I had my BIOS set to boot from floppy, HD and CD, in that order, when I wanted CD before HD. No wonder stuff wouldn’t install.
World Wide Words looks into the origins of those phrases that puzzle you.
Ponder This: monthly brain-teaser from IBM.
Matthias Wandel’s insane constructions (link from AlterSlash). From the same site: some surprisingly effective mathematical drawings.
Tonja Steele, comic strip about a dyke an amazon and her adopted daughter. Jackie’s Fridge is about – er – Jackie, her talking fridge, her guinea-pig with delusions of Antichrist-hood, and their neighbors, when it’s not being filled in (as now) with unrelated stories. Joey Hetzel (creator of Tonja) and BJ Hiorns (creator of Jackie) are a couple. Together they made JoBeth until they ran out of blonde jokes.
Wow . . this Indian matchmaking site starts with a bewildering menu of religions: Buddhist, Christian (10 flavors), Hindu (132 flavors), Jain, Jewish, Muslim (7 flavors), Sikh (7 flavors), No Religion, Other. 132 kinds of Hindu? And no subflavors of Buddhist? TWIAVBP.
A couple of items found somewhere-or-other, years ago.
PREDICTION CORNER. ‘Before man reaches the moon, your mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, from England to India, by guided missile. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail.’ (Arthur Summerfield, US Postmaster General, 23 June 1959) [TH] (I guess this one came from Ansible.)
The Tom Sawyer Uncertainty Principle: It’s either not every day or not everywhere that you get to whitewash a fence, but you can never know which.