Archive for December, 2006
“Why do train whistles at night always sound lonely and mournful? Not so in the daytime.”
Raymond Chen’s blog provides an interesting mix of content. A good percentage of it is extremely detailed information on windows programming or examples of people doing stupid things with the Windows API; the remainder is often linked hilarity.
Earlier this week he posted a link to these two EGM articles on kids’ reactions to playing old video games (on Space Invaders: “I’m sure everyone who made this game is dead by now.”)
Today it was a link to a batch of questions that went unanswered this year - for whatever reason - by Slate’s “The Explainer” column. The questions cover a range of topics, from solving all of the worlds energy problems:
“Hi, how does nature make water? How does nature combine one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms to make water? If we knew how nature makes water, then perhaps we can then find an efficient way of separating hydrogen from oxygen, thus creating the ultimate source for energy.”
to career advice:
“yea i have my own 620 gang and i dont know how to run it to make not look like a little bitch gang joke it is just me and my friend how do i run it?”
to matters of life and death:
Can you tell me how long it will take if you eat rat poison to see if it is going to affect you? Please e-mail me back. Because my niece ate some.
Comedic-frickin’-gold!
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