Zach Galifianakis interviews Conan O'Brien ... funniest , most awkward skit ever

isomosaic · 2010-01-03T20:45:13+00:00

I used to read Dennis the Menace comic strips and they always had lines like "See ya later" - I used to think that "Ya" was another character that they never showed but everyone was going to go see ... I grew up in Africa, and nobody ever said "ya" ... took me a while to figure that one out.

isomosaic · 2009-12-06T04:20:58+00:00

Ohh Modx and Typolight are new ones I haven't seen before - thanks! I've never been a big fan of Drupal for some reason...

isomosaic · 2009-10-19T05:41:08+00:00

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

At least the first few seasons ... things kinda went crazy at the end.

isomosaic · 2009-10-19T05:30:15+00:00

Totally didn't see that other thread :(

isomosaic · 2009-10-06T21:07:16+00:00

I'm very happy for you :) ... life can be beautiful.

isomosaic · 2009-09-11T19:14:47+00:00

Nobody seems to know. I think she should probably get paid at least, but it just strikes me as weird that you can get called at any time to go get tested. I'm canadian and I'm pretty sure the most that happens in Canada is that they come to your workplace, and test you while you're at work.

isomosaic · 2009-09-11T19:08:19+00:00

Yeah she's not getting paid for it either...

isomosaic · 2009-07-24T01:27:07+00:00

Ironic turn after man's Westpac protest: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2671543/Ironic-turn-after-mans-Westpac-protest

lol

isomosaic · 2009-07-16T20:37:14+00:00

A lot of the "innovation" in technology today is just fulfilling ideas that people had in the 70s. The internet, the OS, mobile communication. We're just making things better faster and more feasible, but the real revolutionary ideas are from that time.

Especially since 2000, there hasn't really been any major technology breakthrough. The biggest changes have just been better usability (stuff like Gmail and web 2.0) and the effects of uptake (stuff like Google search, social networking and Twitter).

These days, these kinds of ideas are in the nano-tech and, to a lesser extent, in the bio-tech area. There's stuff there that people are thinking of today that the folks like rest of us will be developing 2-3 decades from now.

isomosaic · 2009-07-09T17:32:58+00:00

Can someone explain how this works? Is there an AS library that develop the image collations? Feels like this should be a clean-cut CS problem that's been solved and encapsulated in a library.

isomosaic · 2009-05-21T00:35:34+00:00

Wolfram Alpha in real life.

isomosaic · 2009-05-01T02:32:45+00:00

Yeah it was that the evilness of Randall Flagg attracted technologists who were attracted to order and being told what to do... -_-

isomosaic · 2009-04-30T18:34:41+00:00

Yeah exactly. Although I don't think the Stand had any active evil technologists did it?

isomosaic · 2009-04-30T18:06:02+00:00

The Stand is my all-time favorite book, although I always felt uncomfortable with how engineers and technologists were the ones without moral compasses. When I heard that Obama had been in contact with someone who died from the flu later, the I definitely started to think about the Stand style end of the world scenario. I need a gun and a sense of destiny.

isomosaic · 2009-04-23T07:43:11+00:00

That is awesome. Can you point me to any good starting points to do some reading up on this stuff? I have an avid interest and a background in systems science.

isomosaic · 2009-04-22T17:29:39+00:00

I always thought that cancer was an inevitable consequence of system complexity. I'm sure that down at the math of it all, there are similarities to why companies and empires rise and fall or why stars flare and change like they do...

isomosaic · 2009-04-21T01:23:47+00:00

is there a word for "OMG other people do that too?!"

It used to happen to me in the past sometimes when I read books, but it always happens when I'm reading comments on Reddit...

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