Hi!

Today was the "cool things here, please!" day. I'll share two of them: computing and mostly non-computing.

We got our manuscript for a paper back, together with a couple of (really good) remarks by the reviewers. The way it works is: they read, comment, request changes, and only once they are satisfied will the journal publish the manuscript. Often you get a list like "Page 12, 3rd paragraph, please rephrase 'spaghetti code'"

Probably because we're submitting to a computing journal, this time the remarks were high tech. As in pretty damn cool. (Yeah, rephrase.) See:

Now, apart from these comments being hilarious: how does that work? OK, overlay and stuff - but how do you write this? Probably with a tablet. And here comes the second most important property of reviewers: they remain anonymous, I suppose that's so you can't bribe them and so you can't destroy their computer / physics experiment / Ferrari out of revenge. But that also means: we might never know! Did you ever use a system like that? How does it work?

So here is the second part, non computing. It's an engineering miracle. Did you hear about the Dice-O-Matic hopper and elevator? No? Thought so. But you should - if you are into random number generators, engineering, or nerds. I believe all of that would qualify. Read it here. Now that's someone taking his business seriously!

Have a good night!