Yup, I’m talking about the MacArthur Genius Grants.
Excerpts From Hamlet’s Facebook News Feed
Horatio thinks he saw a ghost. Hamlet thinks it’s annoying when your uncle marries your mother right after your dad dies. The king thinks Hamlet’s annoying. Laertes thinks Ophelia can do better. Hamlet’s father is now a zombie. – – – – The king poked the queen. The queen poked the king back. Hamlet and the queen are no longer … Read More
Call Me Howie
So I sat down at 4:00 pm to play a game of online poker. $11.00 entry fee for 3,000 chips. 2,907 players in an elimination tournament, which means the later you get eliminated, the more of the prize pool you win. 9 hours and 40 minutes later (yes, 1:40 am) one guy was standing with over 17,000,000 chips. Me. I … Read More
Where Are The Ashfords?
APM = Ashfords Per Million Top Countries Country APM UNITED KINGDOM 95.51 AUSTRALIA 71.84 NEW ZEALAND 68.67 CANADA 40.8 UNITED STATES 27.76 LUXEMBOURG 8.5 IRELAND 3.77 DENMARK 0.98 BELGIUM 0.86 SWITZERLAND 0.64 Top Regions Area Name APM WEST MIDLANDS , UNITED KINGDOM 205.79 SOUTH WEST , UNITED KINGDOM 193.53 EAST ANGLIA , UNITED KINGDOM 185.88 NORTHERN TERRITORY , AUSTRALIA 168.34 … Read More
Forever Young
Being stuck in a hospital has caused me to be a bit nostalgic. So I’ve decided to upload my yearbook photos from years gone by….. 1950 1956 1960 1964 1970 1974 1978 1984 1988 1990 1994 2000
Sicko
Cheryl managed to smuggle in my laptop and I’ve hacked in to the Wake Forest Baptist Hospital computer, so I can inform the outside world of what’s going on. Actually, Cheryl carried in my laptop and that have free Internet access…. What’s going on is…. hell if I know. I went to my GP on Friday. It was my second … Read More
Yeah, So I Collapsed At Work…
…and was taken by ambulance to the emergency room, where I hung out for nine hours all told, and then was finally sent home me with the news that I had a ruptured colon. [CLARIFICATION: Ok, not that I had a ruptured colon…. more like an infected colon which could rupture if it hasn’t already, so I have to take … Read More
Emily Will Eat Them Anyway
More fun from the CakeWrecks blog, which features badly-decorated cakes. Here are some cakes where the decorators misunderstood some rather simple instructions….
Mostly Male
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 37% Likelihood of you being MALE is 63% That’s me. It comes from a place on the Internet which reads your browsing history, and determines whether you are a man or a woman. Thank God I’ve made a few visits to mlb.com…..
The Seventh Sense Recommends…
NYC THEATRE Boeing, Boeing This farcical comedy was a real surprise for me. Written by French playwright Marc Camoletti in 1958, the play never did well in the United States until its recent Broadway revival. It is the most-performed French play throughout the world. After taking Paris by storm in 1958, it was translated into English in 1963 and played … Read More
I’m Almost Ready To Say “Let Him Go”
I had no problem with letting Nomar go. I thought he was overrated and more trouble than he was worth. Same with Pedro. But Manny? He’s the backbone of the team. He rocks. On the other hand, he’s such a prick: On Wednesday, he spoke by telephone with ESPNdeportes.com. "The Red Sox don’t deserve a player like me," Ramirez said. … Read More
When Good Cakes Go Bad
Cake Wrecks: an entire blog devoted to badly decorated cakes. They tend to be either bad in execution, i.e., spelling errors like "Congraniation Nicole and Mark" … or cakes which really just never should have been made in the first place.
Got MILFs
Judy Pike, a dear old friend from from Tufts, turns — and I’m estimating here, based on the fact that she was a senior when I was a freshman — 49 years old today. Suzanne Evon, an ex-girlfriend and even more endearing current friend, turns 50 this coming weekend. What happened? When did we get old? I mean, I can … Read More
You’re 40, and Nobody Likes You
But happy birthday anyway, cubicle: The cubicle celebrates its 40th birthday this month. A party is unlikely. What’s to celebrate? The cubicle office system is one of the most derided realities of modern work life. Somehow, the spaces that white-collar worker bees unlovingly refer to as “cubes” have become an icon for all that is confining, uninspiring, soulless and humdrum … Read More
Starbucks Closings
The full list of 600 closings has been announced. CNNMoney has a nice state-searchableGoogle map of the affected stores. Only one in the Triad — in the shopping plaza at the corner of Country Club Rd. and Peace Haven Road.