“Quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.” Whatever is said in Latin seems profound. —Unknown Why learn Latin? Why not? Latin is the basis of many Western languages, even if they’re all bastard sons of Latin and native tribal languages. I am embarrassingly monolingual, and learning Latin will help me pick up and understand other languages [...]
“I get cat hair sweaters and I don’t even ask for them.” —Michael A., comment on Sweaters from Rover, Awful Library Books, October 15, 2009 Let’s get the ignorance out of the way first: Pet hair sweaters are not pet skin sweaters. Just as wool is sheep hair, and cashmere is goat hair, pet hair [...]
“I’m positive it knew I was trying to shut it off—it somehow jammed its power switch,” Graney said, describing his many attempts to capture and immobilize the Roomba. “Then I noticed that its charger had gone missing.” —Roomba Violates All Three Laws of Roombotics, The Onion, April 14, 2007 Roombas are funny, especially if you’re [...]
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“…Mr. Babbage believes he can, by his engine, form the product of two numbers, each containing twenty figures, in three minutes.” —L. F. Menabrea, Sketch of the Analytical Engine, as translated by Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace. Charles Babbage (1791-1871) never completed his half-baked project, the Analytical Engine. Had it been built, Babbage’s Engine would have [...]
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