OddThinking

“But, Julian,” I hear you ask, “What words in the English language have the most anagrams?”

A random memory from when I was a kid on holidays in Murray Bridge just occurred to me. I was listening to a local radio station that was running a promotion with a baby food manufacturer. They called their listeners at random, and if they could read off the serial number from a can of […]

Today, I am justifying a particular personal coding standard rule. If I explicitly argue the case, I hope I will conform to it more.

A friend referred to sugar as “the white death”. That made me wonder what other colours there were. Here is the resulting reference chart. Where there were choices to make, I made them. Colour Death Black Bubonic Plague White Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper,White Sugar Red Cocktail Orange This spot available. Yellow Macaroni and Cheese (unreliable) […]

I have an hope for a resolution in the Oatmeal versus FunnyJunk and/or Carreon case that probably reveals something about me.

I wrote the following short story as an assignment in English class when I was 14 years old.

The law is a not a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting away society’s ills. It’s an axe. So, on the spectrum of morally good, past acceptable and tolerable, politically incorrect, unacceptable through to downright evil, the law can only really pick off acts on the extreme end. There is much that is socially unacceptable and morally wrong […]

Wishing someone a Happy New Year may subject you to a Denial-of-Service Attack

I predict no end to the End-Of-The-World references.

I ran a Monte Carlo simulation to test whether occasional attendees have a rosier view of attendance levels than the regulars.