Was watching House, MD yesterday. At one point of the episode, he (Dr. House) says in defense of his bad bedside manners, “Do you want a doctor who holds your hand while you get worse, or a doctor who ignores you while you get better?”
Me, I’d rather have a Dr. House than a Dr. Doolittle. [...]
Archive for July, 2006
Dr. House
Posted in Nonsense on July 31, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Better mice
Posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
They call this the zero tension mouse — it’s supposed to be ergonomic. Perhaps it’s more comfortable than it looks, but I think this is one of the worst attempts at an ergonomic pointing device I’ve ever seen. The design is based on the assumption that much of mouse-related stress can be overcome with a [...]
Performancing: blogging extension for FireFox
Posted in Computing on July 27, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I just installed a really great FireFox extension for blogging, called Performancing for FireFox. I’m using it to write this post. I used to be a die hard w.bloggar fan, but this is so handy that I just might switch to using it full time. It’s just a matter of click and type within FireFox. [...]
Degauss
Posted in Nonsense on July 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Think twice about buying shoes with thick rubber soles if you work in an air-conditioned environment. I did, and now I have to suffer two or three mild static electric shocks everyday — whenever I touch our metal cubicle paritions, I discharge (When I go to meet another person, like most people in the office, [...]
Monkeys on typewriters
Posted in Uncategorized on July 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a popular analogy used to demonstrate how an unlikely event the emergence of life is. The likelihood of something as remarkable as man eventually emerging from a process that started out as a bunch of molecules 4 billion years ago, is equated to the probability of some hundreds of monkeys randomly stomping on typewriters [...]
