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Missed Advertising Opportunities!

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:17:11 -0500

I was waiting to give my 26th unit of blood yesterday, when I saw something I don't see every day: a blimp.

Watching that dirigible fly around the sky while I was giving blood helped keep my mind pleasantly occupied. Afterward, I was walking back to work and got a better look at the aircraft -- it was for Outback Steakhouse.

Now, I didn't go and get a steak dinner. But I thought about it. And that's more than I can say for every other form of advertising I've been bombarded with lately.

Pirates! With Tanks!

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:27:26 -0500

Pirates Seize Ship Carrying Tanks, Ammo

It's not often you see news stories involving the following actors:

Pirates
The Ukraine
Tanks

Seriously. Now it's going to be even more dangerous to sail off the coast of Somalia -- because the pirates are going to be armed with tanks!

Waking up on the Funny Side of Bed

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:27:04 -0500

Since my wife started her new job as a Assistant State Public Defender, we've been working on getting used to a much earlier schedule.

This has forced us to do several things, in the spirit of making the 5:30-5:45 AM wakeup period as automatic as possible, including:

Streamlining the bathroom
Adding new bathroom shelving
Reorganizing drawers in the bedroom
Pre-making coffee and tea (a lifesaver!)

Still, since we've been at it only for a week, we haven't quite gotten in the groove; I end up getting in her way taking showers, etc.

So, it was a little bit surprising to me when this morning my wife started laughing while the alarm clock was not-so-pleasantly waking us from peaceful slumber. It turns out she had a very elegant, parallel solution to the morning "bathroom problem."

Use the second bathroom.

It's really a shame that it took two people with advanced degrees in law and nuclear engineering a week to figure that one out. :)

I Wish I Could Say it Better...

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:18:25 -0500

Today's XKCD cross-post:

Seriously, though -- these machines should be taken away and dismantled. I may be a fervent fan of new technology, computers, and the like, but when it comes to the foundation of our democracy, I'm very happy with good old-fashioned paper. I'll happily wait *gasp* a day to find out the election results, as long as they're verifiable!

An interesting choice...

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:28:21 -0500

Turns out San Francisco is going to have a ballot initiative to rename a sewage plant after G.W. Bush.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/17/presidential.putdown.ap/index.html

Here's hoping it succeeds! ;) (I especially like the predictable phrase "Local Republicans say the plan stinks and they will oppose it.")

REAL Programmers...

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:07:57 -0600

I've had this discussion myself:

http://xkcd.com/378

While I think emacs is awesome, it's a nice commentary. :)

Genius, pure genius:

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:31:26 -0600

http://xkcd.com/371

Sometimes, this is how I feel the public understands my work

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:23:36 -0500

Gotta love The Onion. This time, they artfully blend the concept of ITER with that of a particle accelerator like CERN. Of course, there's the amazing infographic, too:

Look familiar? (Yay fusion!)

Nothing like independent confirmation...

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:06:53 -0500

Version 2.0 is here! The results...

... are in good agreement with the original test. Except now I'm Uber Cool in addition to being a Nerd God. I like it.

Looks like this Senator got a little more than he bargained for!

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:46:36 -0500

ID Senator arrested in Mpls/St. Paul International, pleads guilty to illicit, lewd behavior

Go undercover cops, go!

You Know You're In Love When...

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:36:49 -0600

... you hear the following from your significant other:

"Well, if I go crazy, just give me a duck that quacks like a whale and put me in a padded room. I think I'd still love you."

The scary thing is, I've already heard the duck. It quacks like a whale.

Only in Wisconsin

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:14:49 -0500

Isn't it great when the state in which you live gets 'interesting' press coverage?

It would seem that the Republican candidate for Wisconsin Secretary of State is using her affairs with Packers players in the 60's as a campaign tactic.

Wow. Just -- wow.

You Know You're In Graduate School...

Thu, 04 May 2006 16:05:48 -0500

... when your pen runs out of ink as a result of working on the math for your magnetohydrodynamics final. :)

As a followup to my last post, there has been an amazing response at a blog set up to thank Colbert for his performance. With more than 45,000 comments (the vast majority compliments/thank yous) in less than a week -- and growing rapidly -- it would seem that his performance struck a resonance with the American people!

A Newfound Appreciation For Stephen Colbert

Mon, 01 May 2006 20:01:17 -0500

Stephen Colbert made a great speech at the White House Correspondents' dinner on Saturday.

All I can say is that if you haven't seen this routine, you need to. My particular favorite zinger:

"I mean, nothing satisfies [the White House Correspondents]. Everybody asks for personnel changes. So the White House has personnel changes. Then you write, 'Oh, they're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.' First of all, that is a terrible metaphor. This administration is not sinking. This administration is soaring -- if anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg!"

Colbert certainly has... guts... to be able to give the delivery he did with President Bush less than six feet away.

And perhaps of more interesting note, the New York Times completely omitted Colbert's sharp performance at the event, which also included a performance by a Bush lookalike. Perhaps Colbert was hitting too close to home with certain lapdogs of the Administration?

This is NOT Funny

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:33:03 -0600

Miss Deaf Texas Killed by Freight Train

She never heard it coming...

Is it wrong to laugh (at first) to this terrible tradgedy? It is unfortunately ironic.