Brent Rockwood

Did you know you could have Facebook in pirate English?  Go to Settings -> Languages and give it a shot.  Arrr!

From the Facebook help…
When we created the poke, we thought it would be cool to have a feature without any specific purpose.

Seriously.

You have to love astronomers.  What with the vernal equinox happening tonight, I was reading about the precession of the equinoxes, which brought me to this…
Over longer time periods, that is, millions of years, it appears that precession is quasiperiodic at around 25,700 years, however, it will not remain so. According to Ward, when the [...]

According to my calculations, if every man, woman, and child in Canada were to go out and replace 1200 incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescents we would meet our Kyoto targets.
I think I’m going to have to come up with a better plan.

February 18-24 is National Engineers Week in the US.  Here are some engineering jokes.
Remember,
An optimist sees the glass half full.The pessimist sees the glass half empty.The engineer sees the glass is twice as large as it needs to be.

Reading my Saturday Globe and Mail, I came across the following quote from our very own Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, Mayann Francis:
Self-help reading list: “[Rick Warren's] The Purpose Driven Life.  The book enhanced my own beliefs that we are here for a purpose.  It deals with religious and spiritual themes, which struck a response [...]

We were discussing university days when Steve came out with this hilarious quote…
I don’t understand economics.  They come up with these incredibly complex equations with derivatives and integrals and all this crazy math and then they just plug shit in.

Nice to know I work for a company with a sense of humor.