Quote of the week!

[Disembodied]

Sir,

I am in receipt of your “Final Demand” for payment of my account. I have to inform you that my normal practice concerning the settlement of debts is to place all of my bills in a hat once a month, from which I draw out two or three for payment. I have followed this procedure with regard to your bill. However, if I receive another letter from you, Sir, the tone of which I consider to be rude, your bill will not be put in the hat at all.

(Okay, not really a “quote of the week”, since it dates from the nineteenth century, but still …)

[Cody]

It's still possible for there to be more than one universe: “Our conjecture strengthens the intuition that holographic cosmology implies a significant reduction of the multiverse to a much more limited set of possible universes.”

[Cody]

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has taken out full-page adverts in several UK and US Sunday newspapers to apologise for the firm's recent data privacy scandal. He said Facebook could have done more to stop millions of users having their data exploited by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica in 2014. "This was a breach of trust, and I am sorry," the back-page ads state.

Shyster!

[Disembodied]

So one January day, while having a "troubling" time in the lab, he threw off the lights and shone a UV light on a puffin carcass.

"What happened was quite impressive, really," he said.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundl ... -1.4607386

[RockDoctor]

Ford : "It's unpleasantly like being drunk."
Arthur : "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
Ford : "You ask a glass of water."

[RockDoctor]

(There was an "Appreciation of DNA" on the radio this evening. )

[Cody]

(There was an "Appreciation of DNA" on the radio this evening. )

"You know, if this is Southend, there's something very odd about it."
"What, you mean the way the sea stays steady as a rock and the buildings keep washing up and down? Yes, I thought that was odd."

[spud42]

are we quoting DA now?? lol

[RockDoctor]

are we quoting DA now?? lol

This must be a Thursday. I could never get the hand of Thursdays.
(Incidentally, his middle name was Noel, which is why I refer to him as "DNA". Seems appropriate somehow.

[Cody]

Incidentally, I believe his daughter's third name is Rocket.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

[Disembodied]

There is an angry man with a microphone outside Euston station, ranting that the moon landings were fake. Not once has he said ‘Euston we have a problem’ #disappointed

It seems only right to cite the source: https://twitter.com/itsalexchapman/stat ... 0424767489

[Cody]

<grins> There's a T-shirt to match!

[Cody]

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you really wanted.

[Cody]

On the proposed acquisition of GitHub...

Nadella pleaded with software developers to "judge us by the actions we have taken in the recent past, our actions today and in the future." He reiterated, again, that Microsoft was "all in with open source."

No comment!

[Cody]

Gaming addiction has been listed as a mental health condition for the first time by the World Health Organisation.