Looking back, I really don’t appreciate the attitude with which elementary school teachers discuss US customary units (or for you Brits, Imperial units). Sure, they’re not as easy to convert as metric, but you don’t have to be such un-American assholes about it.
The fact of the matter is that they were convenient. Take [...]
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A Brief History – I’ll have the Rankine scale, please.
Posted in A brief history on February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oh yeah? Well eff YOU, 2008!
Posted in A brief history, Fictitious Fights on January 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A lot of people think the New Year has something to do with the solar calendar and the earth’s rotation around the sun. The truth is that it’s a lot simpler than that. 2008 just couldn’t handle being the year any more. Why? Because I kicked its ass.
That’s right. Conveniently on the night of December [...]
Damn it! I’m unoriginal!
Posted in A brief history on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So apparently the Internet is saturated with jokes about Avogadro’s number and the unit Guaca-mole. I had never heard these jokes before. My family didn’t grow up eating Mexican food.
Cooking! It’s just like chemistry! Not that I know either particularly well…
Posted in A brief history on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Analogies that compare cooking and chemistry are good for two things. They show how the person making the analogy knows about:
cooking and
chemistry
But the one thing that the two do share is the well defined relationship between the elementary unit and the sum of an arbitrary number of elementary units. In cooking, we call this [...]
Woes of Internet Dating
Posted in A brief history on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dating has come a long way since the time of the cave man. Back in the paleolithic era, strong dating skills was a sign of leadership and essential for surviving, finding a mate, and eventually reproducing.
But resolution for this type of dating was quite low. Though cave men only needed to date animal tracks [...]
A brief history of Tarot card reading
Posted in A brief history on June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The history of Tarot card reading begins in the first century, anno domini, with the invention of “poker.” Poker was one of the most preferred games of the Ancient Romans.
Of course, 2 thousand years ago, poker was a very different game. Instead of having paper cards, Romans would play with tiles of dried clay, [...]
Understanding Finance – The tale of the Walletin Spectre
Posted in A brief history, Understanding Finance on March 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Adam Smith was a big proponent of free market economics. Some may say that he “invented” capitalism. But who invented Adam Smith? Clearly, saying that Smith invented capitalism would be a naive statement, and nobody invented Adam Smith, but it was the old tale of the Walletin spectre that scared him straight into supporting self [...]
