OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Flash Flashguns

I recently purchased some new flashgun-related camera equipment. I am out of my depth. I need to have mastered it in two weeks for an event, and so I have been practising, with rather mixed results. This is a brain-dump to help me think through the issues.

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The Rigger and the T-Shirt

But, today’s story isn’t about audience participation or nudity. It is about the rigger and the t-shirt.

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WordPress Plugin Idea: Prevent Undermining by Social News sites

I have a great idea for another plugin for WordPress

It detects when people are redirected from Reddit.

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Age, Membership Length and Reputation Distribution on StackOverflow

Inspired by a post there, I wrote a simple web-crawler that looked at the age, membership length and reputation of the users of StackOverflow.

I describe the method below, for people who like hearing about software. I graph the results below for people who like looking at colourful graphs. At the bottom, I have a quick conclusion for people who just want the summary.

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Categories: Doubleplus Geek,Observation
Tags: graphs, stackoverflow, statistics

Separating the Good from the Bad

This line of thought occurred to me last night; I am just putting it down here until I find a better place to put it.

Have you ever considered the strengths and weaknesses of the people you know?

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Butterfly Verbing

The sign at the butchery advertised “Butterflyed Chicken”.

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Categories: Observation
Tags: etymology, grammar, linguistics, Observation, signs

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If you value your sense of humour, or if you value mine, you won’t read this post. It doesn’t end well.

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A Critique of Three Puzzles and a Poem

In which Julian grumbles pointlessly about a couple of word puzzles and a kid’s poem, and then is reminded of a better example of a word puzzle, discovers something interesting about a puzzle’s origin, and goes off a little happier.

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Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: linguistics, puzzles, use-mention

Crime Doesn’t Play

I have broken the law five times. What I did is a secret.

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