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Punography »

Words that play:

The opposite of a prostitution is a constitution.
A university made by combining many universities is a polyversity (like the one they’re envisioning of HUT/HU/UIAH).
An encyclopedia that really doesn’t get to the point is an epicyclopedia.

Dagens dummis 2008-01-08 »

Vilken är Finlands hastigaste fisk?
Snabborren.
(jag hade en till lika bra men den har jag tackålov glömt)

Why i didn’t get an iPod for graduation »

My colleague Niklas spotted these iPod engravings. Well, turns out that they mis-spelled my name (Laurén, not Lauren), so that’s why i didn’t get one.

Pipe Wars »

Wow. This is the weirdest mash-up i’ve seen in quite a while.

The Star Wars March on bagpipe. [via]

Julhilsen, Oobu-style »

Å imårån, om högre makter nu så vill (å de finns int någo ni kan göö åt den saken) så e de jul. Å då ska ni vaa lugnt. Å di som rojvar å härjar ska ha smäll på fingrarna, två gånger. God kul.

The Big Bang theory, sorta »

On IRC, great thougths are thunk.
11:05 [ Heavy-Devy] you know lots about the big bang thing?
11:05 [ llauren] Well.. it bung. Hard.
11:06 [ Heavy-Devy] and then?
11:06 [ llauren] Stuff started.
11:06 [ llauren] The universe was created, kinda
11:06 [ Heavy-Devy] kinda
11:06 [ llauren] Yeah.
11:06 [ llauren] [...]

Vill-ha osv »

Morkkis. Postningen om jul-vill-haet blev klantig, inte minst pga att jag skrev den auf English. Och nu detta. Antagligen borde jag installera en wp-plugin som skippar postningar man bara grämer sej om i efterhand.
Det oaktat kommer jag antagligen ändå skaffa mej en Arduino sjäv nå dag… men mer om det… när och om det verkligen [...]

Gimme-season is nigh »

’tis the season to want stuff… and while i’d love to have this nifty Toshiba Portégé which i have on test run, and (sadly) belongs to our CEO, i’ll present something a bit more modest. If you really want to get me something geeky for Christmas but don’t know what, get me an Arduino, [...]

Why we blog »

PhD 10y »

Congratulations to the Piled Higher and Deeper comic strip — one of the very efficiently productivity-impairing factors i had when trying to write my thesis — for turning ten years this saturday! Yay!
(my advisor has longer hair than the one depicted in the strip above — otherwise the situation… heck, most of PhD is [...]