Internet Meme Develops into Unsettling Trend

nospam@example.com (TML) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:17:21 -0600

Came across this meme on a friend’s blog, and it sounded kind of interesting, so I thought I’d give it a try.

The rules, as I got them, are as follows:

Put your music player on shuffle
Press forward for each question
Use the song title as the answer
NO CHEATING!!! What you get is what you get!

I’m more than a little bit disturbed by the pattern that began to develop as the experiment wound on…fortunately, I can point it all to the fact that I didn’t have very much music loaded on my ipod when I did this, so maybe I can try it again later with a broader selection of my music and it will end up feeling a bit less like my ipod is trying to question my sexual orientation.

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The Halting Problem in the Style of Ted Geisel

nospam@example.com (TML) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:40:57 -0700

ProggIt had this amusing gem today, but it’s pretty obscure, so I put it here instead of the Homestarmy

So where can this argument possibly go?
I don’t have to tell you; I’m sure you must know.
By reductio, there cannot possibly be
a procedure that acts like the mythical P.

Great stuff.

A River of Words - CPH12Y

Internet Meme Develops into Unsettling Trend

The Halting Problem in the Style of Ted Geisel