07.03.09
Eye Chart 2.0
06.06.09
Mac Classic II
Check out the finding at the furniture store today… a Mac Classic II was sitting on a desk in the floor room as a prop…
05.11.09
Tomfoolery
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.
-Pierre Gallois
Stress Canary
I have a new definition… I was surprised when wikipedia and even the urban dictionary didn’t have a definition for the term “stress canary”.
Stress Canary - noun
- the person on a team or project that feels the effects of stress well before anyone else
- a modern version of a canary in a coal mine, someone who reacts to stress as an early warning signal
05.02.09
Perseverence
Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
– Calvin Coolidge
04.28.09
Colbert is Not Joking
From the Huffington Post:
Additionally, there was no significant difference between the groups in thinking Colbert was funny, but conservatives were more likely to report that Colbert only pretends to be joking and genuinely meant what he said while liberals were more likely to report that Colbert used satire and was not serious when offering political statements. Conservatism also significantly predicted perceptions that Colbert disliked liberalism. Finally, a post hoc analysis revealed that perceptions of Colbert’s political opinions fully mediated the relationship between political ideology and individual-level opinion.
The title of the original research paper was “The Irony of Satire“. It would certainly be ironic if The Colbert Report actually made conservatives more entrenched in their opinions.
This might also explain how Colbert was able to perform at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner back in 2006 without any of the event organizers thinking it was a bad idea…
