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Carl Banks' Blog Entries: Miscellaneous
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Saturday, October 17, 2009, 6:55 PM PDT
Here is a list of Facebook apps I've blocked. With one minor exception, my policy is not to allow any third-party Facebook apps. | ||
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Sunday, January 18, 2009, 9:17 PM PST
Dear the five or so job recruiters per day who try to contact me: First of all, I would like to thank you for your interest. It is comforting to know that I always have options. However, several aspects of you methodology have been a source of irritation to me, so I thought I'd write this letter to make you aware of this. | ||
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 7:14 AM PST
Don't ask me why, but I was recently on YouTube looking at all kinds of intros for 70s and 80s TV shows. It's very odd what I do and don't remember (I was born in 1976). Anyway, I was really struck by the intro to Dynasty. For some reason I don't remember the music at all, which is odd because I clearly remember seeing the intro fairly often (and its weird vertical line fading). But now that I'm older, I noticed some stuff in the intro that's really interesting. Here is the intro on YouTube. (You'll see what I mean if you watch it.) | ||
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Friday, October 31, 2008, 4:57 AM PDT
The Apostrophe Rule is a rule I made up while advising someone on an Internet forum what to do about his wife who would always talk his ear off. I've been told many times how clever the rule is, so I thought I'd share it with the whole world. | ||
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 9:49 PM PDT
There is a lot of controversy over whether the money we spend on manned space flight is worth it, with many opponents of it claiming that that money would be better spent on social programs or other thing. Those in favor of funding space most often flight tout the scientific benefits of the space program as its justification. But there's a much stronger argument: The most immediate and tangible benefit of the space program is not science, but engineering. | ||
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Sunday, March 16, 2008, 10:57 PM PDT
If one were to extrude the space-time continuum along a fifth dimension, and define existence as the limit at infinity along this dimension, then any time travel would be unstable and would never persist until infinity. | ||
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007, 10:42 PM PST
Whenever you go to a zoo that has pandas, people will line up for miles just to get a glimpse of these idiotic evolutionary flukes. What is the big deal? All they do is sit around eating leaves all day. They're probably the most boring mammal on earth aside from koalas. | ||
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 8:32 PM PDT
I was recently very disappointed to see that your state does not make your official road map available at the rest stops, unlike every other state I've ever driven through. I make it a point to collect road maps from every state I drive through, and was unable to procure a road map from Kansas. | ||
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007, 5:19 PM PDT
Engineers in the classical sense don't get excited. Software engineers do. Therefore, software engineers aren't engineers in the classical sense. | ||
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006, 6:39 PM PDT
Yeah, I said it. But before you get all bent out of shape, let me put this statement into context. Keep in mind that Scarlett Johanssen is a celebrity, and celebrities have a much higher standard of beauty than your girlfriend. | ||
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Saturday, February 11, 2006, 10:04 AM PST
We'll have to examine the situation at the time of Jesus' birth to explain why it's too bad Mr. T wasn't around then. Specifically, we'll look at the circumstances leading to the gifts of the Magi, and why it's too bad it wasn't Mr. T who was there to pay the new born king homage instead. | ||
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Sunday, January 22, 2006, 1:21 PM PST
Note to stupid beverage makers: when I buy a bottle of unsweetened tea with no lemon, I don't want any citric acid put in there for tartness. Ok? If I wanted tartness in my sweetened tea, I'd just get it with lemon. |
