Schlock Mercenary is a very funny web (and print) comic that I discovered earlier this year via a list at ArsTechnica. In reading up on back issues and back stories, I came across a nice little gem about simulation.
Category Archives: Funny
Simulation vs Reality in Schlock Mercenary
Google is some kind of Glasses
We bought some ski goggles for our kids… and look who have infiltrated that business:
Power Architecture Rip Van Winkle
For some reason (I guess it is the job…) I was browsing through the Power ISA version 2.06 specification last week and hit the following gem of an instruction: “rvwinkle“. It is named after a short story I had never heard about, but which apparently is sufficiently well-known in the US literary canon to warrant a sleep mode being named after it.
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Off-Topic: Firefox 3.5 “Well this is Embarrasing”
I just got a wonderful error message from Firefox 3.5.2:
Off-Topic: Facebook in “English (Pirate)”
I admit to using Facebook more recently… I used to feel “what is the point”… but now I might be starting to see it. Anyway, a Facebook friend pointed out that you can set the UI to a language called “English (Pirate)”, which is pretty funny in use.
Off-Topic: Funny Map of the US
I found this very funny advertisement in an in-flight magazine recently, for the Norwegian business daily Dagens Næringsliv. To understand it, you probably need to know a Scandinavian language. Essentially, the message is that “reading DN contributes to a deeper understanding of the world”.
Off-Topic: 16-bit Overflow
xkcd has had a good streak recently. Here is a very good one.
Off-Topic: My Phone wants a vacation in Greece
I have installed Google Maps on my trusty SonyEricsson G900 (last of its kind, unfortunately, as UIQ is shut down and SE is moving to Nokia S60 etc.), and I find it an almost too fun and useful toy-tool. However, today, something really funny happened. For some reason, when asked to display my current location, it decided that I was in Northern Greece — to within 5000 m.
Off-Topic: Excel Surrealism
As stated in another CS song I like, “I pressed something wrong, what it was, I could not tell…”…
And here is what Excel gave me as a graph. Totally surreal.
I just tried to read Chip Design… but I have to wait three days
This maintenance is going to take a while:
Annoying, and a bit funny.