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Category Archives: Randomness

Reminding me why I need to travel more…

My brother sent this to me. I’m not sure who the source is – the original is here. It’s Mt Hua in China.

CO

I’m in Colorado in a semi-rural area in Elbert County in the town of Elizabeth. I get a lot of work done here because there’s not much going on. This is taken from my macbook’s webcam pointed out the window.

Puzzle

Got this via email today.
Can you solve this puzzle?

You are riding on a beautiful white horse.
On your left side is a drop off.
On your right side are several ostriches being chased by a lion.
In front of you are four large gazelles that won’t get out of your way
and you can’t seem to overtake them.
Behind [...]

Oh Wesley!

Even if Wesley Snipes is right about not having to pay his taxes, he’s missing the point. If you’re enjoying the fruits of government infrastructure then you’re morally obligated to pay your taxes. My guess is he’s really not that naive. He’s just fell in with the wrong crowd and dug himself a hole so [...]

California Fire Satellite Map

I found this image on the awesome http://firefighterblog.blogspot.com/ that’s getting a lot of traffic today and is posting a constant stream of fire updates, so be sure to subscribe to his feed if you’re following the fires.
Originally from the MODIS Terra polar orbit Satellite (click the image for the source). The fire appears to have [...]

Wikipedia, Vulcans, Suss-Mahn and cerebral entropy

In case you were looking for it, here’s a list of fictional martial arts courtesy of wikipedia…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_martial_arts
How did I arrive there? I was researching Vulcans.
There’s a martial art called Suss-Mahn used by T’Pol in one of the enterprise episodes (which I just watched for $1.99 courtesy of the awesome Unbox) and it’s named after producer [...]

South Africa are the new Rugby world champs!!!!!!!!!!

It was a tougher game that I expected – in fact it was a bit of a nail biter. But we won and Bryan Habana has been named player of the year by the Rugby Board.

It was cool hanging out with other South Africans at St Andrews pub in Green Lake watching the [...]

Is Google.com down for anyone else?

…or is it just me? Seems to have gone down for a few minutes at a time around 11pm to midnight for the last few evenings. It’s not tied to browser or workstation, but may be tied to our public IP address. All other websites work including news.google.com and blogsearch.google.com – just www.google.com seems to [...]

The Nash Equilibrium & The Prisoners Dilemma

Interesting video I ran across this evening looking for interviews with John Nash:

Stille waters, diepe grond, onder draai die duiwel rond.

I was scrambling through a deep canyon on Sunday on Snoqualmie’s South Fork and ended up at this beautiful quiet pool that looked very deep and had a very nice brookie that grabbed my thin mint streamer after a few casts.
I was reminded of an Afrikaans expression:
“Stille waters, diepe grond, onder draai die duiwel [...]