Sunday Funnies

From the Smithsonian.  Video on CNN

Back in July, eight-year-old Saga Vanecek was playing in a lake near her family’s summer home in Sweden. She reached into the water and pulled out what she thought was a stick—but quickly realized that it was something far more special.

“Daddy, I found a sword!” she cried, according to Catherine Edwards of the Local Sweden.

Saga’s family subsequently alerted the Jönköpings Läns Museum to the discovery, and experts there have ...

This image from Pinterest seemed familiar to me.  In technology we have similar sayings.  Terms such as PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair), Identity Error or ID-10T/1D-10T error (idiot error), PICNIC (Problem In Chair, Not In Computer), IBM error (Idiot Behind Machine error) and other similar phrases are used as slang in technical circles with derogatory meaning.

Thanks Uncle Ron!

I couldn’t resist this Pinterest pic, what with my 3 part investigation on Russian cyber-espionage beginning tomorrow.

What is the biggest plant in the world?  The fungus that ate the UP?  This is the second largest organism in the world, right behind another gigantic fungus in Oregon that covers 3 square miles.  But wait, there’s a quaking aspen grove in Utah that is one large genetic clone organism weighing 13 million pounds and sharing a single root system.   An interesting pair of articles from the Smithsonian.  Fungus vs Continue Reading →

Another campaign season behind us and what did we get?  What we deserved, I guess.

Dancing with the Stars is proof that popular elections don’t work.  When Juan Pablo Di Pace, with 4 perfect 30s including two in the semi finals, gets voted off with Grocery Store Joe Amapoli, who rightfully should have been gone in Week 4 (and ...