Friday, December 07, 2012

  • Mercury is not tidally locked with the Sun.
  • HashMap does return values in a deterministic order across different JREs.
  • The debussy song is correctly titled 'Claire de Lune', which means moonlight.

Monday, May 14, 2012

rather embarassing all around, really

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

corrections


  • The commanders of the Babylon Five were Jeffrey Sinclair and John Sheridan. The series creator was Joseph Michael Straczinsky.
  • The article I was thinking of was about cyclists, not runners.
  • I also confused Clipper City with Rogue. I bet the Clipper City guy would be upset with me about that.
  • The book was Cat's Cradle.

Sunday, September 04, 2011

  • Turkish delight is commonly served coated in chocolate.
  • Somehow, 97% of the worlds vanilla beans (not vanillan) comes from Madagascar.
  • Deconvolute is totally the word for that. 
  • Similarly, I was thinking of hermetic, not hermeneutic (a principle of interpretation, and not even an adjective).
  • My keyboard only has 56 keys.

Monday, October 25, 2010

corrections

  • The first section of the Metro to open was the Red line between North and Rhode Island Ave, not the Yellow Line.
  • Although I know it as something that people in AA say, the "definition" of insanity quip was most likely first said by Rita Mae Brown.
  • While there are still some German speakers in Romania - I'm guessing mostly in Transylvania - it appears Romanian is the most commonly spoken language in Transylvania by far, with German coming behind Magyar and possibly Vlax Romani in terms of number of speakers.

Sunday, October 03, 2010

A cretin is a clod; a Cretan is someone from from Crete. Here is a description of my confusion.

Sunday, August 08, 2010

just one correction (I can't find my notebook with the others)

  • There is, on average, about twelve hours 25 minutes between tides. This makes more sense with what I said about lunar cycles.

open questions

These are things I've said that I haven't definitively disproved, but I assume now are incorrect. Some of these I could verify as false with a bit more research; perhaps I'll move these off this list eventually.
  • The head of the WHO doesn't allow wi-fi in his/her office.
  • Gasoline will not melt through a mountain dew bottle.
  • Cats are more likely to survive a fall from a great height than a medium-high fall.
  • 'It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye' was an expression developed during ancient roman wrestling matches.
Also, maybe polar body twins are real? I was pretty sure they were not at one time.

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

a few corrections

  • Gordon Biersch is named after its founders, Dan Gordon and Dean Biersch.
  • The normal limit of human hearing is 0 dB - I'm guessing by definition. 40 dB is around the level of 'rainfall', and normal conversation is at around 60 dB, according to this random site.
  • The name of the style of architecture I was thinking of is High-Tech.

Monday, November 30, 2009

  • Epimetheus is Prometheus's brother. Twin? Plato said that he was, so I think that counts for something.
  • Multiplication is at most quadratic.
  • Here Come the Warm Jets came out in 1973.
  • It would probably be easier to read these articles about the difference between true fruit and culinary fruit and true nuts and culinary nuts than to bother listing just the things I need to correct.