Once upon a time, there was a fish who hated the sea. Everywhere he looked, all he SAW was sea. He did not like the sea, but it is all that he saw. The fish saw the sea, and said,… Read more…
Archive for Abdullah Hamad
Deaths In The Halls Of “Higher” Education
The old maxim, “Know your enemy”, falls flat when the act of learning casts suspicion on the student. I studied Japanese and Arabic, two cultural groups with low prestige that come under suspicion by cons in the US, and found… Read more…
The Devil Is In The Details
Up late, burning the midnight oil, and running math calculations on my smartphone while comparing the website character profiles to the in-game stat sheets. https://us.battle.net/forums/en/d3/topic/20771517006… Original Post: 2 hours ago (Edited) https://us.diablo3.com/en/profile/zer0-1339/hero/105854519 My season 16 necromancer, GHUHAKHAHCAG, is a thorns… Read more…
Movie Science: Avengers: Endgame
Spoiler warning: When the heroes in Avengers: Endgame time travel, they shrink and move really fast. This is possible with Pim Particles, which I don’t know anything about, but the time travel part is right on the nose. The shrinkage… Read more…
The Inescapability of Escape
The road is living, cobbled from death, and animated. It has always been older than the oldest memory I have. It feeds on travelers, upon their confinement within the mazes of its form, and grows. Transit, and all of its… Read more…
Efficiency In Web Browsing
People who look at porn and violent media and drugs and other illegal content online are often prone to deleting their browsing histories and knocking out the web browser’s stored cache of valuable data on a regular basis. This may… Read more…
My Least Favorite Sense
Which is your favorite flavor of murder? Tastebuds, you know, are designed to tell the body how a thing was hurt. By licking a wounded object, we can deduce what manner of hurt befell it.
Snakes and Ladders
RCA < S-Video < Component < VGA < Display Port < HDMI < DVI+ < Frikkin’ Eyeballs. * RCA:S-Video::HDMI:Display Port. * That is to say, Display Port differs from HDMI in that there is no audio signal included in the… Read more…
A Comment On Comments
We are currently using Disqus to provide comments on our site. In the spirit of openness, here’s what Disqus has to say about the comment systems data collection systems: ” We strive to make the Disqus experience as personalized and… Read more…