Month: May 2012

Eurovision


Catching up on Eurovision. Laughing so hard it hurts. observations:

  • eurotrash is everywhere. where is the part of europe where hair metal still rules?
  • ~ 70% of the songs are in english
  • this should be held yearly, internationally. cheaper than the olympics and at least as able of bringing people together
  • almost all the songs are the same. this is probably due to most countries wanting to lose, winning makes you host for the next year, so everyone is in a race to the bottom.

2013-05-18: all the tribal tattoos made me think that new jersey was competing, for a very expansive definition of europe.

Exomoons

the first science project i helped fund made its first discovery. so exciting!

As part of the Hunt for the Exomoons with Kepler (HEK) project, the team analyzed recently released Kepler data and identified systems with transiting planets that show transit variations indicative of hidden companions, such as unseen moons or planets. The team identified the Sun-like star known as KOI-872 (KOI stands for Kepler Objects of Interest) as exceptional in that it shows transits with remarkable time variations over 2 hours.

Untalented Temp

There might be an equally untalented filmmaker in your office

Having established a reputation among the Flagstone Marketing staff as a quiet and reserved temporary worker, Kevin Bright completely shocked his coworkers this week when it was discovered that, outside the office, the mild-mannered 27-year-old is actually an embarrassingly unskilled singer-songwriter. “I don’t think Kevin’s said more than 5 words to me in the month he’s been here, so I was really surprised to find out he has this whole pitiful music hobby on the side,” said account executive Sandra Hutchinson, 39, who was among several employees that happened by chance to attend one of the soft-spoken and largely forgettable temp’s horrendous sets at a local coffee shop Tuesday.

Objectivist-C

finally a conceptually pure language.

In Objectivist-C, software engineers have eliminated the need for object-oriented principles like Dependency Inversion, Acyclic Dependencies, and Stable Dependencies. Instead, they strictly adhere to one simple principle: No Dependencies.

In Objectivist-C, there are not only properties, but also property rights. Consequently, all properties are @private; there is no @public property.