OddThinking

1. What colour was the Lone Ranger’s white horse?
2. Who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb?
3. Who wrote Gray’s Anatomy?

Here’s what I want in an Open Source license…

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!

Someone scoundrel went and launched kdice.

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.

In what direction does the sun set?

One day, I am going to do some original research into a question that has plagued and haunted me – nay, us all – for years – a question that needs to be solved, once and for all, if we are ever to live in a harmonious society.

On a shared office printer, are mandatory banner pages simply a waste of paper?