Disclaimer: this post is about the subconscious, not real life. Do not attempt this in real life. Lucid dreams can be a great experience since you are in total control of your actions, and not bounded by many physical or scientific constraints. You can fly at supersonic speed, ride elevators out of buildings and into space, among other thrills. Unfortunately, …
As I promised the other day, I would sequel Pet Peeves #2 with my fingerprint rant. Here we are. Even as a pet peeve of mine, I have to admit that fingerprints aren’t all that bad. After all, they help law enforcement identify suspects and they help all of us get a grip on surfaces. But while fingerprints are so …
ACLU is simply an amazing search engine. It can tell you so much, from the center of mass of a planar lamina to the amount of calories in a pizza, to unemployment. One does not have to look further than their home page, which contains a plethora of icons scattered about, to see the sheer amount of information possessed by …
As of this post, there are only 6 people in space, all aboard the ISS. How do I know? This website: http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/ Hopefully, we’ll see this number grow enormously as we start commercializing space travel. Until then, space is only for the highly privileged and rich.
Every six months or so, I receive the Yellow Pages for my city and surrounding regions. For the past seven years, I’ve noticed a very interesting phenomenon. If you look at the first page of the White Pages section, it is all a bunch of companies with prefixes: “A”, “AA”, “AAA”, and so on. The number of As before the …