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Investigations into rats wearing pants, the personalities of rocks and the truthfulness of 1,000 liars won Ig Nobel prizes on Thursday night at Harvard, where Nobel-winning scientists gathered to honor the strangest research of the year. "Science is the poetry of reality." (and these are the limericks)
Explaining that you want to put trousers on rats to a funding agency must have made for an interesting meeting.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: rats wearing pants, the personalities of rocks and the truthfulness of 1,000 liars
Well okay then... 
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Explaining that you want to put trousers on rats to a funding agency must have made for an interesting meeting
Yes, but yet still getting the funds...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Known as the “Hunger Games” of computer programming, applicants must pass two online logic exams to be invited to a month-long orientation than runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week during which prospective students are given a series of increasingly difficult problems they must solve. "And may the odds be ever in your favor"
OK, it's better than a 21-day book at least.
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I think these days IT people failed to bring true creativity and waste their time in language creation. It may be a sign of a saturation time of an IT invention.
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Read the article; this is all about getting grant money from the government.
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Useless News and Worthless Reporting: Only those who show steady progress and certain stick-to-itiveness qualities are selected to enroll, typically about one-third of those invited to the orientation. So far, out of the 350 students who participated in an orientation, 250 have been accepted.
'one third', '250 out of 350'.
I guess the sunshine who wrote this went to mathcamp instead of a traditional math class. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Either that, or the other possibility you appear not to have considered - that the intake this time was above average.
It does say that typically a third of students receive an invite.
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That's not an education, that's a filter.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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One of the most frequent requests we receive is to increase the number of colors that the Windows Console can support. We love nothing more than to deliver features you ask for! My life is complete.
I'm so glad that the feedback they listen to is, "we want more colours in the command shell"
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24 bits is so 20th century. I want 32 bits! No wait, 64! Awww, what the heck, let's not plan for obsolescence: go for 256 bits!
Marc
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It would be a fun idea to make a console-based Tetris game, methinks, showing it off.
Jeremy Falcon
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Pretty sure you just committed to an article. Just saying...
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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 Oh crap.
Jeremy Falcon
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Why did you bother waiting for 24-bit colour to code Tetris?
8 colours would suffice.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Actually I didn't. Back in the 90s I coded a Tetris knock-off when I was a young lad. It was DOS based, which is why the console thing reminded me of it. Back in the good old days when invalid memory access would crash the entire system. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Cool, my first programming projects were a version of Tetris and Frogger, both on the ZX Spectrum way back in the day (1983ish).
I remember as a 15 year old getting £150 for a version of Frogger accepted for publication in a magazine (Your Computer if I remember correctly), which as a 15 year old back then was a lot of money, to me anyway. Gave me a taste for making money from coding, that hasn't failed me yet.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Glad to hear it man. Now if we just had a tetris emoji...
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: It would be a fun idea to make a console-based Tetris game, methinks, showing it off.
6 – Tetris
Yes it’s even found its way to the command line, this great little game has kept me entertained on many a Friday afternoon.
Commands:
J: left
L: Right
K: Rotate
Space: Drop
Run:
tetris-bsd
Install(Ubuntu):
Sudo apt-get install bsdgames
A quick google found that here[^]
Marc
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Oh snap. Thanks for the link.
Jeremy Falcon
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cool. chkdsk /r in red, nice.
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You could use different shades of red to indicate the severity of the error...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm so glad that the feedback they listen to is, "we want more colours in the command shell"
But that's not the feedback they listened to. The feedback they listened to was "we want more colors in the command shell".
Those British colours will have to wait until the next version. 
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Even after seeing the reference article I'm sure you made it up... It can not be real!!!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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