Joe Auricchio

Ben and I both know how much cash you get from the “Bank Error In Your Favor” card in Monopoly. We don’t know how we can possibly actually know that.

Paul: I defer to Joe on that [Japanese language], because he's way awesomer at the language than I am.
Joe: No...
Paul: Yeah, he's even got the whole cultural thing down where he can't accept a compliment.
Joe: No... I got that from you!!
Paul: No...

As my program walks cheerfully off the end of an array and blows up yet again

Joe, stop taking the lemming approach to memory access

Starting our inaugural game of Wii Golf
<Jeff> Expert!!
<Ryan> I would consider no other difficulty.

Mom and Dad discuss how Tia Rosa-branded bread is actually made by Sara Lee.
<Dad> Who's Thomas'?
<Mom> Thomas' is Thomas'.
<Dad> Ahh, nothin' is nothin' anymore!

3:05am
<krel> why the heck is everyone else awake?
<DJCapelis> because while I'm awake it's still the weekend but the moment I go to sleep it's monday again.

I’ve used & lt; and & gt; to create angle-brackets around speaker names in many of my quote posts. I upgraded to 2.05 the other day, and since then it seems Wordpress has been over-interpreting entities. I now have to use & amp;lt; and & amp;gt; to get the brackets to show up in browsers. The WP edit box shows the same as it used to; the change is in the processing between database and client. Anybody else seen this?

<eric> you know how sometimes there are pop-up advertisements that know where you are logged on from in the world?
» like "Meet hot girls in San Diego"
» which now for me say "Meet hot girls in Tokyo"
» So if you log in from Vatican City, does it say "Meet barely legal girls in Vatican City TONIGHT!" ?

Potassium, sodium, chlorine, and calcium ions in nerve cells have osmotic and electrostatic forces acting on them. Normally they can’t cross the cell membrane, but when ion channels open they rush into/out of the cell trying to reach osmotic equilibrium, and carrying their charge with them. This changes the cell’s voltage with respect to the environment; this is how the neuron fires.

The tendency of these ions to flow is actually a chemical effect, not an electrical one: osmosis is the primary driver. But the tendency to flow in this way can be quantified and calculated exactly like a voltage difference across very high resistance. Even though the ions want to flow to equalize this so-called voltage differential, ordinarily they can’t.

It’s potential potential, in the fullest physics sense of both words.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I love cognitive science.

upd 8 nov: revised first para, sorry for bumping everyone’s rss feeds

<kelsey> You know how you say "heart" in sign language?
<ben> Very quietly?