Obfuscation is Easy

Joyent plans to take cloud computing to a place where our competitors, built on virtualization foundations such as VMWare ESX, Microsoft HyperV, XEN, KVM, won’t be able to go. That’s why Joyent raised money. We see a clear opportunity, and we intend to race towards it.

Okay - so the Dilbert cartoon came the day after the Joyent thing, but that's just details.

Actually, I think my direct quote was, “If the Stuff Christians Like book sells more copies than Rick Warren’s ‘Purpose Driven Life’ I will buy you all solid gold, life sized remote control cars.” (It just seemed like the right thing to do. I’m pretty generous, I know.)

And his daughter says, “And if we get too much money, we can give it to Vietnam.”

via Irish Calvinist

He ha$ already relea$ed good thing$ into your future.

With $parkle dust? PLEA$E TELL GOD TO BRING $PARKLE DUST

Yesterday when I went into the bathroom stall, written on the wall beside me was,"If you watch jaws backwards its about a huge shark that throws up so many people that they need to open a beach." I laughed hysterically in the stall. I hope nobody heard. MLIA

I know I'm hardly the first to laugh at this, but laugh I did.

I am reminded how much time passes, and things on the internet go round and round and round.

At least Real Life repeats at a slightly slower rate - it makes my head spin less.

An elementary school teacher in New York state had her purse stolen. The thief had to be Lilian, Judy, David, Theo, or Margaret. When questioned, each child made three statements:

Lilian:
(1) I didn’t take the purse.
(2) I have never in my life stolen anything.
(3) Theo did it.

Judy:
(4) I didn’t take the purse.
(5) My daddy is rich enough, and I have a purse of my own.
(6) Margaret knows who did it.

David:
(7) I didn’t take the purse.
(8) I didn’t know Margaret before I enrolled in this school.
(9) Theo did it.

Theo:
(10) I am not guilty.
(11) Margaret did it.
(12) Lillian is lying when she says I stole the purse.

Margaret:
(13) I didn’t take the teacher’s purse.
(14) Judy is guilty.
(15) David can vouch for me because he has known me since I was born.

Later, each child admitted that two of his statements were true and one was false. Assuming this is true, who stole the purse?

(Solution)

Here's a puzzle I could do, so I expect you could to, if you enjoy this kind of thing.

Is it possible to move the knight from a1 to h8, visiting every square of the chessboard once?

Chess without the pieces. The solution doesn't take a detailed knowledge of the game, just an overarching understanding of the logic of the situation, rigorously applied. I didn't get it.