My mind is a terrible thing

I glanced at this three times before I realized it did not say "Dana Fetish Cubes."

He may be cheap, but he's not easy

I thought it was a diss, but it turns out there should have been an M after that figure.

Predictions are hard

Less than four years ago:

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Compounding the hilarity: I got to the above thanks to the site's auto-recommendation mechanism, the if you liked that post you just read you'll probably also like these posts thing.

The post I did read to completion, however, is well worth a look, for geeks of all flavors.

(h/t: MK, via email)

Currency conversion is hard

From the paper of record:

Iliad reported third-quarter revenue of €819 billion, or about $1.1 billion.

Screenshot:

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Or, who knows. Maybe the euro actually did lose three orders of magnitude in value while I wasn't paying attention.

Auto-responding is hard

First bits of an email just in:

Dear Brendan Keefe<(>,<)>

Great news! Your Crucial memory order is packaged and ready to ship

On second inspection, though, that's almost cool enough to think about deploying in the same spirit as those typey things I've heard that the kids use, with their instant AOL messages and such. You know, lalcatz, or something?

Math is hard

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E-commerce is hard!

(The truncation of the e-store's slogan was purely serendipitous.)

Taxonomy Is Hard!

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Ah, well. First day of the new music store. I'm sure they'll get it sorted out eventually.

And I have to say, the part about letting artists upload directly sounds pretty nice.

Math is Hard

Seriously?

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Seriously.

Seen here.

Move over, "Math is Hard!"

A world of feminists weeps, now that future First Sister of Future First Son-in-Law has signed up for one o' them newfangled Internets thingamawhatchas.

Also, is this how they do good wishes, in Alaska there?

Today has been a very eventful day. I congratulate you big brother and my soon to be sister in-law.I hope this is sincere. GoodnightEveryone

(previously)

(h/t: Josh Fruhlinger)

Math is Hard Wacked

Just saw that my main man made it 11 in a row yesterday, after winning the primary called "Democrats Abroad."

Apparently, Obama won the popular vote by a 2-to-1 margin. However:

The overseas Democrats were allocating a small number of delegates … under a proportional system that allotted 2.5 to Obama and 2 to Clinton.

Once the dust settles from this election, I say we teach the DLC basic fractions: