Yeah, I know I was late with this morning’s update. Sorry about that, but after going out for dinner and beers last evening, I stayed up late reading and then I overslept this morning.
- Interesting, but not surprising: Nuisance crimes drop during strike and have picked up again now that the buses are running. Around the U though, bike thefts were up during the strike. [daily]
- Cable and satellite TV Providers cool to Pawlenty’s Twins TV mediation proposal which would try to get the Twins on the air by the all-star break. Pawlenty also wants to see a stadium built on his watch, which I suspect is why he offered the mediation services. [press-patch]
- There are Severe weather drills planned today around here, so don’t freak out if you hear sirens at 1:45 or 6:55 pm. This is only a test. Had this been a real tornado, all the TV stations would have been telling you about it for the past couple hours.
- The Mosquito treatments meant to take bite out of season are starting already, since mosquitos normally start coming out in a week or two. That’s one of the reasons I’ve been enjoying working outside so far. No bugs yet. [strib]
- On a lighter note, Rob asks How Much is Inside a Keg? and other questions over on cockeyed.com. Fun reading if you’ve got nothing better to do with your day. As for the keg? 141 red plastic cups, or 25,810 calories.
- As if perl wasn’t write-only enough, there’s now Lingua::Romana::Perligata, perl for the XXIimum Century. Sick. Twisted. Fun! Watch:
get turned into:maximum inquementum tum biguttam egresso scribe.
meo maximo vestibulo perlegamentum da.
da duo tum maximum conscribementa meis listis.
dum listis decapitamentum damentum nexto
fac sic
nextum tum novumversum scribe egresso.
lista sic hoc recidementum nextum cis vannementa da listis.
cis.
Recognize it? It’s the Sieve of Erasthones. As I said, Sick. Twisted. Fun! [jr]print STDOUT 'maximum:';
my $maxim = <STDIN>;
my (@list) = (2..$maxim);
while ($next = shift @list)
{
print STDOUT $next, "\n";
@list = grep {$_ % $next} @list;
}