It's the most convoluted explanation I could find.
A song written and performed by an anti-establishment“anti-establishment,” anti-war group, played by shadowy government agents to torture suspected terrorists into giving up information? That’s not the only good one on this list. Via this article.
Edit- Fine – Born in the U.S.A. is also on that playlist.
In the last two weeks:
I’ve fixed most of them, but… fuck! Even in the future nothing works!
Americans, in particular, prefer shorter sentences without, as style books advise, that distinct division between statements that are closely related but require a separation more prolonged than a conjunction and more emphatic than a comma.
This is what passes for humor among punchy journalists.
Via NY Times.
I think I need a new set of priority definitions for work. They’ll go:
A new coffee maker materialized at work the other day. Someone’s been setting it to run in the morning. The old one is sitting, unplugged, on a side table, looking dejected.
A second new coffee maker appeared a little while ago, boasting a fresh pot of java. Really.
My first thought: “Is the population of coffee makers going to expand in a linear or exponential fashion?”
My second thought: “What we have here is an excellent real world demonstration of Krupps mitosis.”
I’ll be here all week.
Probably the third time I’ve come across this kind of question this month. Is that normal?
From a boingboing comment thread, this excellent explanation by Guysmiley:
To increase orbital altitude, you need to increase rotational velocity, that is velocity at the tangent to “down”.
Simply pushing an object “up” will not increase it’s orbital altitude. It will only increase its eccentricity.
If you think about it, you can’t just go straight up and say “yay, I’m in orbit!”. The hard part about getting into orbit is getting going fast enough to fall at the Earth and miss.
Just a tip for good managers: If you call on your team to put in overtime, don’t go home in full sight of them. If you make a subordinate stay late to work on something that either of you can cover, don’t pack and leave in front of them as they power their workstation back up. Have the decency to sneak out the back.
Also, if you assign someone to grok 1500 lines of code, don’t get all indignant if they haven’t finished in three hours. Especially if you’ve also assigned several priority assignments on the same deadline.
I’m just saying.
This kind of thing explains everything to me. Play with it a bit and maybe you’ll see what I mean.