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So, what the heck is going on in the tech industry where everyone has to begin every sentence with this word? It’s most obvious when they are answering a question or starting a presentation. It makes me wonder if this is a mneme to recall something rehearsed. Are all of these people attending the same [...]

If you take a picture of yourself and your camera in a mirror, the camera will always be perfectly level in the image. If a standard vinyl record has 4 songs on one side and 5 on the other, how many grooves are there? Two. One per side. That groove averages around 500 meters in [...]

A web site which gives blogs movie ratings, based on language, gave this blog a G rating. Wow, I try to be careful not to curse for no reason, because I don’t want any search engines or aggregators to filter me, but that’s still a surprise. I could be a Pixar film. I guess I [...]

I saw a television ad for Carpeteria floor covering stores last night. It reminded me of a city which you’ve probably seen if you’ve ever driven highway 101 between northern and southern California, the city of Carpinteria. It was also the home of former graphics powerhouse, MetaCreations Corp, who brought us Kai’s Power Tools, Painter, [...]

We can’t really call it the “turn of the century” yet. That still seems like 1900 to me. So what is this decade called? Is the next one “the teens?” Like, ew.

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn [...]