everything is linear on a log-log plot!

portmanteau of the day

{$deadline}stache -- effect of forgetting to shave close to deadline-x

the wall

Throughout his career Dravid's was an image of a man unsatisfied, of a man who despite all his achievements and humility, was struggling to prove something to himself, more than to the outside world.

chi-ku-ba!

feels like i got a (free) 1500$ carwash

pictures and thousand words etc. etc.

i dont recall having seen a movie from the title and the description, but 2 seconds into the movie, i realize ive seen it already.

(dis)agree

sometimes the best way to disagree is to quickly agree

language skills learned recently

TIL
STGM
TL;DR

Hyphenated last names

Why dont we see hyphenated last names of length > 2?

Length is too easy an argument ...

trivia

the problem with poor garbage collection is you never know what random historical reference will pop up

that's the frailty of genius john, it needs an audience

-- via sherlock ..

law of inverse relevance

"The less you intend to do about something, the more you have to keep talking about it.

(from yes minister)

qotd

in the absence of choice, rationality prevails.

--anon

floaters

why do these eye floaters appear orange/ant-like?

sleep in motion

why does a moving car/bus/train cause people to get into sleep mode?

is it related to why babies are put in rocking cradles etc?

(for some reason the movement does not really extend to airplanes)

does being in a bigger vehicle make people more rash drivers?

shuttle/truck/bus drivers seem more rash than those in compact cars :-)

maybe that size gives them a feeling of invincibility?

sizing toileteries in hotels?

the things that hotels give you seem rather wasteful. maybe they should have variable sized soap/shampoos etc depending on the length of the reservation.

airline seat assignment?

should airlines profile passenger weight/build etc before doing the seat assignments. makes sense to have "compact" people in middle seats :-)

randal

why do there appear to be a more than normal share of people named randal/randalls in academia?

why do we sleep with eyes closed?

is it because visual processing is (one of) the most expensive pieces of brain processing? shutting that input makes it easy for the brain to go into sleep mode?