Ellie K

This will be my last post. I am EllieAsksWhy on Twitter, email is accessible from my blog (via my Twitter profile). I must find work with dire urgency. I am overwhelmed with the sorrow of personal loss. I miss my father and my husband, both gone from this world. Thank you for being my friend here.

Since 1995, the Doomsday Clock has not been further than 10 minutes from Midnight. The worst it ever was was in 1953, when we reached 2 minutes to Midnight. As of 14 Jan 2013, we remain at 5 minutes to Midnight.

Fwd: Life on the Line Between El Paso and Juárez http://www.nytimes.com/2011... via http://friendfeed.com/moody834

Top 20 Replies by (Operations Research?) programmers when their code does not work http://ow.ly/i/1dflp

A Rich Education for Summers After Harvard - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...

Partisan rifts hinder efforts to improve U.S. voting system - http://www.nytimes.com/2012...

Nomenclaturing: Let's Ture to the Max! - http://cacm.acm.org/blogs...

Two-car crash leaves two men suspended in overturned vehicle - http://www.greeleytribune.com/news...

Untitled - http://dataanxiety.tumblr.com/post...

Abstracting away the terror, in the words of others - http://dataanxiety.tumblr.com/post...

cabbage-patch-adults: Talk about embarrassing baby pictures. First time re-blogging something with 2900 prior posts. I can’t resist. Sorry. - http://dataanxiety.tumblr.com/post...

A Walk Through Time - http://www.nist.gov/pml...

hexparty: DESCENT How many T-Rex’s do YOU see in this image? I count at least two. I think there may also be the upper half of a Weeble-like figure, rotated maybe 30 degrees on the y-axis and 90 degrees on the z-axis (or vice-versa?) in the upper right hand corner, as well as half of a poker chip or medallion in the upper left hand corner. NB:... - http://dataanxiety.tumblr.com/post...

via yfroggy - http://dataanxiety.tumblr.com/post...

IBM z12 Mainframe on Pinterest - http://dataanxiety.tumblr.com/post...

Some dude in #rust is calling Firefox bloated software for people with too much RAM… I mean, I guess, but he isn’t going to make himself a lot of friends. - http://dataanxiety.tumblr.com/post...

Where? Only Nine Eyes knows the answer. He has the scariest video of Second Life I ever saw. Well, not 9 Eyes… Google Street View hasn’t made it there, not yet. No, this was on a linked site. Ask, and I will point you in the right direction. - http://dataanxiety.tumblr.com/post...

Wrongness of the predicting h-index paper - http://dataanxiety.tumblr.com/post...

10 Steps to Improving your Photoshop Skills - http://psd.tutsplus.com/article...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012 - http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_p...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 - http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_p...

Moscow Declines USAID - http://dataanxiety.tumblr.com/post...

Moscow Does Not Believe in USAID - http://techpresident.com/news...

Is U.S. Monetary Policy Seasonal? - http://libertystreeteconomics....

This reminds me of @isomorphisms avatar. Or one of them. In his incarnation as not Lao Tzu. - http://dataanxiety.tumblr.com/post...

pegobry: aminatou: Lana made my day with this. YAHOO! QUESTIONS REPONSES Haha, parfait. - http://dataanxiety.tumblr.com/post...

Once Singularity: Painted Coral Snake :: Elaps corallinus, now Micrurus corallinus From Bilder-Atlas zur wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Wirbelthiere Wien: K.K. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, 1867. via Biodiversity Library, on Flickr - http://dataanxiety.tumblr.com/post...

Kristof plays the Drupal song on the traditional Hungarian instrument known as the revolving lute or Hurdy-Gurdy This performance was recorded at the closing ceremony of the European DrupalCon 2008, held in Szeged, Hungary via Nate Haug I heard the original form, with lyrics, of The Drupal Song today, for the first time. Sorry, but I thought it... - http://dataanxiety.tumblr.com/post...

nasdaq: Some of the sessions might be mind benders, but at least no one’s getting lost on the streets of this mountain town…   ~~ Davos 2012 Postcards - http://dataanxiety.tumblr.com/post...

n + 1 magazine: Where we learned about the other kind of shelf life. Patent medications These remedies are of the pharmaceutical variety, not for redress of copyright, nor intellectual property excess! Look closely at the bottle labels. - http://dataanxiety.tumblr.com/post...