dan-o's blog

Wed Dec 2
I’ve seen ads like these all over the subways and elsewhere in Boston.  It seems they’re intended to be funny; each has a pithy punchline similar to this one (“I feel drunk with power.”) It just struck me: does this mean Microsoft thinks the idea of actually listening to their users is funny? It’s as though they’re saying, “HA HA OMG these people think we did this because they wanted it ISN’T THAT HILARIOUS”. Anyway, it’s not an advertising campaign I would have chosen.

I’ve seen ads like these all over the subways and elsewhere in Boston.  It seems they’re intended to be funny; each has a pithy punchline similar to this one (“I feel drunk with power.”)

It just struck me: does this mean Microsoft thinks the idea of actually listening to their users is funny? It’s as though they’re saying, “HA HA OMG these people think we did this because they wanted it ISN’T THAT HILARIOUS”.

Anyway, it’s not an advertising campaign I would have chosen.

22T!

danob@michael-jordan:~$ df -h /dev/md1
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1               22T 1.1T   21T   5% /mnt/raid6

Tue Dec 1

It was Feynman’s idea to use the double-slit experiment as an introduction to the principles of quantum mechanics.  I have a recording of him explaining it in a lecture at Cal Tech in 1962, but alas it’s nearly an hour long so tumblr won’t let me upload it.

So for now I’ll just quote my favorite part:

“Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you know about, or that you have any direct experience about.  They do not behave like waves; they do not behave like particles; they do not behave like clouds, nor like billiard balls, nor like weights on springs, nor like anything that you know anything about.”

This is a really good explanation of the double-slit experiment, which, if you don’t know much about quantum mechanics, might blow your mind.

Tue Oct 20

sermon baby

Fri Sep 25
five coolest companies in boston

Of course Harmonix is on the list, but the CIC made #4! How badass is that!

Mon Sep 21
Burglar leaves his Facebook page on victim’s computer

“The victim later noticed that the intruder also used her computer to check his Facebook status, and his account was still open when she checked the computer.”

Fri Sep 18
Pavement tickets on StubHub already!

Pavement tickets on StubHub already!

Thu Sep 17
turbine named in patent lawsuit

“In 2002, Paltalk purchased two patents […] covering technologies for sharing data among many connected computers so that all users see the same digital environment.”

Tue Sep 15
great article about the right-wing teabaggers