Bob Salmon

Pun perfection

Tell me your colleagues are cats without telling me your colleagues are cats (who can talk or type).

Rage Against The Machine - I think the machine in question was printers.

Why don't you make like a tree and slowly grow while helping others around you grow too.

If their usage of it were err... random, then there would eventually be periods of sustained high usage (before reverting to closer to the mean). So is their use of stochastic stochastic? (Not a pair of words I ever expected to put together.)

Button that says ‘I I had a dollar for every time algebra has helped me, I’d have n dollars.

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Physics says that the longer the pipe the more torque it puts on your mouth. Was this a form of weight training for jaw muscles?

I thought it was soil with the appropriate drainage, moisture, pH and nutrients.

YouTube video by Numberphile How do fish swim so quickly?

That reminds me of a lovely video about how tails help fish to swim quickly, via pushing balls down into water and letting them bob up again: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYDh...

I know that the pen is mightier than the sword, but I'm covering all the bases

To misquote Monty Python: It's written 'luxury jet' but it's pronounced 'Pocket-stuffer Griftbag'.

Traverse board - Wikipedia

Wonderful! It reminds me of one of these en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travers...

The Magnificent Fourteen.
Ten Children and Those.
The 78 Steps.
The Sixth Man.

If it extended to TV, that could mean: Blackadder Goes Eighth.

Don't forget the nasal septum. It's the drummer of the academic zoom nose world, in the background while the nostrils get all the attention like the lead singer and guitarist.

Alt-Txt: Two people stand before multi-color strips of paper with text on them that stretch down an entire wall and onto the floor. The title of the installation "I Agree" appear in all caps on the wall, too.

Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

One of the tastier ways to eat your words

Looks like he's getting ready to cook a nice book kebab.

Also, doesn't it risk cannibalising the X/Truth Social market? How much appetite is there actually for "free speech"? There's only so much faux victimhood to go around.

Is she based in the USA these days? If so, it could be called: Lettuce from America.

Why Do Objects Float or Sink in Water? Buoyancy | Britannica Learn what determines whether an object in water will float or sink.

Unless you get help from e.g. flying creatures lifting the boat, I thought it was when the boat's displacement was greater than its weight: www.britannica.com/video/Discus...

There's a special skill in being able to make a 3d object (jeans in this case) from 2d objects, including remembering seam allowance etc. Next level is knitting: 1d object (yarn) -> 2d -> 3d (socks, tea cosy etc.) All power to them.

In the future if all bills etc. arrive electronically, will writing on the back of envelopes be considered a quaint bygone thing like lamplighters?

Also, is the online comment the modern equivalent of writing in the margin of books?

It's also an illustration of how hard it is for little children to know where their coif is, let alone have it on their head. This is a universal truth that transcends social class.

Tang (tools) - Wikipedia

Nice illustration of the tang vs. blade (like root vs. above ground parts of a plant or tree). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_(t...

Ah yes, that time again. Mandatory corporate training using the platform that applies the 'needs more cowbell' approach to vertical scrollbars. That's right - 3 vertical scrollbars, next to each other, because 1 and even 2 aren't enough.

Ambassador, with these scrollbars you are spoiling us.

Mike and his baking partner have researched horse bread from the historical sources* and discovered that different kinds of horse bread were made for different stages in a horse's preparation for a race.

* This level of effort and attention to detail is not unusual for Kentwell.

When two disparate parts of my contact group converge. Historian of books and paper @dbellingradt.bsky.social, and computer resilience expert @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com.

Commentate on your code Sometimes a method mixes levels of abstraction, where one section goes into more detail than the rest of the method.  This can make it hard to understand – code can be hard to understand when it’s …

I have similar advice for programmers, although less musical and more sporty: randomtechthoughts.blog/2024/09/28/c...

@lizanne.bsky.social you might also be interested in something I made quite a while ago: historicalme.org.uk/wor/royalfam...

Multiplying using halving, doubling and summing I was introduced to an interesting way of multiplying two numbers (integers greater than 0) recently, at a Tudor re-enactment at Kentwell Hall. It took me a while to realise what was going on behin…

There's a slightly more complex approach, which I've blogged about before: randomtechthoughts.blog/2022/07/23/m... /3