Events

From reader DW, a Durex commercial not likely to run in Alabama:

Field trip to Noethling Park (a.k.a. Wiggly Field) today, with a ball and a Chuck-It: Everyone had a blast until Sadie, a beagle, got tired of waiting for Parker to give her his ball. After some snarling and snapping, both humans decided the dogs were done with the park for the day. Here's Parker saying "nyah nyah" to both Sadie and me:

IBM has created a supercomputer with more cerebral capacity (as measured by neurons and synapses) than a housecat: The simulator, which runs on the Dawn Blue Gene /P supercomputer with 147,456 CPUs and 144TB of main memory, simulates the activity of 1.617 billion neurons connected in a network of 8.87 trillion synapses. The model doesn't yet run at real time, but it does simulate a number of aspects of real-world neuronal interactions, and the neurons are organized with the same kinds of groupings and...

After two hours of classes this morning, both of which reminded me I need to study more, what better way to recover than with another Parker puppy video? The bed, by the way, lasted about four days. He shredded the thing like a Cuisinart.

My cousin sent me this example of...something...but I couldn't stop laughing:

You think he's cute now? This is Parker at 12 weeks, just a couple days after I adopted him:

I don't know where this came from originally, but...well, look:

From the Economist's Gulliver blog: The Germans said in a letter to the Dubai-based carrier that under European law it was not allowed “to engage in price leadership” on routes from Germany to non-EU locations. Emirates, which condemned the decision as “commercially nonsensical”, responded by raising prices by 20% on some routes. Andrew Parker of Emirates told the Financial Times, "We are adamant this is selective and clearly an attempt by Lufthansa [Germany's national carrier] to pursue Emirates versus...

Of course we knew Bill O'Reilly didn't care about the Constitution, but it's refreshing to hear him admit it:

Silly me for forgetting that U.S. citizens need visas to visit India. (I'm usually more up on those things.) So yesterday I got mine, for the CCMBA Delhi residency. Color me impressed. Travisa, the company that the Indian government employs to handle their visa processing, had me in and out in 15 minutes to drop off my application, then sent me a text the same afternoon letting me know my passport had come back, then had me in and out in 90 seconds in the afternoon. Total time spent getting the visa...