My Guess? An off-centre wheel has a definite stable point in its rotation. Perhaps that provides the rider with a little assistance to remain relatively stationary while juggling.

And by a curious coincidence, not only does the pebble meet each of the askslashdotter's criteria, funding for this particular project on kickstarter closes less than 24 hours after the article was posted here. Is that the foul stench of astroturf assaulting my olfactory system?

Cool idea, but really, does it need a slashvertisement?

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

I think you're being overly generous. Anyone can make a simple error, but it takes a special kind of person to screw up in such spectacular fashion as in that post. This writer wrote but fourteen words, and in so doing, made one blindingly obvious grammatical error (the aforementioned "an writer"), one capitalisation error (self-publishing is NOT a proper noun), one style error (one may place a space on both sides or on neither side of the "/"), and one logical construction error (the statement and question were linked by punctuation, but bore no contextual relationship to each other).

Protip: when claiming - in writing - to be a writer, it's usually a good idea to proofread one's own work prior to publication.


Disclaimer: Sigg3.net may not be a native speaker of English. If that be the case, it's not such a spectacular screw up, as I am quite certain that his command of English is far better than my command of his native language.

Most, if not all x86-based computers these days, boot first into 25 rows by 80 columns text mode before switching to another display mode. Now, that number was not arbitrarily chosen - 25x80 characters has been a standard for text consoles for decades. But even that was not arbitrarily chosen - guess how many characters the punch card could represent. (Really? You need to be told it's 80?) That's right folks, even if indirectly, most of us use a hangover from punch card technology every day and often we don't even realise it. Of course, the backward compatibility links go right back through the Hollerith Census Tabulator cards to Jacquard Loom pattern cards, if I remember the story correctly, but I'm too lazy to look it up.

Perhaps, but gently, m'kay?

If we took this off-line to workshop it, we would stand a better chance of engineering a best-practice solution to fit the paradigm of an adaptive revenue stream from product lines architected to incentivize the imagineering constructicated by cloud-conscious upwardly-mobile C-level Gen-Y clients demographically oriented by the dynamics of an elastic market.

Wrong tool for the job.

A couple of decent blows with a hammer or the back of an axe will do the same job. There's no need to break out the firearms.

Uh huh, and they get paid to do just that. If I were asked to do this, I'd ask if I have permission to use company resources to do so - including time, bandwidth and online reputation. If the answer's no, I'd ask for compensation for using my personal resources to do this work for them. I'd also consider asking to have my job description altered.

That's not necessary if his glowing endorsement of "Acme Widgets' stunning new app ParaWidget-X" comes from employee@acme.com

My advice to the OP? Face facts. Your employers are asking you to do unpaid work for them. Change the deal to a paid one by conducting this advertising campaign on their time. Protect your personal online reputation by creating a twitter/facebook/whatever account under your employee email address. Then spam away, my friend.

Yes. Yes, that's exactly what it means. You are communicating among other things, your level of fear and your size, upon which information the aforementioned serpent can determine your candidacy as prey and your threat to base its subsequent actions.

Think about this - would you doubt that the rattling snake communicates something to you, just because you can detect the air pressure changes? Communication need not be verbal nor even does it need to be intentional. Even simple colour combinations are sufficient to communicate danger or a foul taste.

Wait, what? A successful strike from the snake would result in a bit more than mere blood loss. These are venomous snakes, remember. A bite which would make a big animal like a human sick for a few days will kill a little squirrel in pretty short order.

Those little blue pills work wonders, don't they?

...or so I've heard.
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Yeah, I've definitely heard that!

Yes, in the domain of mathematics, the phrase "the number is near infinite" is nonsensical, but this is a report about a scientific event, it is not a scientific paper in and of itself. Clearly, the writer's intent was to convey an of the magnitude of the number.
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You did get that, didn't you?