full of shit about global warming. (He’s not, by the way, but I’m not going to argue the point with you. His facts are accurate.)
So maybe there is global warming, and maybe it’s caused by man-made pollutants, and maybe not. But whether or […]

Died As His Home

The CNN scroller just pointed out again that Richard Widmark died. But there was a mistype: it said that Widmark “died as his home”.
That gives me an idea for a short story.

Random Thought Of The Day

There is a tendency to use CPU power as a benchmark for technological progress. (”In 1960, a computer had X amount of cycles per second. In 2008, computers have Y amount. Wowee!”) As a blunt tool, this seems effective…but it seems to me that you can really measure progress in technology as an inverse function […]

Another Random Thought Of The Day

In wake of the Gizmodo thing from CES, I keep seeing comments saying “They just should have secured their IR ports. It’s a security lesson.”
Well, know what? When I walk up to you on the street and slap your teeth out of your head, and then kick you in the stomach hard with my steel-toe […]

Random Thought Of The Day

HA HA BRITISH PEOPLE INVENTED TEA BUT COULDN’T FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE IT ICED HA HA BRITISH PEOPLE ARE DUMB.
I refuse to explain this.