July 12, 2008
Math in the round
One times eight is eight
Four times three is twelve
Seven and Seven and Seven and Seven
Less five is twenty three....
January 5, 2008
Cheshire Crossing #4
Could somebody please tell me who Rutherford's "Brat in a Hat" is?
August 28, 2007
What's Smoking @ Amazon?
They recommend the Deathly Hollows because I purchased Casino Royale?
May 8, 2007
February 21, 2007
Future Headlines
Google buys NSA, eliminates middle man.
January 18, 2007
Tom Hanks as Bond
They blew the basic setup, but after that its priceless: Tom Hanks as 007.
January 17, 2007
Fun with German
Track+ Eclipse Plugin verfügbar
Translation: We are happy to announce that the Eclipse plugin is fubar!
December 30, 2006
Barbara Billingsley
June Cleaver was Jive Lady? Why doesn't anybody ever tell me these things?
December 27, 2006
December 7, 2006
Am I the only one that noticed...
that Nale's rented love den is conspicuously lacking in furniture?
July 24, 2006
The Last Annual Vogler Awards
We are now accepting nominations for the last annual Vogler Award.
The Vogler Award takes it's name from the character Father Vogler, played brillantly by Richard Frank in the 1984 movie Amadeus. Nominees are those actors who have delivered a brilliant performance using very little screen time.
June 16, 2006
Cheshire Crossing
The blonde can #%&@ing fly! Did you see that? She #%&@ing flew!
Cheshire Crossing - The League of Extraordinary Wayward Gentlewomen.
May 24, 2006
Quote of the Day
"Does it have a bug? It's a pseudo-random number generator. The proper question is: which bug does it have?"
May 20, 2006
Yes, I'm going to burn
But it is nice to know that I will have company.
somewhere along the way an obscure underling named Morningstar defied His Supremeness and thus began the most electric rivalry since the Lakers-Celtics thing of the 80s.
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April 19, 2006
April 14, 2006
April 12, 2006
Decoding Order of the Stick
Even I can get this one right.
April 10, 2006
Batgirl Today
Listen, my children. Gather 'round. Come closely—no, that's close enough, I have intimacy issues
April 2, 2006
QOTD
"Congenital defect. My body can't manufacture the proteins necessary for humility."
March 30, 2006
Old Bay
Looking to liven up some tuna, I went into the back of the spice cabinet for some Old Bay Seasoning. I wonder if it's still good?
Same great taste for over 50 years
Wow; I guess it's still good then.
March 6, 2006
Episodes from my life
Casey and Andy. That should be where the permalink ends up (at the moment it's a redirect to the right place, so there you go).
Actually, in my life this was Amazon, not Netflix....
[more ]December 25, 2005
thought for the (Christmas) day
Did anybody think to check with Saint Anastasia's people before scheduling the Nativity? Sorry Stazzie, but the Big Guy says it's too late to fix it now.
November 24, 2005
Acme
The ORIGINAL Illustrated Catalog of ACME Products.
No mention of Acme Murray Dance Studios. "Do you love me, do you love me, no that I can dance. Thank you, very much."
October 15, 2005
Me so holy. Me me me so holy
Oh baby, I wanna read wit-chya,
cause your Bible's got pick-chyas....
I don't think I'd mind going to hell nearly so much if the lines to get in weren't so damned long.
July 15, 2005
A Cartman Moment
Courtesy of Rich Burlew : Order of the Stick.
April 19, 2005
Vatican Rag
Pick a pope, any pope. That's right, now take a good look at it, and memorize your pope - but don't tell me who it is! Now slide your pope into the deck, and shuffle it thoroughly....
April 11, 2005
Philadelphia Chickens
The EZ Catch Chicken Harvester video ( BrightCoop was apparently slashdotted, but BlogTelevision has a copy ) really needs to be paired with the The Bacon Brothers.
Who has got the skills?
December 10, 2004
October 14, 2004
Baseball in the Latin
Custodes stultorum magister.
Bis interimitur qui suis armis perit.
October 6, 2004
October 1, 2004
A name for a face
- Lieutenant Columbo, as played by Peter Falk?
- Governor William J LePetomaine, as played by Mel Brooks?
Image lifted without remorse from Sean Robertson over at DailyKos. I'll replace it with the original when I track that down.
September 30, 2004
Gravity
The Online Newspaper Gazette breaks a story on Intelligent Grappling, originally published by Elf Sternberg (Kzin, does he get around) in 2002.
In those days, one of the theories proposed was that the planets went around because behind them were invisible angels, beating their wings and driving the planets forward. You will see that this theory is now modified! It turns out that in order to keep the planets going around, the invisible angels must fly in a different direction and they have no wings. Otherwise, it is a somewhat similar theory. -- Richard Feynman
August 7, 2004
June 26, 2004
The Two Things
1) Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
2) Our chief weapon is surprise
II) fear and surprise
B) fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency
ii) fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency and fanatical devotion to the Pope
June 5, 2004
QOTD
"Having an infinite number of monkeys doesn't really help." -- The Famous Brett Watson
May 28, 2004
A crisis of sexual identity
Background: One of the running gags at the office is that Amazon thinks I'm a lesbian particle physicist, based on having ordered twenty or so physics references and one indie lesbo flick: Go Fish.
