Saturday, January 3, 2009
All the comedy kids are making funny animated videos using the tools at xtranormal. I decided to try to make a scary one. I’m not sure if it made it all the way to scary; but I definitely reached the point of creepily dumb.
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Oh, also: I have an improv show this Sunday, and there’s an [...]
Friday, December 12, 2008
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
82148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128
48111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196
44288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091
45648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273
Full disclosure: I made two silly mistakes, now corrected, both times substituting a 2 for a 0.
Fuller disclosure: I have embraced the madness, and am now shooting for 1000 decimal places. Then I’ll stop. For sure.
Fuller disclosure, still: Unless it seems possible to go for 5000. Which, to my (slowly unraveling) mind, [...]
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Using techniques described by Harry Lorayne, I’ve been able to somewhat easily and enjoyably memorize the following number (broken up into two lines, so wordpress won’t freak out):
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
That’s 100 decimal places. And I generally dislike numbers. And memorizing things.
I think I’m going to stop at 100, for three reasons:
1. Checking for errors takes a really [...]
Thursday, November 20, 2008
One of the great joys of Modern Digital Blogging is the ability to see exactly how many people are reading each blog entry, and, if they followed a link or a search result to get there, what that link or search result was.
Every day people are driven to my blog by the single post in [...]
Monday, September 1, 2008
A little something for the kids to use in their internet discussion groups:
10 fake names from e-mails currently in my spam folder. Plus something I made up about each imaginary person.
1. Cecelius Xiao-Gua: Collects shampoo bottles
2. Ellsworth Tzila: Has an overly firm handshake
3. Mohamd McSchooler: Knows your cousin
4. Falkner Fenton: Just insulted your pants
5. Jehu Lancelot: Has dangerous secrets
6. Naren Mmmmmm: Should not be invited to [...]
Hey, friends with blogs that I don’t currently link to: Do you want me to link to you?
At the moment I only have links to bloggers that I’m pretty certain wouldn’t mind visits from random strangers. The blogs all talk about funny stuff, and assorted cool things, and so forth.
Your blogs talk about your political views, [...]
Wordpress allows you to write rough drafts of blog posts. At the moment I have a whole slew of half-assed drafts, few of which will likely ever see the (digital) light of (virtual) day. In the spirit of Just Doing It, here is one of those drafts. Enjoy!
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It wasn’t that anyone in the [...]