depth first search » humor http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done." Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:22:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 XKCD! http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/2010/04/06/xkcd/ http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/2010/04/06/xkcd/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:18:03 +0000 JS http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/?p=2039

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The only window that opens — by just three inches — so the driver can pay a toll or talk with secret service agents running alongside.

Has the president ever had to pay a toll?

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]]> http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/2007/08/28/todays-misc-44/feed/ 0 Nostalgia and Food http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/2007/02/28/nostalgia-and-food/ http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/blog/2007/02/28/nostalgia-and-food/#comments Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:36:17 +0000 JS http://www.depthfirstsearch.net/?p=251 I know this is a bit ridiculous, considering I’d never eat there, but the fact that it was a block away from where we use to live made me a bit nostalgic.

The NY Times review.

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How can you have inverses but still have zero divisors, you may wonder? It’s because nonassociativity is bad juju.

From a comment on this.

Then there’s the following from the same comment thread:

There are illegal primes, but being prime numbers, they are inevitably real, positive, rational, integral, natural and wholesome.

A goldmine!

And here’s a spurious link to a comment on that thread that I might want to write about later.

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The solution was a good hard reboot. I’m not kidding. Total electrical shutdown and power on.

We must have been flying Windows.

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