The math geek in me likes these random facts about the renowned, nay, mythical security expert: #24: Bruce Schneier once found three distinct natural number divisors of a prime number. #51: When Bruce Schneier does modulo arithmetic, there are no…
Month: August 2006
The Two Million Dollar Comma
$2.13 million, actually. See if you can spot the offending punctuation below: Page 7 of the contract states: The agreement “shall continue in force for a period of five years from the date it is made, and thereafter for successive…
Dreams, Forgetting, Capitalism, Game
Lest you think Loren has staged some kind of coup d’état around here, I’m posting this quick thought. A few nights ago, I had the first dream I could remember in a long time. It was more disjointed than usual,…
Hoodwinked (into wasting a couple hours)
When the movie Hoodwinked first opened, it seemed intriguing. A very different animation style, very smart and clever bits in the trailers – I was curious. We watched it recently, and it’s startling that a movie could have so many…
Equal opportunity foodie
I love food like I love music — there is no forbidden. Just as I love country and 80’s love songs, I also love baloney on white bread and Jack-in-the-Box’s 99-cent chicken sandwiches. And just as I like exploring the…