“Unconventional”

October 28, 2009 · Posted in Blog, Random Things · Comment 

In my life, I have seen many bad websites. I have seen many terrible websites. I have even seen websites that, were they publicly known, could likely become the cause of WW3.

But rarely I have seen pages that are so fucking terrible that there are not even words for it (except perhaps ‘oh my god, fifteen minutes and the page still isn’t done loading’, which actually sums up many of the shortcomings of this particular website).

Meet belladesoto.us.

I has it!

October 22, 2009 · Posted in Blog · Comment 

Now on to reading.

Forty-two

October 12, 2009 · Posted in Blog · Comment 

I just came up with one of the better quesions that I’ve came up with in a while.

“What is the maximum IQ of any person who posts comments on YouTube-videos?”

“42.”

Which I’d like to use as a reminder - “And Another Thing…”, the sixth (and presumably final) part of the Hitchhiker’s trilogy, written by Eoin Colfer, is out since today! I definately plan on getting it soon, I’m very curious to see what he’s made of it :)

Newfound powers

October 8, 2009 · Posted in Blog, Science · Comment 

Oh, hai!

As I have probably mentioned at some point, some of the bands I like include Behemoth and Belphegor. Both came with new albums recently. Behemoth’s new album ‘Evangelion’ is definately different from ‘The Apostasy’, but it definately kicks at least as much ass (which is quite a lot!). Since ‘Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn’ from Belphegor is far more recent, I havn’t really listened to it enough to form an opinion, but there are definately things that I like here :D

Also, a few weeks ago someone mentioned something math-related. As you may know, x0 (x being any number except 0) is 1. I was told once why that was, though I couldn’t remember it and it bugged me for weeks. But I found it again (and it seems that very few people know this), so if you’re interested:

Basic rules when working with powers include that xa ยท xb can also be written as xa+b. For division, a similar rule exists which says that xa / by xb equals xa-b. Now if we take the second rule, and assume that a and b are equal, we find that xa / xa = xa-a, which is the same as 1 = x0 (which is valid as long as x does not equal zero, in which case it is undefined).

Yay!

Common sense

October 5, 2009 · Posted in Blog · Comment 

Just an hour ago I noticed a commercial on TV, which was done to encourage people who immigrate to the Netherlands to learn Dutch, since after all being able to make yourself understandable is pretty important if you live somewhere (semi)permanently.

But… why are they trying to explain to non-Dutch-speaking people that they should learn Dutch by airing a commercial in which the actual message is spoken only in Dutch?

I wonder where the common sense of these people went to. Probably enjoying a nice long holiday (albeit not terribly well-deserved).