What is Walk Score? Walk Score helps people find walkable places to live. Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc: 90 – 100 = Walkers’ Paradise: Most errands can be accomplished on foot and many people get by without owning a car. 70 – 90 = Very Walkable: It’s possible to … Read More
The Red Shirt Phenomenon
An analytics experts examine the data, and discovers that — yes, indeed — the "red shirts" on Star Trek (the poor saps who beam down to the planet with Kirk) do indeed die with more regularity than their yellow or bllue shirt counterparts. For those of you too uninterested in reading his scholarly article, perhaps you might enjoy his powerpoint … Read More
Sur L’étang D’or [On Golden Pond]
Associated Press: French President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday lost it with two American news photographers covering his New Hampshire vacation – jumping onto their boat and loudly berated them. The confrontation came as Sarkozy and his companions sailed along Lake Winnipesaukee. He spotted Associated Press photographer Jim Cole and freelancer Vince DeWitt aboard Cole’s boat, which was outside a buoy barrier … Read More
You Sockdologizing Old Man-trap!
An interest website showing English words that are no longer used. Having taken a brief look, I can say with confidence: these words will not be missed. A sample: novaturient adj 1679 -1679 desiring changes or alterations The novel’s author rightly rejected the novaturient wishes of the screenwriters orgiophant n 1886 -1886 one who presides over orgies The orgiophant had … Read More
Crime Spree
Clever idea for a book. I love it. Two guys go on a crime spree across America, and write a book about it. It’s entitled "You Can Get Arrested For That". The laws they broke? Stupid ones. For example, it is illegal in Chicago to go fishing in your pajamas. So…. In Pittsburgh, it is illegal to sleep on … Read More
Unintentional?
Heh: THE call letters KUNT have landed at a yet-unbuilt low-power digital television station in Wailuku, Maui. Alarmingly similar to a word the dictionary says is obscene, the call letters were among a 15-page list of new call letters issued by the Federal Communications Commission and released this week. The same station owner also received KWTF for a station in … Read More
The Full Monty: Epilogue
Show closings are always bittersweet for everyone involved, but I think for everyone associated with the LTWS/CTG production of The Full Monty, it was particularly hard. Myself included. It seems like years since we sat around on first rehearsal, with everyone stating their name and who they are playing. But it was only a couple of months ago. For me, … Read More
How Old Am I?
According to this place, I have 16 years left on this planet: Biological Age: 44 Real Age*: 51.4 Average Life Expectancy: 75 Your Life Expectancy: 67.6 Well, that’s a fine how-do-you-do! Guess I gotta make some changes…. *Age based on health, lifestyle and habits
High Flying, Adored
NASA astronauts flying in space …drunk? Astronauts?!? Hmmmmm….. Top Ten Signs Your Starship Captain is a Drunkard 10) When Spock mind probes him, Spock gets hammered.9) Wakes up next to a Klingon chick at least once a week.8) Starts the ship’s self-destruct sequence just to fuck with the yeoman who blew him off in the officer’s lounge.7) Each time you … Read More
LOL Cats
Time magazine focuses on the web phenomenon, icanhasacheezburger.com: Take a picture of a cat doing something cute. Then make up a caption–something witty that the cat would be saying if cats could talk. Bear in mind that cats can’t spell all that well and that they’re not so hot on subject-verb agreement either. Photoshop the caption onto the image, and … Read More
Death-Predicting Cat?
Associated Press: PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means they have less than … Read More
The Fifteen Most Frequently Used Words On Blogs
Not sure if this is true, but this guy, citing a Oxford University Press study, says the 15 most-used words on blogs are: bloggerblogstupidmemyselfmyohyeahokpoststufflovelyupdateniceshit Oh, my. Just thought I would post this stupid shit on my blog, okay? UPDATE: Yeah. Lovely stuff, huh? Nice.