Intel/PPC oddity Dec 23, 2006 Software ideas up for grabs Nov 11, 2006 Debugging Assembler on Mac OS X Nov 4, 2006 Nice Intel assembler text... Oct 27, 2006 Red Sweater Blog: Build your own damn HIG Oct 22, 2006 Category or Delegate? Oct 18, 2006 Carbon for the...
Figure 1.Acer negundo, also known as box elder. Its common name is an oddity in itself, as it doesn’t include “maple.” But that’s not what’s going on here. A closer examination of the leaves (Figure 2) also reveals a lumpy trunk (Figure 3) – and venturing around the trunk...
A huge mean alien that lived in a crater as seen in Space Oddity. Big Green Dragon A dragon that got sick in Sick Bag. Big Loud Dog A dog that was barking at Milton in Trash Cat. Big Purple Alien Inmate An alien that had Pizza Steve as his shirt in Prison Break. Billy A ...
(It is also worth remembering, for perspective, that if you take Tylenol for four days as directed you may be at risk of [permanent] liver damage; in other words, everyday Tylenol is a substantially more serious liver risk than any steroid. Major-League Baseball is scarcely likely to ban...
Time for some backstory. I first encountered Hart’s writing a little over a decade ago, when he wrote a pair of pieces complaining about the myriad failings of common usage. He passed judgement on the correct meanings of words including infer, hopefully, fortuitous, intrigue, momentarily, pre...
But yesterday’s oddity pops up everywhere today. Neo-vegetarianism affects us all. It’s all described very well by Jane Kramer’s excellent review of veggie cookbooks in the April 14 New Yorker, “…from one chili party to the next, everything changed. Seven formerly enthusiastic carnivores...
When my son Alyosha was ten and I did so, he would examine me with a questioning eye, as if he were viewing an oddity—a father who makes remarks about something that, in our culture, no longer seems to matter. I think the breaking point that launched me upon my Molly Hatchet ...
about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies...
Naturally, counter-intuitiveness and oddity is in the eye of the beholder. Full disclosure: He was my graduate advisor. An always-supportive, kind, wise and inspirational graduate advisor. Unless this post counts. This is why Brian Nosek and the Center for Open Science made exactly the right ...
It gets worse when you talk programming languages. Sure, the vocabulary is smaller, and the rules of grammar and syntax, while different for each, are fairly rigid and well defined. Yet, if you look at the actual words used – if, until, go, class, procedure, etc., theylooklike englis...