OddThinking

In which Julian whinges about two embedded user-interfaces, mainly because he has photos.

Here’s a real life puzzle that I haven’t solved yet; how to choose lollies to maximise distance between flavour repetitions.

How could I possibly put a dollar value on human life?

Let me show you!

The truth behind the Little Red Riding Hood scandal is finally revealed.

Julian makes a pointless pointed comment about the food served in typical US restaurants.

Someone scoundrel went and launched kdice.

Thanks GIO Insurance for ringing me today. You saved me a lot of money!

Can you come up with two different words (spelling irrelevant but different meanings) which are pronounced exactly the same except that the “th” sound is voiced in one and not in the other?

Deep down I fear that one day, I will be outed.

Despite my best efforts to bleat reassurances that I believe that the English language is fluid and changing, and there is no point pretending that there is one correct way to speak it, some linguist is one day going to point at me and yell “Hey! Wait a minute! He’s not a descriptivist! He’s a damn prescriptivist! Get him!”

A very brief examination of the PyGame 1.8 car-wreck.