Archive for November, 2006

Put up Christmas Tree

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

Today we put up a Christmas tree. The tree was a Christmas present from my brother’s wife’s mother. Thanks, Gail!

Wildlife at Home

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

We live in the suburbs of a large city, so we don’t get much wildlife here. Here are a couple of interesting pictures. I should have posted them on Halloween.
 
Someone set out some green mouse poison. This mouse ate it, died in our back yard, then got eaten by ants before we discovered it. By [...]

Shuffling Cards

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

Every time you shuffle a deck of playing cards, it’s likely that you have come up with an ordering of cards that has never before been seen in human history. Here’s a picture of a specific order of cards, from a deck I shuffled this afternoon:

Since there are about 8.0658X1068 [...]

Wrong Variable Type

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Oops… it looks like some programmer used the wrong variable type on this Skype dialog box: