Year: 2006

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…

$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…

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,…

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…

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…

After seeing the movie Cars tonight, I was dying to come back and blog about it. I can’t say I was completely surprised that CKL already wrote about it, but I was glad to see that we differ. (What fun…

In the same vein as Strong Bad Emails, here’s “Ask a Ninja”: It’s also a nice demonstration of how expressive you can be with only half a face. Phooey on those who deride masked superhero, space alien, or other makeup-heavy…

Question: What do Jane Espenson and I have in common? Answer: We both forgot about the application deadline for the Disney Writing Fellowship. Okay, so I didn’t actually forget. My write-a-screenplay-over-Memorial-Day-weekend plan didn’t quite work out, due in part to…

I’ve read this twice– no, three times now– and I keep thinking it’s got to be a joke. From Microsoft’s job listings for MSN Search: Hand crafted resultsWhen all else fails, and the ranking algorithms do not pass the confidence…

It’s been a while since I blathered on about movies. Here’s a braindump: Possibly the best thing about X-Men: The Last Stand was that D and I went with Loren and Suzie, good friends whom we hadn’t seen in a…