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I worked this out in mere seconds, of course.
I have a 64% chance of pulling, which I suspect would have been higher if I hadn't chosen to go drinking with Rodolfo the Goat Herder.
Just tried this European-geography based darts game. I've been in Asia too long.
According to the Living to 100 Life Expectancy Calculator, I'm going to live to the age of 86.
On Gaien Higashi Dori offers you yet another way to waste your time.
I'm Apocalypse Now, apparently:
You are Apocalypse Now. You are a rogue wanderer on the winding river of life, searching after your shadow self.¡É
On thing you can do when you can't concentrate of a Friday afternoon is try to find a googlewhack.
A googlewhack is a combination of two words searched in google (without quotation marks) that returns only one single hit.
I got one just now: mutilation + fruitpicking.
Mutilation and fruitpicking have only been used once together in the whole universe of the Internet. Until today...
I just did the ethical philosophy selector test, and it turns out the philosophers my thinking most resembles are Spinoza and Nietzsche. I knew I should've stopped reading those Herman Hesse novels. Does this mean I'm going to invade Poland?
via Rox Populi
It was the dying minutes of the second leg of a match in a football tournament in South America.
Suddenly, one of the teams deliberately scored an own-goal.
In response, the other team immediately tried to score an own goal too. Seeing this, their opponents tried desperately to stop them.
This is a true story. Memory loss or certified lunacy are not factors.
So, the question is, why? You'll need to be pretty lateral in your thinking without the hint provided in Continue Reading.
Hint: The organizers of the tournament had made a change to the Golden Goal rule. What was the change?
To find the answer, click here and scroll down.
I opened a can of worms on Saturday. There I was, navigating across the Izu peninsula in a gale, trying to drown out the noise of the cicadas, and suddenly it popped into my head: "Is there any way of designing an index of mountain difficulty?" Or in other words, can we design an equation that enables expression of the difficulty of a mountain as a number?
Distance as the crow flies, total distance up, total distance down, actual distance walked and distance not going in the direction of your goal (total distance across) would have to be the variables for the equation we would need to create, I suppose, but there may be many more. In fact, the more I think about this, the more variables appear.
And then there's the matter of data gathering. The more complex the equation is, the more difficult gathering the data for it becomes.
Maybe this is why the only indicator most hiking guides give is the altitude gap (i.e. the difference between the highest point of the hike and the lowest point), which of course is gapingly insufficient when you take distance and ups and downs into account.
Or maybe this explains the purpose of maps.
In another feat of supreme timewasting, I've just had my Japanese name generated for me.
My Japanese name is ±îÅÏ Saruwatari (monkey on a crossing bridge) ³¤ÅÍ Kaito (big dipper of the ocean).
Saruwatari Kaito, "the monkey crossing the bridge of the big dipper of the ocean," has a nice ring to it, don't you think? Very appropriate.
Generate your Japanese name today!
I AM 28% HIPPIE!  I need to step away from the tie-dye. I smell too good to be a hippie and my dad is probably a cop. Being a hippie is not a fashion craze, man. It was a way of life, in the 60¡Çs, man. |
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Who'd of thunk it?
You are a GRAMMAR GOD!
If your mission in life is not already to
preserve the English tongue, it should be.
Congratulations and thank you!
How grammatically sound are you?
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This is what comes of being pedantic for a living, but here's a question for you:
How many things are "a thing or two"?
Here's one to rob you of your valuable time or take your mind off last night's game if applicable, from the master puzzler Paul of BackSeatDrivers.
The rules are:
Everybody has to cross the river. Only 2 persons on the raft at a time. The father cannot stay with any of the daughters without their mother's presence, The mother cannot stay with any of the sons without their father's presence, The thief (striped shirt) can not stay alone with any family member, Only the Father, the Mother and the Policeman know how to operate the raft.
Open it here, then click on the blue circle.
Paul says this is used by Japanese companies as a job interview IQ test. If so, I wouldn't have got the job.
Update: Just looked at the writing. It's Chinese, not Japanese.