Working hardware

October 10, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XLIII: Hardware works best when it matters the least.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Literature infographics:
https://www.coursehero.com/infographics/
 

Clown's open door

October 10, 2016
The other day I held the door open for a clown. I thought it was a nice jester.

Website 4 the day:
Collaborative story telling:
http://ficly.com/
 

Impossible systems

October 7, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XLII: Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Planet unknown:
https://vimeo.com/183577091
 

More is less

October 6, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XLI: The more one produces, the less one gets.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Make 2D hand-drawn animations:
https://pencil2d.github.io/
 

Start out slowly

October 6, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XL: Most projects start out slowly, and then sort of taper off.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Binaural beats generator:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnaural/
 

Never promise

October 5, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Mathematical algorithm system:
http://axiom-developer.org/
 

Birds v. worms

October 4, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XXXVIII: The early bird gets the worm. The early worm...gets eaten.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Why cats do what they do:
http://www.vetstreet.com/our-pet-experts/is-my-cat-trying-to-annoy-me-5-strange-cat-behaviors-explained
 

Worse than you expect

October 3, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XXXVII: Ninety percent of the time things will turn out worse than you expect. The other 10 percent of the time you had no right to expect so much.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
Deep mind for better speech:
https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio/
 

Eyeball to eyeball

October 3, 2016
One eyeball says to the other: "Between you and me, something smells."

Website 4 the day:
Lewd sounding town names:
http://laughingsquid.com/a-map-highlighting-the-lewdest-sounding-town-name-in-each-state-in-the-united-states/
 

Proposal thickness

September 30, 2016
Augstine's Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

Website 4 the day:
DIY medicine:
https://fourthievesvinegar.org/
 

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