Category Archives: Life

Socks

Has anyone considered how weird socks are? I mean, really. It’s like putting a hat on your foot. You’re sort of just wrapping two important appendages in fabric. It even looks weird, when you think about it. That has been today’s weird moment. May you never look at a sock the same way again.

April 12, 2010 – 2:25 pm | By Cap'n Refsmmat | Posted in Life | Tagged | Comments (0)

Communication Media

[Note: There's basically no point to this post. But hey, it's the Internet. That's allowed here.] Media I can use to communicate with people I know in person: Phone call. The highest-bandwidth and lowest-latency medium, unless you get voicemail. But somehow the least preferred. Text message. Annoyingly brief and usually vapid; useful for arranging meetings …

June 29, 2009 – 12:12 am | By Cap'n Refsmmat | Posted in Life | Comments (2)

Magic

For the past year and a half, I’ve been a card magician. I started learning some basic sleight of hand techniques with cards and I’m now producing cards out of people’s pockets and making a chosen card appear in a sealed envelope halfway across the room. Magic isn’t just a way to make other people …

October 12, 2008 – 12:30 am | By Cap'n Refsmmat | Posted in Life | Tagged | Comments (0)

Science Parody Song Ideas?

As you can see, I’ve been helping make science- and nerd-related parody songs recently, and I’m looking to make some more. It’s a fun way to spend some time. Do you have any songs you think could be written? Pick a song (preferably something that can be played on guitar or piano) and a promising …

September 16, 2008 – 5:17 pm | By Cap'n Refsmmat | Posted in Life, Music Videos | Tagged , | Comments (3)

The Relationship Uncertainty Principle

A long long time ago, a friend and I wrote a document on the science of relationships. It was mostly silly, but it did have one section that wasn’t just made up. That section was on the Relationship Uncertainty Principle. The RUP works in a fashion similar to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics. The …

May 20, 2008 – 9:56 pm | By Cap'n Refsmmat | Posted in Life | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Any Psychologists in the House?

Can anyone explain to me why people love talking about things like they’re experts when they really don’t know anything about the subject? Like this guy: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video I’m often asked questions about things that are out of my area of expertise. Rather than make …

May 16, 2008 – 10:03 pm | By Cap'n Refsmmat | Posted in Life, Science | Comments (3)

Your Attention Please

If you expect me to solve your computer problem, you will have to tell me more than “I tried to go to the website and it didn’t work.” I’d rather like to know what exactly happened when you tried to go to the website and what error message, if any, you got. Error messages, after …

April 7, 2008 – 11:05 pm | By Cap'n Refsmmat | Posted in Life | Tagged , | Comments (2)