A faint whiff of fresh-cut watermelon (and not some weird watermelon-scented perfume or body lotion or spritz - or so I believe) on the subway platform (for a couple of very fleeting seconds) this morning was odd, but not unwelcome.
this is in my basement. this is scary. you do not want to be in my basement.
again, you never know what people are into
I am not into any of these. I’ll stick with my books. I have them to protect me from the IEEE poetry.
Top 15 documents downloaded for the month of June 2010 from IEEE
Smart Grids - the future or fantasy?
A 10-bit 100-MS/s Reference-Free SAR ADC in 90 nm CMOS
A 5-Gb/s ADC-Based Feed-Forward CDR in 65 nm CMOS
IEEE Recommended Practice for Software Requirements Specifications
Data Security in the World of Cloud Computing
A Dynamic Phase Error Compensation Technique for Fast-Locking Phase-Locked Loops
IEEE Standard for Information technology—Telecommunications and information exchange between systems—Local and metropolitan area networks—Specific requirements Part 11:
An On-Chip CMOS Relaxation Oscillator With Voltage Averaging Feedback
IEEE Standard for Electrical Power System Device Function Numbers, Acronyms, and Contact Designations
Demythifying Cybersecurity
A High-Resolution Low-Power Incremental ADC With Extended Range for Biosensor Arrays
Wireless home automation networks: A survey of architectures and technologies
Cloud Computing Research and Development Trend
MIMO techniques in WiMAX and LTE: a feature overview
A Sixth-Order 200 MHz IF Bandpass Sigma-Delta Modulator With Over 68 dB SNDR in 10 MHz Bandwidth
Good Times
Yeoju Ceramics Expo
firemen bleed hydrant, or, blackberry pictures sure are lame
you never know what people are into
Well, it just goes to show you, you never know what people might be into…
ScienceDirect Top 10 Articles across all subject areas January to March 2010
1. Tumor Self-Seeding by Circulating Cancer Cells
2. The Hallmarks of Cancer
3. Survival as a function of HbA”1”c in people with type 2 diabetes: a retrospective cohort study
4. Statins and risk of incident diabetes: a collaborative meta-analysis of randomised statin trials
5. Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Mouse Embryonic and Adult Fibroblast Cultures by Defined Factors
6. Mutant p53 Drives Invasion by Promoting Integrin Recycling
7. Use of procalcitonin to reduce patients’exposure to antibiotics in intensive care units (PRORATA trial): a multicentre randomised controlled trial
8. Transcriptional Control of Gene Expression by MicroRNAs
9. Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transitions in Development and Disease
10. Implication of unequal rivet load distribution in the failures and damage tolerant design of metal and composite civil aircraft riveted lap joints
bbldldllrlrrrggghh
- (((note: 5.2 stars on IMDB. Please!)))
- [Earl is on the phone with Chic, the locksmith, and Vic is listening on the other line]
- Earl Keese: Hello, Chic? It's Earl.
- Chic: Earl! Earl who?
- Earl Keese: Hey, no jokes, will ya? I need the name of that locksmith you used that time. I broke a key off. I got two lunatics locked in my basement.
- Vic: [makes unintelligible noises]
- Chic: What? What did you say?
- Vic: [disguising voice] I said blow it out your ass, wimp.
- Chic: Is somebody on this line?
- Vic: Just you and me, asshole.
- Earl Keese: [to Enid] That bastard's on the phone!
- Chic: Well you called me, didn't ya?
- Earl Keese: Not you!
- Vic: Me!
- Earl Keese: Get off the line, Vic!
- Chic: Who's Vic?
- Earl Keese: He lives next door.
- Vic: Nobody lives next door, Earl!
- Chic: That's right!
- Earl Keese: Christ.
- Vic: Earl, have you been drinking?
- Chic: What the hell is going on?
- Earl Keese: Never mind, forget it!
- Vic: And don't ever call here again!
- [click]
- (((note: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082801/)))
type slowly
I know you ALL want a USB Typewriter!
via: The USB Typewriter Makes Typing On iPad Even Slower on Gizmodo
(bonus Pavement points for the song title reference as the subject.)
Smack!
Don’t mess with the skeleton bride!
Half.com recommendations for me. Weird.
