I read with a good deal of sadness that Mr. Wizard died yesterday morning. For all of you youngsters, he was like Beakman or Bill Nye, oldschool-style. His experiments were decidedly a low-fi sort of affair, but they were entertaining…
5:30am, local time Id: WAKE UP. Ego: …*snrrrrk* Wha? Huh? Gah! I: WE WAKE UP. NOW. E: What the heck time is it… Idiot! It’s bleedin’ 5:30 in the bleedin’ morning! Let’s go back to sleep. I: IS NOT. IS…
[Recorded somewhere over Western Pennsylvania or possibly Ohio, I think, 6:07pm EDT] After an unspecified “paperwork”-based delay of almost 45 minutes (due, according to the pilot, to a delayed or mishandled flight from either Phoenix or Las Vegas, curse you…
It’s that time again — time for some bigtime link aggregation. So strap in and enjoy the ride, y’all. PA liquor laws are stupid, unpopular. Sky blue, Pope Catholic, Queen English. I pride myself on being a bit of a…
I used to be regularly derided by friends and acquaintances of all stripe for my use of “SAT words”, generally defined as words that do not see regular use in the populace at large and thus achieve a “nerdy” gloss.…
Frank J. offers a FAQ from the White House in re: the forthcoming illegal-immigration amnesty- and crime-enablingreform bill. To wit: Q. I’m concerned that the immigration bill focuses more on giving illegal immigrants amnesty than border protection. Does the President…
Will has been getting increasingly verbal in the past couple of months, but unfortunately, it’s of a peculiar sort. He has said “kitty”, “cup”, “ball”, “truck” and a host of other words, but each and every one only once. The…
What do you get when you congregate a bunch of medical doctors and scientists with little to keep themselves amused? You find out that Abraham Lincoln might have survived, had he had access to 21st century medical technology. Next up,…
Word on the street has it that your fall T.V. schedule is in trouble. Your Thursday night comedy lineup is critically-approved but audience-ignored, your procedural crime dramas are going nowhere fast, you canceled yet another Aaron Sorkin show (bad move…
Now this is a doozy. A company called “MRT” has decided to sue Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and Real Networks because MRT claims that Vista, Adobe Flash Player, Real Player, iTunes and the iPod have been produced “without regard for the…
