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Random thought: cyclone

I found this on LOLcat Builder: “Never, under any circumstances, allow a cyclone to read its poetry to you.”

Who was Shakespeare?

Here’s an interesting article about Shakespeare by David Llewellyn.

Who does what around the house?

A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning. The wife said, “You should do it, because you get up first, and then we don’t have to wait as long to get our coffee.” The husband said, ” You are in charge of cooking around here and you should do it, because that is your job, and I can just wait for my coffee.” Wife replies, “No, you should do it, and besides, it is in the Bible that the man should make the coffee.” Husband replies, “I can’t believe that, show me” So she fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says
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Talk Like a Pirate day

It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day! The old site of the science blog, Pharyngula, had a pirate mode button which would translate all the pages into pirate jargon.

The picture is from Knit Like a Pirate! Follow the link to more piratical knitting resources, including this skull & crossbones illusion scarf.

Disclaimer: I’ve never knitted anything larger than a pot-holder.

Toronto, the most multicultural city in the world

Or close enough. Check out the street signs in our neighbourhood: Bilingual in Greek and English! How cool is that? And with a Greek flag on top.

And it’s just one of many with an international flair.

GANTT vs. Gantt

I found the term “GANTT chart” yesterday. Many people think that it’s an acronym: “Get a New Task Track?” But it was devised by, and named for, Henry L. Gantt, and American engineer. In 1917, he got the idea of representing tasks as a series of horizontal bars laid end to end. That makes a project seem more concrete. You can see how tasks affect each other — and how long the whole project will take if all goes well. So it’s “Gantt chart.”