So I've been moaning about the fact that I haven't been able to remember the name of a movie I saw about ten years ago - some German independent thing a friend talked me into (she was gorgeous and devastatingly intelligent, and you expected e to say "no, thank you"? No, thank you.)
IMDB searches didn't help, Google searches didn't help, I'm getting nowhere. I describe the film briefly to him, and he tries this search.
"Well, that didn't work," quoth he, "it just gave me a list of lesbian movies."
Beat.
Beat.
"Um, Eric? Let me look at that...."
Of course Antonia was second on the list. Dutch, rather than German, of course, and had I thought to look at the Academy Awards I might have worked it out.
May 11, 2004
Song of Someone Else
A must read biography of Walt Whitman.
"Hey, hey Crash, does that mean what I think it means? Limpid jets of love...."
April 23, 2004
QotD: Erdos Number
"If you're smart enough to want to write a paper with me, you should be smart enough to know that I'm serious about the money, too."
Update: the explanation.
April 2, 2004
A Wait For Whenever
How long have we been waiting on A Method For Madness?
Even David Gerrold has managed to complete a trilogy in that time. Sheesh.
Note that this wait period does not include the six years of silence between the day I bought book four and the day I first caught rumor of book five. Just since then.
I can wait.
It's even possible that I can wait politely.
But no, I cannot wait patently. What's the point? It's not going to go any faster if I'm patient, so I might as well get in some theraputic kvetching.
Wait.
Wait.
Wait.
April 1, 2004
Thar he blows!
Right Whale mating. Yes, this is the sort of topic that comes up when I go to parties.
The amusing part of this was that my original Google search terms were whale mating, which didn't turn up what I was looking for. So I tried whale mating porn, and bingo.
Editorial comment from ALLCAPS: Please specify breed of goat.
March 23, 2004
Oral Sex in the Bible
And ever since, whenever anyone has asked me the question "Father, what is the church's attitude towards fellatio?" I always reply, "Well, you know, I'd like to tell you...[more ]
March 22, 2004
Help
> Help
At this point, you have two options for help.
1. Wait until someone gets around to writing the help.
B. Wait until it no longer matters that no one wrote the help.
February 13, 2004
Keep the ballast in the basket
Headline from Washington Post: "Kerry Gets Clark's Backing.
As Wis. primary looms, Edwards and Dean hope to slow his momentum."
Edwards and Dean hope to slow down Kerry by saddling him with Clark? That's damn good thinking.
February 10, 2004
Bird's eye view of navigation
Pigeon Navigation Systems: follow the roads the humans keep putting everywhere.
This restores some of my lost faith in the universe.
I'm reminded a little of returning home from school - I had been studying Mandarin, and my father suggested that I be the one to place our takeout order from our favorite Chinese restaurant. "Happy to!" says I. "Hello Chopsticks? Could we please have a #4, and #7, and two #23s, extra spicy? I'll be there to pick it up in twenty minutes."
December 10, 2003
Line of the day
"OutOfMemoryError? Are you kidding me? I've sent people into orbit using less memory than that."
December 3, 2003
Transplanted Yankees
Inspired by Kuff's case of mistaken identity, I relate a similar tale of my father.
Back in the days when working for DEC was a pretty good gig, he went to Atlanta on a business trip. Sweet Southern Belle, signing him in at registration, recognized his home town: "Lancaster! I know where Lancaster is!"
Lancaster (with it's population of 5K or so at the time) has no great notoriety - not in the last 300 years or so; so my father called her on it - how does she know where Lancaster is?
A quick cast about, and then the whisper, in the familiar sound of the harsh rocks of Boston: "cuz I'm from doorchestah!"
December 2, 2003
Third Wave
The first snow flurry of the season.
First wave: leaves home at 9:00, arrives at work 9:10, notices the abundance of parking, shrugs it off and sets to the tasks of the day.
Second wave: leaves home at 9:00, gets caught in traffic, arrives at work at 12:00....
Third wave: leaves home at 9:00, gets caught in traffic, goes home for lunch, starts out again, arrives at work at 12:30.
Our visitors from Colorado were amused.
November 24, 2003
Traditional Family Values
Real Live Preacher offers an uncut version of the Christmas Story.
It is unlikely that Mary rode a donkey in the last stages of her pregnancy. It is unlikely that the census required her to make the journey at all. In her state she could have stayed at home with her mother. Why Joseph brought her is something of a mystery.
That's rather diplomatic of you, Preacher, but Joseph's motivation is hardly enigmatic.
Meanwhile, Frothing at the Mouth Lad tips his readers towards Kynn Barlett's review of the relationships in the Old Testament. Is the Bible really anti-family?
November 23, 2003
Breathed
Noticed that the odd bit of litter on my lawn was a complimentary copy of the Boston Globe. Frankly, I don't even pay all that much attention to even the online version any more. But it's November 23, which means that they sent me a complimentary copy of the opening salvo of Opus.
Enh. If you had to write one comic strip to save your life, I hope that wasn't it.
I guess my main problem is that Opus was never the interesting character in that strip. I doubt I'll manage to follow along - if it isn't online, it doesn't exist.
June 30, 2003
Sounds that annoy cats: is there no band with this name? How did that happen?