'For the final exam, you take a screenshot showing off all the work you've done in the class, and it has to survive being uploaded, thumbnailed, and re-screenshotted through a chain of social media sites.'
Читать полностью…'Each particle also has a password which allows its properties to be changed, but the cosmic censorship hypothesis suggests we can never observe the password itself—only its secure hash.'
Читать полностью…'If you draw a diagonal line from lower left to upper right, that's the ICP 'Miracles' axis.'
Читать полностью…'You're saying that the responsibility for avoiding miscommunication lies entirely with the listener, not the speaker, which explains why you haven't been able to convince anyone to help you down from that wall.'
Читать полностью…'I heard they might make the wild card game, which would be cool. Do you know when that is? I have a wedding next weekend, but if it's after that we could try to go!'
Читать полностью…'Strangely, they still celebrate by eating hot dogs. Since they don't have mouths, they just kinda toss them in the air and let them fall back down into their propeller blades. It's pretty messy.'
Читать полностью…'Some other studio should do the Antz/A Bug's Life thing and release The Dingbats Movie at the same time.'
Читать полностью…'I was banned from the airliners.net photography forum by concerned moderators after the end of my lens started brushing against planes as they flew by.'
Читать полностью…'The hardest refresh requires both a Mac keyboard and a Windows keyboard as a security measure, like how missile launch systems require two keys to be turned at once.'
Читать полностью…'I'm not totally locked into my routine—twice a year, I take a break to change the batteries in my smoke detectors.'
Читать полностью…'Magnetohydrodyanmics combines the intuitive nature of Maxwell's equations with the easy solvability of the Navier-Stokes equations. It's so straightforward physicists add "relativistic" or "quantum" just to keep it from getting boring.'
Читать полностью…'I had fun visiting the museum at Dover Air Force Base, unless they don't have a museum, in which case I've never been to Delaware in my life.'
Читать полностью…'In the 90s, our variety radio station used the tagline "the best music of the 70s, 80s, and 90s." After 2000, they switched to "the best music of the 80s, 90s, and today." I figured they'd change again in 2010, but it's 2017 and they're still saying "80s, 90s, and today." I hope radio survives long enough for us to find out how they deal with the 2020s.'
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