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Wednesday Mystery
This is a true story. The names have been changed and some personal details have been blurred by request. In the American heartland, there lives a university professor named Fletcher. Like most...
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This is not a blog post
From the Twitter feed of my brilliant friend (and Usenet legend) Tim Pierce: CAPTCHA: Click on all the squares that are not a pipe. Click here to comment or read others’ comments.
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Hypothetical Questions
Suppose, for the sake of argument, that the following three things are true: You believe, to the depths of your soul, that the future freedom, safety and prosperity of your 300 million countrymen...
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Ups and Downs
There are two kinds of people in this world: The first kind wonders why people stand still on escalators but not on stairs. The second kind wonders what’s wrong with the first kind. After all, if you...
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Escalating Matters
There were a lot of great comments on my recent post about escalators, but none better than Bennett Haselton’s, which is so good I want to highlight here in a separate post. I’m going to strip his...
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Escalators (The Geeky Version)
I hadn’t expected this escalator business (and see also here) to go on so long, but there have been a lot of smart comments, and a lot of smart disagreements, and a lot of smart changing and...
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Walls Versus Walls
The President of the United States tweets that his proposed border wall is essentially “the same thing” as a wall built around the Obamas’ house (or presumably anyone else’s house) to keep away...
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