Flexagons: Fun. I first got to play with them back in the 60s. I always wanted a flexagon business card. … [Read more...]
Our Lady of the Shitty Tools
September 30, 2012 By 23 Comments
Anybody who’s ever worked with hand tools will recognize what I’m about to say: You can buy shitty tools. I mean, there are companies out there who actually make and sell shitty tools. Tools deliberately MADE to break, or perform badly during use. It’s a price-point thing, of course. … [Read more...]
60th Birthday Whale Watching Tour a Success!
September 7, 2012 By 20 Comments
I done seen whales! But you don't get to see them unless you click below the fold. The pictures are so awesome, so breathtaking, that I fear you will be awed and breath-taked to the point that you'll pass out and fall onto a smaller, less massive bystander — possibly a child or a dog. Meanwhile, content yourself with this picture of an extremely rare bird known as a "sea gull." (Click to embiggen.) … [Read more...]
Visits from Dead People — Part 1
July 24, 2012 By 11 Comments
When I was younger, I used to play with myself. No, not like that. Okay, well, yes like that, but that’s not what I meant. (Too much information, huh? The hell with it, I’m leaving it in. We’re all sexy beasts here.) What I mean is that I used to play with different parts of my body, to see what I could learn from them, to see what they would do. … [Read more...]
Monster Under the Bed Scientifically Identified!
July 22, 2012 By 7 Comments
Given the common name of the thing, I would swear the Neoclinus blanchardi is a spoof. (Click the pic to embiggen.) Yet Wikipedia describes it thus: … [Read more...]
Maverick Blogger Pioneers World’s First Blog Post Reboot!
July 21, 2012 By 2 Comments
Seeing the new Batman movie last night, I had this exciting epiphany about blogging. Blogging is enormously demanding of time and energy. You have to turn out a completely new post at least every few days. For some bloggers, it's a new post several times EACH DAY. But sitting in the theater and looking around at the happy faces, movie-goers content to see yet another Batman movie and plop down $9.50 for the privilege, I thought about reboots. … [Read more...]
Death From Above! Sloppy Bats!
July 15, 2012 By 18 Comments
If you've read my Falling Leaves post on Earth Day, you know I have a somewhat grim view of what's coming. Based on nothing more complex than the fact that we have no way to control human population growth, and will probably never have a conscious, deliberate way, we are screwing ourselves out of a future. Control will come from outside, via natural forces, and it will be ugly. On that light-hearted subject, here's an interesting article from the New York Times: The Ecology of Disease. … [Read more...]
God Weighs In on ‘God Particle’ Discovery
July 4, 2012 By 6 Comments
“I wish people would stop bringing Me into it.” So complained God, the supernatural superbeing and all-powerful deity of the Bible, in an exclusive interview today with FreethoughtBlogs’ Blue Collar Atheist. We sat in a small café in Schenectady, New York. On the day after Rolf Heuer, director of European physics research center CERN, announced the likely discovery of the Higgs Boson, God appeared in a blinding flash at roughly 9:17 a.m. (all the clocks stopped, as did most of the … [Read more...]
O Texas, My Texas! Where Did You Go Wrong?
July 1, 2012 By 16 Comments
This is from a document entitled "2012 REPUBLICAN PARTY OF TEXAS / Report of Platform Committee and Rules Committee." Assuming I'm doing this right, you can download a PDF of the thing here: 2012-Platform-Final Believe THIS shit: … [Read more...]
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