Category Archives: Completely Different

Title To Come

Apparently, the author of How to Procrastinate and Still Get Things Done just won an Ig Nobel prize for it — 15 years late.

The article is quite worrying, for, as I have mentioned before, it more-or-less describes much of how I work.

Also relevant: Annals of Procrastination (01/09), Procrastination Prediction Vindicated (02/11).

Incidentally, as regards the 02/11 entry, I did in the end get the book, but I had to return it before I got around to reading it.

The use of hobby blogs as a procrastination tool is left as an exercise for the reader.

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Run For Your Lives!

Homeopathic leak threatens catastrophe:

An accidental release of highly dilute homeopathic waste from a research institute in Swindon has led to calls for the centre to be shut down. Plant operators have admitted responsibility for massive safety blunders after a spilled drop of an enormously dilute test product was cleaned by a caretaker, and in complete disregard of all safety procedures, allowed to enter the water system after he emptied his mop bucket down the drain.

And as we all know, the more dilute it gets, the more powerful it gets…

Next to the Plant are seven abandoned Fire Engines – exposed to such dangerously low concentrations of homeopathic contamination that they can never be used again – they will eventually be entombed in concrete where they lie.

Local Fire Chief, Boutros-Boutros Jones gave a frank account of the current situation; ‘We have to accept that we’ve lost the battle locally, two water treatment works may never be safe to use again, but the fight to contain this and prevent further dilution is still on. Clearly if this reaches the sea, it’s game over.’

It never ceases to amaze me when I visit there just how popular homeopathic remedies are in France.

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Build the Hogwarts College of Law Curriculum

Howard Wasserman asks,

What are the law school equivalents to all of the different courses offered at Hogwarts (Defense Against the Dark Arts, Potions, Spells, etc.)?

Let’s see…

I’d think that “Defense Against Dark Arts” is either the § 1983 practicum, or the course on Conflicts of Law. “Potions” is Tax. Divination is “Law and Film”.

Then again, another way to go about it would be to look at Hogwarts’s first-year curriculum:

  • Astronomy
  • Charms
  • Defense Against the Dark Arts
  • Herbology
  • History of Magic
  • Potions
  • Transfiguration

If we have to map that to first-year courses, then what? Civil Procedure is Transfiguration? Torts is Charms? Well they sound a bit alike…

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Talk About High Concept / Low Comedy

OK Go meets the Muppets

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiMZa8flyYY

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Love, ha-ha, cute, omg, yay, hahaha, happy, girl, hair, lol, hubby, and chocolate!

Twitter now thinks I’m female?

Spotted via Slashdot.

There are two serious sides to this, of course: one is that as more and more things leave digital fingerprints, true anonymity online just gets harder and harder.

The second is that so much of the list of terms seems about as crudely stereotypically sexist as can be. Something not ha-ha about that.

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The Spirit of Rube Goldberg

… is alive and well and taking photos in Canada.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKpxd8hzOcQ

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