tautology: n. A statement to which one may reasonably respond with ‘well, DUH’.
e.g.:
‘man is bald and has no hair!’
‘well, DUH’
definition of the day
December 16th, 2009calculating
December 14th, 2009blodgett was reducing the quantities required in a recipe to 2/5ths of original. this is tedious. fortunately blodgett uses scm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_(programming_language)) as its calculator. this makes things less tedious.
> (define (squish amt) (* 2 (/ amt 5))
#
> (map squish '(600 750 200 300))
(240 300 80 120)
success!
conferring
December 14th, 2009was investigating international conference on pattern recognition next year, called icpr.
http://www.icpr2010.org/
blodgett observed that icpr is held in even numbered years only. but wait! what else does blodgett observe?
there nonetheless exist a mysterious icpr2009! further investigation warranted, and joyously rewarded!
http://www.ales2.ualberta.ca/afns/icpr/
icpr 2009 was EIGHTH international conference on pig reproduction! clearly much novel informations are being rapidly discovered. for those unable to make the glorious moot itself, proceedings available to purchase online:
http://www.nup.com/Catalogue/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductID=269
friend nick did also observe the essential accompanying text ‘perfecting the pig environment’ (“for students and those professionals who choose to work at the sharp end of the pig industry”):
http://www.nup.com/Catalogue/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductID=258
this did confuse blodgett a little, as there does not generally seem to be any sharp end to a pig.
alarming
December 13th, 2009went in search of comestibles today and did see a notice.
hmm. why nobody reassure it?! blodgett feels one cannot get the staff these days.
think it calmed down eventually.
yay for chocobo!
December 13th, 2009blodgett likes this game very much. in particular, it likes the good noises, and approves of whoever wrote/translated the english dialogue:
blodgett feels friend nick in particular may also like robot:
robot no nap
robot intends bashing
robot fails! blodgett victorious
.02% very important
December 13th, 2009blodgett appreciates its honesty, but marvels at its insanity. notes also from the small print that 1/3rd of its customers pay more…
scam
another reason to hate python
December 8th, 2009someone made wonderful suggestion that was rejected :(
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0313/
fact of the day!
December 8th, 2009more than half the weight of pyrex glass is oxygen
(http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/Star/compos.pl?matno=169)
blodgett learns a word
December 5th, 2009blodgett has a rug, and noticed yesterday that the label identified its constituents in many languages (see photo).
wolle
in particular, blodgett noticed that the german is ‘Baumwolle’. this was temporarily quite confusing, as blodgett had heretofore believed that the word Baum in german meant Sheep. (because, it looks a bit like fat sheeps.) blodgett was picturing this
cottonsheep
but rug made of cotton wolle, not sheep wolle! so this was wrong. blodgett looks up the word Baum. Baum means Tree!
so blodgett sees now this
cottontree
much better
small announcement
December 5th, 2009blodgett did patch its gom toy
is new one here:
http://blodgett.doof.me.uk/real/sayGOM
is old instructions here:
http://blodgett.doof.me.uk/2009/11/21/subtracting-one