Just realized that the small IT firm where I’m CTOin’ up a storm will be more than 60% women in a few months as some new hires come onboard.
Now that’s a rarity if there ever was one.
Day: June 24, 2018, 8:53 PM
Beerlieve
When I bought a beer yesterday at the grocery store, the cashier asked for my ID and I laughed a little and gave it to her. Then she said, “Wait, what? How old are you?” after she looked at the date.
“I’m 42,” I said.
“Huh, wow,” she replied.
Here’s an actual decent selfie taken a couple of months ago, though it doesn’t really matter when it was taken since I’ve looked pretty much the same since I was 22 or so. First one I’ve ever posted on this blog, I believe.
I look kinda like a priest because I’m in my full business goth get-up in that photo. Yep, that’s what I wear to work when it’s cool enough. I do weird abstruse rituals with computers so it makes some sort of sense.
Listing
It’s a day of covers it appears on today’s playlist. Six out of these 10 are covers. Only three are labeled as such; your mission if you choose to accept it is to identify the rest.
WW
Was thinking about the Wonder Woman movie again. It was a collection of scenes and tropes by someone who didn’t really seem to know how to make a movie hang together — just a weak effort for a character that deserved better.
Thank Athena for Gal Gadot, though, because she saved the film. It’s no easy feat blending wisdom and naïveté, strength and vulnerability, ruthlessness with compassion, but she did it amazingly well and sold the character all the way, compensating for the bad writing and semi-incompetent directing nearly singlehandedly (a great Robin Wright also helped).
Have a video that explains well what Wonder Woman is supposed to be about.
The rithm
Sometimes, I watch YouTube in Opera because it handles a few things better, and since I don’t have much ad-blocking configured there I see an ad or two.
And tonight I figured out that YouTube thinks I am a woman. I saw ads for: some kind of foundation makeup, shampoo and then mascara. I am not surprised. I mostly watch women and consume media created by women, and not many men do that. But it shows how algorithms go wrong so often.
Eagle
What a buncha idiots. Well, one is now dead, but still.
Using the equation below with the assumptions noted, it’s possible to estimate how far ammunition of that type should penetrate a material with that density:
3cm bullet with density 8000 kg/m3
Book with density 400 kg/m3
speed on impact 500 m/s
0.03 * (8000 / 400) * .5 = 0.3
That’s 30 centimeters — nearly a foot. Intuitively, that’s about what I would’ve expected. Books aren’t that dense and having shot books and at (abandoned) cars before, I know bullets go right through them like they were nothing, even from a handgun.
Assuming an average thickness of 4 inches, the “victim” would’ve needed to hold at least three volumes of the encyclopedia up to his chest to be reasonably sure of no penetration. I’d recommend four, or better yet not doing the stunt at all. But it’s too late for all that now.
Or he at least could’ve looked up some of this information in said encyclopedia beforehand.