This morning at breakfast, I had a mental arc related to multitasking. I was shoveling food into my son's mouth with his little baby spoon and into mine with my man-sized tablespoon. Here's how I related it to multitasking:

Using a different spoon (pipeline) for each application (mouth) requires a context switch (putting one spoon...
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A few phrases I am wont to use with my one year old:

When he's screaming during a meal: "Less whine, more dine!"

When he's screaming at bedtime: "Less scream, more dream!"

When he's screaming rather than communicating: "Less squawk, more talk!"

He's a great little boy, but it'll be nice when he learns to...
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"Five Nines" of up-time for a system isn't so hard to achieve as long as you don't define it as 99.999% availability. Here's a little comic to illustrate:

"Our profits are growing exponentially!" Sounds great, right? Not necessarily. Here's a little one frame comic I drew to show how exponential profit growth can actually be a bad thing

I wonder if the producers of the new TV show "LAX" had trouble recruiting actors, considering that anyone who ever leaves the show is going to be an "Ex-LAX star".

BTW, I haven't seen the show, and probably won't--I don't watch a lot of TV.

If breast cancer is detected using mammograms, is prostate cancer detected using sirograms? And will this entry affect the Google ads that appear on this page?

If a politician speaks in the forest, and no one is there to hear him, is he still a liar?

I noticed some traffic coming in from a Korean site to one of my blog entries today. I don't read Korean, so I popped the text into Sherlock for translation, and this is what I got:

This will be contradictory conduct of inside oneself? Yesterday

"against" ' a reflection or an expansion be ' as...
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Yesterday was the deadline for those of us in the United States to file our tax returns for last year. As I looked at that date, April 15, on my blog, I had an idea. An idea of April Fools magnitude. Rather than filing a tax return every year, we could just put our tax...
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "Douglas Ankara". I see a wedding. I see two cities. I see the Orient. I see Spain. The future becomes clear.

On March 28, 1920, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford married. Ten years later the names of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara....
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