Happy Halloween...you monster.

Can't wait for Portal 2...
Thanks for the find, Case.

Holy large branching cranial appendages, Batman!

Quick! The Joker is getting away!
To the Bat...mo...deer?

I sniff my rose. Very good taste.

Wow...



...just...wow.

Oh yeeeaah?!???!??!

This was forwarded to me by Mike:


He probably thinks it's funny that a web app classifies me as a woman because most of my writing is "personal" and "happy most of the time". I'm okay with that.
Women are awesome. And most of the time I am happy.

I have my own pie chart for URLAI and it's based on this quote:
"The analysis is based upon 17 posts that has enough English words."



My chart is in 3d. Suck it, URLAI.


Thanks Google Charts.

Money in the Banksy (a followup)

You can read more about Banksy's work on an opening to The Simpsons as reported by the NY Times.
It's an interview with the producer.
I liked this:

Even compared to how “The Simpsons” has mocked Fox in the past, this seemed to push things to a different level. Are you sure there’s no one higher up than you on the corporate ladder who’s displeased with this?

I think that we should always be able to say the holes in our DVDs are poked by unhappy unicorns.

You can view the video in the last post on this subject (updated to HD).
Because...SD?...pshyah...don't even talk to me.

I am on a horse...cow...

That viral Old Spice campaign was pretty annoying. I shall not link to it for that reason.

I like this though.
Maybe I'm just immature. Maybe I like puppets. Maybe both.


Haha! The clam bit the monter's nose.

You are on my blog.

Now go to Casey's, he shared it.

Laughing all the way to the Banksy

Ironically, the creators of The Simpsons outsourced artwork for the show's introduction to street artist Banksy, who highlighted conditions often found in outsourced sweatshops...perhaps not unlike the one in South Korea where much of The Simpsons artwork is produced?



Love the the use of a captive unicorn to poke holes in the DVD discs.

Can I still keep my job?

So...I dip my Special K bar into my yogurt. There. I said it.
Don't act like you've never been curious.

It's just that today, I happened to do it before I remembered to unwrap it.
And the Vice President of Software Engineering happened to walk by my office and witness it.
An office door could have its advantages...

Oh well, at least I wasn't caught sniffing whiteboard markers like Tiberiu:

Un pez con algunos bichos.

Came home and saw that my cleaner shrimp had molted again.
It seems to do this once or twice a month, but this time it looked like it somehow slipped out of there without even leaving a hole, just like a fart.
The hermit crab (Zoidberg) and the cleaner shrimp (Shrump) shed their skin to grow. In the wild as well as in my tank, they will leave the exoskeleton out in plain sight to distract predators while in their weakened state. Indeed when I dropped the frozen brine shrimp in there last night, old Shrumpy stayed back behind the rocks, out of sight, instead of rushing out all over the tank to snag up the food before the fish did.
I took some pictures. I had to last night because by this morning, I (correctly) figured that the exoskeleton would be gone, eaten by Shrump in the night.
Crabs and shrimp will sneak back out and ingest their old protection to acquire the nutrients they need to regenerate new protection (science is awesome!!).


Shrimp but no Shrump


Zoidberg investigating the matter


Will the real Shrump please...hang on to the rock


Magneto overpowering a shell


Rotated 90 along the Z


Wrasse is too fast to get a clear shot




Magneto, housed in a glass and plastic prison for our safety


Took some more if you're interested.


Not into reef tanks? Check out this awesome video from The Black Keys:

//I feel like my commentary is ignored by the compiler.

Thanks to Casey for this link.
It's a collection of some of the most memorable comments found in software code.
For those that don't know what that is, you can insert comments into your computer program by prepending your comment text with some predefined characters, such as "#" for shell scripting or "//" for C and Java programming languages.
Text that begins with such character strings will be ignored when your code is run or compiled into an executable.
Comments help future programmers who might need to maintain your work by either explaining what your code is supposed to do, assumptions you've made, why certain functions are necessary, temporary workarounds, etc.
For the programmers themselves, commenting also allows an outlet for some imagined social connection or pent up cynicism, creativity, and humor.

Like this:
//
// Dear maintainer:
//
// Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,
// and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
// please increment the following counter as a warning
// to the next guy:
//
// total_hours_wasted_here = 32
//

and this:
// I dedicate all this code, all my work, to my wife, Darlene, who
// will have to support me and our three children and the dog
// once it gets released into the public.

and also this:
doRun.run(); // ... "a doo run run".

and finally, my favorite, which I might use in my own work to prevent other engineers from changing my code in some misplaced fit of "I bet I can do this better...":
// The following is autogenerated, do not edit.
// All changes will be undone.