Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Alternative facts, however, are actually NOT a thing. Period.

Posting here weird things that turn out to actually be "things," as in, they exist, or people do them.

TIL that debugging your software by explaining it to a rubber duck is a thing, called rubber ducking your code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

I read earlier this year that the voice of Admiral Ackbar ("It's a trap!") died this year too.

I never played, but saw this in a tweet that made me laugh.
"How to include Dungeons and Dragons on your résumé:"

Read an amusing fan fiction theory today. In Star Wars, when the movies always start with "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." That's not a long time before us in a galaxy far from the Milky Way, it's being spoken very far, far in the future by someone who was here but is now telli...

Not necessarily while they were leaders. http://www.wwe.com/f/styles/wwe_16_9_xxs/public/video/thumb/2013/02/20070401_trump_vkm.jpg Obviously, the US is well-stocked now, but I wonder what others there are. This is the best I could think of besides Mr. T. https://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/201...

Well, it's been almost a whole day, so I guess we're long overdue to see the next campaign start up .

Uh oh

"They'll cost about $159, and you could easily lose them in a day."

What are Apple AirPods, Alex?

A spreadsheet power user is something I've never been. One time I made a Google Docs spreadsheet that on one sheet would automatically keep charting new data added to a pair of columns on the first sheet, but that's about it.

OpenOffice Write if it must be a .doc with formatting is a free option. When I need a nice document, I write using a plain text editor to write a .tex file and then pdflatex to make a nice PDF document.

I started applying for my current software job in late October of last year and started this past March. So a little over four months for me. Hopefully quicker than that for you.

Heh, I was at my old game of seeing who bought the domains of common nouns and found an interesting thing. If you go to paper.com, it goes to officedepot.com, specifically, to the results of a product search on paper. I was expecting Office Depot to have nabbed pencil.com too, but that seems to be s...

Germans have some great words

Backpfeifengesicht: A face that needs to be punched.

Even as he laid on his catafalque, the old liar's backpfeifengesicht exuded an unreal lifelike impression that you'd better hold onto your wallet.

A terrestrial planet in the habitable zone of our nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri. source

I ended up laying a 1/16" bead of Elmer's straight from the orange nozzle and laying a pile of books on the book for 24 hours. Now the segment is stuck as tightly to the spine as all the other segments. I was initially worried I didn't put enough glue, but I should have known that with glue, le...

Spent multiple hundreds on an immediately needed replacement of bad radiator, thermostat, and hoses. It's bittersweet being out the money while feeling safe against the threat of overheating halfway through my long daily commute.

I'm in the market for some adhesive intended to be safe for use with book pages. Big pluses would be if it were in an easy non-Costco-sized applicator bottle not unlike an Elmer's glue bottle, and on Amazon, since I have some "store credit" there from doing Mechanical Turk tasks. A whole s...

Are Chinese measure words similar in that you need to know the Right one for the thing you're talking about. If I remember correctly, ge is pretty commonly used, but many classes of things have a Right measure word that should be used.

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/87316/
I wonder if it's any easier to start with a solved cube and go through the motions of trying to get to each possible configuration within 20 moves or less.