Le commentaire de mes moutons: 'Ah, la vache.'Bildquelle: NZZ 30.xi.2010
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Who's afraid of big, bad, misguided feminists?
I put this video on YouTube a couple of years ago and got all sorts of irate comments from would-be feminists.
Well, I think it's funny. And boo sucks to all those who don't.
Monday, June 01, 2009
@@ COMPUTER ONE LINERS @@
Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.
The secret of the universe is @*&^^^ NO CARRIER
Did anyone see my lost carrier?
Error, no keyboard - press F1 to continue (I know this one!)
Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity.
Ever notice how fast Windows runs? Neither did I.
Double your drive space - delete Windows!
C program run. C program crash. C programmer quit.
Is reading in the bathroom consider multi-faceted ?
Honey, I Formatted the Kid!
Your e-mail has been returned due to insufficient voltage.
Who is General Failure and why is he reading my disk?
Multitasking: Screwing up several things at once...
Maniac: An early computer built by nuts...
Stack Error: Lost on a cluttered desk...
Stack Overflow: Too many pancakes...
Capt'n! The spellchecker kinna take this abuse!
ASCII to ASCII, DOS to DOS.
How do I set my laser printer on stun?
'Calm down -- it's only ones and zeros.'
'.... now touch these wires to your tongue!'
According to my calculations the problem doesn't exist.
It said, "Insert disk #3," but only two will fit!
RAM DISK is not an installation procedure!
Computers are only human.
This time it will surely run.
I just found the last bug.
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
It's redundant! It's redundant!
Bug? That's not a bug, that's a feature.
The programmer's nat'l anthem is 'AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH'
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must
be the process of putting them in. -Dykstra
Logic: The art of being wrong with confidence...
To iterate is human; to recurse, divine.
If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0
Maintenance-free: When it breaks, it can't be fixed...
Microwave: Signal from a friendly micro...
Nostalgia: The good old days multiplied by a bad memory...
Asking if computers can think is like asking if submarines can swim.
AAAAAA - American Association Against Acronym Abuse Anonymous
CCITT - Can't Conceive Intelligent Thoughts Today
This message transmitted on 100% recycled electrons (alternatively: free-range electrons).
Justify my text? I'm sorry but it has no excuse.
Programming is an art form that fights back.
Backups? We doan *NEED* no steenking baX%^~,VbKx *
My mail reader can beat up your mail reader.
Never forget: 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.
To define recursion, we must first define recursion.
Good programming is 98% sweat, 1% coffee, and 1% Ongbun.
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Les nouvelles béatitudes 1 & 2
Heureux les imbéciles, car ils seront normés
Heureux les intolérants, car ils seront légiférés
Monday, February 02, 2009
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Oh, WOW!!!
Check this:
http://www.closeharmony.ch/upload/files/mp3/freienwil/geschter_live.mp3
Can't help being a little bit proud of it...
http://www.closeharmony.ch/upload/files/mp3/freienwil/geschter_live.mp3
Can't help being a little bit proud of it...
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Time to catch up with things...
... before it starts snowing again.
Time has passed, so has Ronny. Tango now enjoys the company of Samba, whose main occupation (when she's not uprooting plants) is growing.
And boy, is she good at that.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
E io che credevo fosse amore...
© The Economist, Vol. 378 # 8467 dd. 04.iii.2006
Sexual selection: Facing the truth
Are rugged good looks really more attractive?
Okay girls. 'Fess up. Do you prefer rugged, testosterone-fuelled good looks in a man, or more sensitive facial features? And why? A thousand women's magazines have blazed a trail in asking that question, but evolutionary biologists are now treading cautiously in their wake. The latest group to tiptoe into the minefield is led by Lisa DeBruine, of the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland. She and her colleagues have attempted to reconcile the sometimes conflicting results obtained by previous researchers in a paper just published in the "Proceedings of the Royal Society".It is well established that facial features rated as masculine (square-jawed, rugged, that sort of thing) are the result of high testosterone levels. There is a good evolutionary reason why such features should be attractive, and it is that such faces also indicate a strong immune system.
One of the unfortunate side-effects of being male is a higher death rate, at any given age, than if you are female. Part of the cause of this is that testosterone suppresses the immune system, leaving high-testosterone individuals particularly vulnerable to infection. So a man who has made it to sexual maturity despite his high testosterone levels probably has a particularly good immune system, which he can pass on to his children.
That is the good news. The bad news is that a man with high testosterone is more likely to love you and leave you, so you might want to settle for Mr. Nice Guy and his more effeminate features. Not surprisingly, then, the data are equivocal about which sort of face women prefer.
The problem that Dr. DeBruine spotted is that this equivocation might be real – with different women pursuing, albeit unconsciously, different reproductive strategies – or it might be an artefact of the way the experiments have been conducted. These sorts of studies usually rely on photographs that have been manipulated to make the faces in them look either more masculine, or less so. Since different groups of researchers have hit on different methods of manipulation, it might be that the women involved in the experiments are reacting to something about the methods in a way that is different from their reaction to real faces.
Dr. DeBruine and her colleagues identified three manipulation methods. One works by extrapolating the shape differences between average men's and women's faces and morphing a man's face accordingly. Another uses a range of faces, independently rated for masculinity, as its starting point, and also allows a role for colour as well as shape. The third relies on tracking the way men's faces actually do change through puberty. Using the same basic faces, the team generated six versions of each – a masculinised and a feminised pair for each of the three manipulation methods.
What they found was that the manipulation method made no difference. Women really do vary in the degree of masculinity they prefer. Good news for wimps, then. Moreover, Dr. DeBruine found that women's preferences as measured by the test agreed closely with the perceived degree of masculinity of the real-life partners of those who were in stable relationships. Every pot, as the proverb has it, finds its cover.
But it is not all bad news for the hypermasculine. Past research has suggested that, regardless of their average preferences, women are most attracted to hypermasculine features when they are most likely to conceive, and that the effect is particularly exaggerated in women who are in stable relationships. Evolution has thus arranged things so that if a woman does cuckold her man, she is likely to gain the maximum advantage in terms of children with good immune systems, and sons who will have similarly rakish good looks and behaviour. Just don't tell your husband that.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
You know, I'm beginning to enjoy this
The shovel is an extension of the hand. The hand is an extension of the arm. The arm is joined to the shoulder (twice). The shoulders are part of the back.
And my back hurts!!
It would be hell if it wasn't so beautiful. But it's supposed to rain tomorrow.
A rare picture of Ronni where you see a little more than a black blob with some tan.
Monday, March 06, 2006
Pace dopo la tempesta... di bits e di neve
Having managed to retrieve my blog (which only goes to show I am not as confortable in html as I imagined) AND shovelled tons of snow between saturday night and this morning I can now put my feet up for a well-deserved rest.
And add a couple of pictures, like:
This shows how much snow I really had...
Incredible at this time of the year. When the sun came out sunday midday it was beautiful, all these pristine spreads of field untouched by human, em, foot...
Tango, being young and fit, enjoys "swimming" and is a bit quieter than usual as a consequence of all this jumping about in the snow, which reaches his midflank.
And add a couple of pictures, like:
This shows how much snow I really had...
Incredible at this time of the year. When the sun came out sunday midday it was beautiful, all these pristine spreads of field untouched by human, em, foot...
Tango, being young and fit, enjoys "swimming" and is a bit quieter than usual as a consequence of all this jumping about in the snow, which reaches his midflank.
