On Sunday I left right on time to drive to the Metro station and then take the train into the city to watch a certain professional football team play. (Not naming teams.) After locking up my car and walking down to the Metro entrance, a stranger stopped me and asked me if I had jumper [...]
Today I heard that news that typing two spaces after a period is wrong. Like many others, I was always taught in school to use two spaces after a period, but it turns out those teachers were incorrect – or were they? Technically they were correct to type two spaces after a period when using [...]
“The Notificator” was introduced in London in the early 1930s. It allows people to post short publicly-accessible messages to keep friends updated on your current status… exactly what Twitter does today. Courtesy modernmechanix.com
I was just copying some text from an article on the Charlotte Observer to email it to somebody. When I pasted the text into my email it mysteriously included the words “Read More:” followed by a link to the article, even though no such words and link existed in what I copied. For example, I [...]
Today March 14th, or “three-fourteen”. This day is also known as Pi Day. Pi Day is a celebration of the mathematical symbol of Π, which represents 3.14 followed infinitely more decimals. Anyway, I wanted to share with you this amazing Pi-related fact. If you take the numbers 3.14 and look at it in the mirror, [...]