Friday’s Random “Titles I Made Up For The Paintings They Just Hung On My Floor At Work”
"A House, And It’s Snowing" "Autumn" "Country Boy Standing In A Swamp For Some Reason" "A Bunch Of Seashells In Front Of A Couple Of Windows" "Strange Lady (Badly In Need Of A Hairdresser) On Her Porch" "Another House – Gee, That’s Original" "Abandoned Boats" "A French Fop, A Lady From the Folies Bergere, And Spilled Paint" "Poster From What … Read More
Hurricane Farce
Read Billmon’s satirical "Hurricane Force" please.
Blog Meme Of The Week
I saw this at The Talent Show: Rules: 1. Go into your archive. 2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to). 3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to). 4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions. Okay. My result (from a post dated February 12, 2004): "Maybe something to do with ‘same sex … Read More
“Potentially Catastrophic”
Those are the words being used to describe Rita, the "monster" Category 5 hurricane heading toward Texas. Of course, it also applies to this situation: American League Eastern Division W L Pct GB Home Road Streak New York 88 63 .583 – 50-27 38-36 Won 3 Boston 88 64 .579 0.5 50-24 38-40 Lost 1 Toronto 74 77 .490 14.0 … Read More
Useful Database
Tired of being caught up in a big company’s automated recorded voicemail (also known as "voice-jail")? Want to speak to an actual human being? If so, then check out this online database. It shows you the phone "shortcut" so you don’t have to listen to all of the ridiculous menu options. Some examples: Astoria Federal Savings — 800-ASTORIA — When … Read More
The Hurricane Named After Me SUCKS!
TROPICAL WEATHER DISCUSSIONNWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL1605 UTC TUE SEP 20 2005 TROPICAL WEATHER DISCUSSION FOR THE EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN FROM THE EQUATOR TO 32N…EAST OF 140W. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS BASED ON SATELLITE IMAGERY…WEATHER OBSERVATIONS…RADAR…AND METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS. BASED ON 1200 UTC SURFACE ANALYSIS AND SATELLITE IMAGERY THROUGH 1545 UTC. …SPECIAL FEATURES… HURRICANE KENNETH IS NEAR 13.2N 131.4W 987 … Read More
Arrrrrr, Matey!
Curse it! I didn’t get thee memo! I wurz supposed to be talkin’ like the pirate that I be! Avast ye! Someone shall be walin’ the planks fer this! And mehears there be a program for to be doing that thar very thing. Ye can download it here, shiver me timbers!
This Guy Doesn’t Like Horses
No fan of the horsies, he.
Friday Random Vogon Poetry
Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturations are to me As plurdled gabbleblotchits On a lurgid bee. Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon See if I don’t. – Vogon Captain [For those of you who don’t know…. Vogon poetry is of course, the … Read More
Close Shaves
About thirty years ago, there was a very popular commercial for a double-track razor — a disposable razor with two blades. Demonstrated through a fake-y cartoon close-up of a man’s cheek, gullible consumers were informed that the double razor was better. Why? Because the first blade pushes the whisker forward, priming it for the death hack from the second razor … Read More
Google Blog Search
This is cool. Google has always had the ability to include blogs in its search results, but now it has the ability to search blogs exclusively. It’s just like regular Google, but the results only give you blogs. You can also limit the results to a specific blog, and doing so yields more results than a regular Google search. Mmmmm. … Read More