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Don’t fall asleep, drummer!

“Don’t fall asleep!” — a nice reminder for the drummer of the big band I play in, on the 1943 Tommy Dorsy piece “Opus One”.

And because you’ve been such a good readership lately, here’s the original record for you. Enjoy!

Heh

Just stumbled across this:

  • Friend: “I heard about this thing called ‘Linux’.”
  • Me: “Oh, I use Linux.”
  • Friend: “What is it?”
  • Me: “An operating system.”
  • Friend: “Like Firefox?”

Haha :)

Last exam ever!

Just to give you a piece of unwanted knowledge, I just passed my last exam ever! It was about parallel programming, by the way.

Now it’s really only my masters thesis that stands between me and graduation. Yay!

No Cat

Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio, replied:

“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”

(seen on nocat.net)

Slime Line?

Something tells me, this sign I came across in a German store has one “e” too much:

Or maybe I just missed the latest trend and in fact, slime is the new black.

“The Future is a Big-Ass Table”

This parody on Microsoft “Surface” made me laugh today:

Microsoft Surface Parody

Reborn as a Bug?

Oh thank heaven for the beauty of context-sensitive advertising.

As most people on the Mozilla project, I get quite a bit of bugmail from bugzilla. Needless to say, Google mail tries to adapt to this situation by delivering me the ads that they believe are the most appropriate for the mail I am currently looking at:

“Will you be reincarnated as a bug?”

Well, I hope not! What if they resolve me INVALID?