If meetings were birds, they would be crows. That way 2 or more meetings would be “a murder of meetings.” Or herons for a “siege of meetings.” Or ravens for “an unkindness of meetings.” Britney concerts would be jays for “a party of Britney concerts.” Panama tax records would be coots or lapwings. […]
Month: April 2016
An “invitation to a meeting” is a bit like “celebration of a car accident,” or “enjoying a football game.” What are those words doing in the same sentences? […]
Happy 420 everybody. The one day a year where stoners stand with the nazis in celebration. […]
Britsome! CloudBacko just released a beta with support for Amazon Cloud Drive. So far it looks good – still migrating backup sets from Dropbox… […]
Interesting fact: on, say, a multiple-choice test, you are likely to do better by guessing at questions you don’t know the answer to rather than systematically picking an option. The reason is that if you pick an option systematically (say, always yes to yes/no questions or using the pattern A -> B -> C -> […]
Get-rich scheme of the day: A lot of conferences record and subsequently stream their talks so people can view them afterwards if they weren’t there. Or just blindly share babbling about banalities in an attempt to seem hipster-deep. Everybody knows that talks is not the reason people go to conferences. Rather, the free food is. […]