Schlagwort: Seltsames

Seltspräch.

On an arbitrary numerical scale of conversational oddness, ranging from one to ten, with ten being the oddest conversation I’ve ever had, and seven being the oddest conversation I have in a typical day, this rates no better than five.

Neal Stephenson: The System of the World

Treaming.

Now is this real, or my imagination?

I guess I must be dreaming.

Dead by April: Dreaming

Trashfield.

Since the 1980s, the Iroise coast in Brittany has received a supply of bright orange landline novelty phones shaped like the famous cartoon cat.

BBC: Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved after 35 years

Chormänngel.

Es ist immer wieder komisch wenn Männer den Ton angeben aber dann vor allem Frauen mitsingen.

Zombie Code.

Most surprisingly, dead code may affect the result of the program -- even though it is not even executed.

Oleg Kiselyov: Type inference and the undead code