Video o’ the day: (Here are the lyrics if you need them.) I find this video particularly endearing because the lead girl looks (dresses, acts, reads, etc.) so much like my 22-year-old daughter Salem (except Salem [aka Emily] is cuter). Hat tip to Bad Astronomy. ..bruce w..
I’m a fan of Howard Phillip Lovecraft, not because I think he was a great writer (his prose is a bit purple by today’s standards), but because he really was the father of 20th Century post-Gothic horror. Sadly, all the film adaptations of Lovecraft’s work to date have been mediocre at best and usually wretched, […]
A blast from the past, circa 1992. The place is San Diego, the company is Pages Software. Back then the internet was not yet invented, but we has usenet news groups. The following appeared Jan 17, 1992 in comp.sys.next.misc Just how many Bruce’s are there at Pages? Well, I have recently gotten a couple of […]
I’ve posted Improv Everywhere videos before — particularly the famous “I need a napkin” musical — but this one is the most elaborate and professional that I’ve seen: Be sure to read the whole article over at Improv Everywhere to get a sense of the planning that went into this. Hat tip to Metafilter. ..bruce […]
My son Wes sent me this link from ThinkGeek: As any good geek should know by now Japan has some of the wackiest and most unusual products anywhere. So when we were visiting Tokyo recently and saw lines of Japanese schoolgirls waiting to play an amazing new game for the Wii called Super Pii Pii […]
From the Onion: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories ‘Ridiculous,’ Al Qaeda Says Heh. ..bruce w..
I left a slightly snarky and flamebaity comment over at Slashdot on a post about problems with C++ education; among the deluge of responses, pro and con, was a post from someone saying that programming was a dead end and that “computers write programs”. I pointed out that I’ve been hearing that for decades — […]
One of the wonderful things about the internet is that if you wait long enough, someone somewhere will post just what you’ve always wanted. In this case, someone over in Germany had made a comparison between how food looks in ads and on packages and what the food actually looks like: Admittedly, it’s mostly German […]
We still have nearly eight (8) months left in this Presidential campaign. In fact, the campaign for the Democratic nomination alone is likely to go on for another five (5) months. Couldn’t have said it better myself. Hat tip to a comment posted at Pharyngula. ..bruce w..
