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The standard calculator of Mac OSX might be right for my granny, but not for a real techie. Recently I was asked how to convert 50 billion byte to MB. Usually I would enter 10^9/1024^2. Try to punch this into the default calculator. No way.

PEMDAS from Donkey Entertainment is more useful.

I believe that we have come this far by the skin of our teeth. That we always make it just by the skin of our teeth, but that we will always make it. Survive. Endure. I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes will endure. Will endure longer than his home planet — will spread out to the stars and beyond, carrying with him his honesty and his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage and his noble essential decency.

“This I believe with all my heart.”

Robert A. Heinlein wrote this item in 1952. His wife, Virginia Heinlein, chose to read it when she accepted NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal on October 6, 1988, on the Grand Master’s behalf (it was a posthumous award).

Mrs. Heinlein received a standing ovation.

Read the full poem.

I picked up this song from the last chaosradio podcast and really felt the need to spread it. The instrumental version was released back in 1995 and was featured on the Mission Impossible soundtrack. Recently it was remixed by a German DJ called Tocadisco. Brilliant tunes, brilliant lyrics. Love it.

No government is a way of life.
No government means to trust your friends.
I know who I am and you know who you are. [...]

There’d be no government,
there’d be no government.
People would do what they wanted,
and there’d be no government. [...]

No government is an easy time.
No government is an exciting life.
We’d work for ourselves,
and we’d love for ourselves,
and for no government.

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