#2928 Software Testing DayThe company tried to document how often employees were celebrating Software Testing Day, but their recordkeeping system kept mysteriously crashing.
#2929 Good and Bad IdeasWhile it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.
#2930 Google Solar CycleFrom Google Trends, it looks like the lag between people Googling cocktail recipes and 'hangover cure' is 14 hours.
#2931 ChasingCertain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley.
#2932 Driving PSAThis PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.
#2933 Elementary Physics Paths==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'
#2934 Bloom FilterSometimes, you can tell Bloom filters are the wrong tool for the job, but when they're the right one you can never be sure.
#2935 Ocean LoopI can't believe they wouldn't even let me hold a vote among the passengers about whether to try the loop.
#2936 Exponential GrowthKarpov's construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end.
#2937 Room CodeSorry to make you memorize this random string of digits. If it helps, it can also double as a mnemonic for remembering your young relatives' birthdays, if they happened to have been born on February 5th, 2018.
#2938 Local GroupCosmologists estimate the spaghetti strand to be about 200 septillion calories, though it could be higher depending on the nutritional value of dark matter.
#2939 Complexity AnalysisPERPETUALLY OPTIMISTIC CASE: Early in the execution, our research group makes a breakthrough on proving P=NP.
#2940 Modes of TransportationMy bold criticism might anger the hot air balloon people, which would be a real concern if any of them lived along a very narrow line directly upwind of me.
#2941 Cell OrganellesIt's believed that Golgi was originally an independent organism who was eventually absorbed into our cells, where he began work on his Apparatus.
#2942 Fluid SpeechThank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.
#2943 Unsolved Chemistry ProblemsI'm an H⁺ denier, in that I refuse to consider loose protons to be real hydrogen, so I personally believe it stands for 'pretend'.
#2944 Magnet FishingThe ten-way tie was judged a ten-way tie, so no one won the grand prize, a rare fishing monopole.
#2945 Broken ModelIn addition to eating foxes, rabbits can eat grass. The grass also eats foxes. Our equations chart the contours of Fox Hell.
#2946 1.2 Kilofives'Oh yeah? Give me 50 milliscore reasons why I should stop.'
#2947 Pascal's Wager TriangleIn contrast to Pascal's Wager Triangle, Pascal's Triangle Wager argues that maybe God wants you to draw a triangle of numbers where each one is the sum of the two numbers above it, so you probably should, just in case.
#2948 Electric vs GasAn idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that's the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.
#2949 Network ConfigurationIf you repeatedly rerun the development of technological civilization, it turns out that for some reason the only constant is that there is always a networking utility called 'netcat', though it does a different thing in each one.
#2950 SituationWe're right under the flight path for the scheduled orbital launch, but don't worry--it's too cold out for the rockets to operate safely, so I'm sure they'll postpone.
#2951 Bad Map Projection: Exterior KansasAlthough Kansas is widely thought to contain the geographic center of the contiguous 48 states, topologists now believe that it's actually their outer edge.
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