Hope springs eternal

I think I have found the true definition of “hope springs eternal”: You can see at the top that there are zero seats available for upgrades on this plane. (There are 24 total first class seats on the plane.) But there are 35 people waiting for those zero seats! So, if none of the original… Continue reading Hope springs eternal

Schrödinger’s Sweepstakes

You may already be a winner

You may remember my post on Schrödinger’s pizza. Of course, you may not, so go ahead and re-read it. I can wait. La la la la. Welcome back! All set? Fully grounded in pizza and coffee and their relationship to quantum physics? Great! I was thinking today. Yes, as difficult as that may be to… Continue reading Schrödinger’s Sweepstakes

AI for the sake of AI

We were traveling this summer and one of the people we ran into said that a bear chasing a person on a bike is called “meals on wheels.” That stuck with me, and so I went out to Adobe Firefly and created the above picture. It was fairly easy, and I learned something. No bike… Continue reading AI for the sake of AI

Who really knows?

I ran across this today and it caused me to wonder how I would know if I were or were not a robot. If you created me and programmed me to be a robot who thinks he is human, wouldn’t you have skipped the self-awareness subroutine that made me question whether I was human? I… Continue reading Who really knows?

Stay the patient course.  Of little worth is your ire.  The network is down.

This is a rerun from a few years ago, but it (re)amused me, so I figured I’d share. I ran across an old list of computer error messages written as haiku.  (“Haiku”?  “Haikus”?  Whichever…)  They continue to amuse me.  The one I recalled was: A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone. I went back to my hard… Continue reading Stay the patient course.  Of little worth is your ire.  The network is down.

Joule Thief

I made a joule thief. So what? So nothing. I just thought it would be fun and interesting to find something to do with all the old, not-quite-dead-but-not-quite-useful batteries I have sitting around. That is a 3V LED and it can be lit (lighted?) by a battery showing less than 0.5V of potential. Cool? I… Continue reading Joule Thief

Girl, you know it’s true

I realized earlier today that I sang as many notes on Milli Vanilli’s song Girl You Know It’s True as Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus did. I also have as many Grammy’s as Milli Vanilli. Did I have a point? Not especially.