Filed Under (Lit Review, Whimsy) by Don C on 03-05-2008
“Worst Analogies Ever Written in a High School Essay Contest”. A sample of the winners :
Her vocabulary was as bad as, like..whatever.
Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 pm, traveling at 55 mph; the other from Topeka at 3:18 pm at a speed of 35 mph.
And one more, cuz I’m kinda nerd :
Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch@ung… but gets T:\flw.quidaaakk/ch@ung… by mistake
There’s a bunch of em at the link.
I can’t help it. I gotta make one up. “He had some dun colored googly eyes set in a round red face that looked like two turds bobbing in a punch bowl.”
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Filed Under (Tech) by Don C on 03-05-2008
It’s a cool idea:
The electronic note system is instead based around a digital pen and special pad, which saves your notes as you jot them down on RFID-embedded Post-Its. Software on your PC then does some quick OCR and, according to the inventors, “uses its understanding of the user’s intentions, content, and the context of the notes to provide the user with reminders, alerts, messages, and just-in-time information.”
But it would be much more useful if you could send about a MB of info to the RFID then hand write on the note what’s in it. So if I wanted to give out my famous meat loaf recipe to someone I could load the recipe into my favorite text editor and click “Send To Sticky”, write on the sticky what it is, rip it off and hand to someone worthy.
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Filed Under (Politics) by Don C on 03-05-2008
I don’t see what the problem is:
“My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East,” McCain said.
The expected GOP nominee sought to clarify his comments later, after his campaign plane landed in Phoenix. He said he didn’t mean the U.S. went to war in Iraq five years ago over oil. (Link)
Of course we did. We absolutely have to have secure uninterrupted access to fuel. I don’t know about McCain’s energy policy, but the statement is accurate and stands without need of clarification.
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