The Drake Equation is used to estimate the number of highly evolved civilisations that might exist in our galaxy. I have used this approach to estimate the number of potential girlfriends in the UK. The results are not encouraging. The probability of finding love in the UK is only about 100 times better than the probability of finding intelligent life in our galaxy. Find out the details here.
The Drake Dating Equation
Why I don't have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation to love in the UK, by Peter Backus, Warwick University Economics Dept.
Skinless Zeppelin
Tags: blimps, mad science, retrocomputing, the future
Current Music: The Hope Blister -- The Outer Skin ♬
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Tags: a/b, bike, blimps, retrocomputing
Current Music: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour -- Attack of the Ghost Riders ♬
Tivo done me wrong.
Every time Tivo inexplicably fails to record a program and I have to resort to torrenting it, I think, "Come on baby, why you gotta treat me that way? You're gonna miss me when I'm gone."
Then the torrents are all shiny and HD and arrive in 15 minutes, and Tivo's sitting there all SD and mopey and I'm all, "Wow, really? Is the magic gone?"
