Author Archives: Chad

While I Was Out

A few things I’ve learned watching daytime television this week while I was sick:
From commercials:
- Earning your bachelor’s degree online can take as little as three years.
- Get your degree in video game design or film production!
- Calling [insert online college name here] will put you on the path to SUCCESS!
- Call now!
- CALL NOW!!!
- [...]

Too much time…

If you’ve seen Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, then you probably have some idea of what kind of results a YouTube search for “paging Mr. Herman” will yield.  What I wasn’t able to anticipate, however, is the treasure trove of “related videos” that would show up as well.  Behold:
 

Work, School, and the Movies

Forgive me. I was going to say that I’ve been busy, but the fact is that I’ve been busier and still found time to post something up in this website.
So what have I been up to, anyway? A lot of things, I guess. Allow me to enumerate.
1. Work. It’s a fact. [...]

Irony: The Ultimate Confounding Variable

In a demonstration that even the greatest technical minds have yet to create an algorithm that accounts for irony, the following links have recently shown up on my Gmail sidebar:
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Very Mature

For Nick: