I’m not alone in this tendency, of course. In the geek world, this is known as “yak shaving“. The phrase comes obliquely from a Ren and Stimpy episode, and refers to common phenomenon where ...

The Russian Yakovlev Yak-9 was one of the smallest and lightest combat fighters fielded by any combatant during World War II. Its high power-to-weight ratio gave it excellent performance ...

Performing a somewhat trivial or meaningless task. Programmers may have to "shave a yak" along with coding, which is what they love to do. For example, creating test data for a new application may ...

On his way back to the temporary resettlement site in the village, Tenzin noticed a yak that had been unearthed from the rubble of a collapsed building and seemed to have a chance of survival.

A young teacher in modern Bhutan, Ugyen, shirks his duties while planning to go to Australia to become a singer. As a reprimand, his superiors send him to the most remote school in the world, a ...