I am not smarter than a 10 year old. On the other hand, I can quite easily beat one in a fight and I can get served in pubs. So who wins now, eh? Google may be far more evil than Microsoft and Apple put together. But they have convinced us otherwise. Which doubles their [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Stupidities category.
December – A Survival Guide
Yes. It’s that time of year again – for the nth consecutive time in a row you have achieved your goal of getting to the end of the year without sitting in a clock tower muttering to yourself as you reload your rifle. But don’t relax just yet! Staying on your guard during the twelfth [...]
I Know How You Got Here!
Inspired by Stevo‘s post on Wonderful Search Terms and hoping to jump on the internet meme bandwagon, here are the top 20 searches for this site. Firstly, I know what the number one search term for this site is and I know it without checking. I find it fantastic that particular search term brings so [...]
It’s Safe to Insult Certain People. Apparently.
Coverage of the recent Olympics has made me realise that despite the fact that Political Correctness is widespread and pretty much ingrained in Western society, there are still 2 groups of people that we can still be patronising and rude to without any comebacks. I don’t know if this is a loophole or whether the [...]
Schrödinger’s Pants
Schrödinger’s Cat: A cat, along with a flask containing a poison, is placed in a sealed box shielded against environmentally induced quantum decoherence. The flask is shattered, releasing the poison, if a Geiger counter detects radiation. Quantum mechanics suggests that after a while the cat is simultaneously alive and dead, in a quantum superposition of [...]
A Few Random Jottings
None of these things is worth a full post on it’s own. So here are some random thoughts: Recycling – until the council forced us to seperate our rubbish out I had thought that a collection every two weeks wasn’t enough. Now I realise that 75% of our rubbish is paper/cardboard so two weeks seems [...]
