OddThinking

Wishing someone a Happy New Year may subject you to a Denial-of-Service Attack

I have been listening to organisations demanding that we defend our human right to die with dignity.

I find myself unable to support them.

Some Unicode characters are just calling for a caption competition. Ṏ “Latin capital letter o with tilde and diaeresis”? Is that the best you can do, Unicode Consortium?

I was just reminiscing about when I enrolled in Biology 1 at uni. They wanted to get a feel for the mathematical literacy of their students, so they gave us all a quick numeracy test, to see if we understood some basic concepts.

There were only four questions, clearly labelled Question 1, Question 2, Question 4 and Question 4.

I think I met the required standard…

One day I was thinking about the tradition of April Fools’ Day RFC Submissions and thought it would be fun to do a similar parody, but based on the Patent Submission form.

He was soon being groomed for the highest public office in the land… There was however, a fly in the ointment.

{To Do: Create a pithy excerpt that makes this article about foreign characters compelling to read.}

One of those stupid ideas that prevents you from getting real work done until it is implemented…

Do we really need to operate?

Mr. World, our teacher, divided our class into groups and gave us a difficult assignment to do. Some project about climate or something. He warned us it was worth a large part of our assessment.

So we all agreed to meet at Denmark’s house (Man, that took a while to organise; most of the term was already done by the time we did.) We started divvying up the work – there was a lot of studying to do – and that’s when the arguments started.