Godel, Escher, Bach - copyright 1979

Freakonomics - copyright 2005

I am in a class full of people who have never so much as heard of either.

I need to surround myself with better people.

Apparently websites don't understand the word "enough". The best they can get is "nobody cares anymore, 'k".

And for postsecret people, does anybody else think the title for the "I promise to be the best parent ever!" card this week is three letters too short?

Can any good come from an aspiring game designer who doesn't want to hear about other games for fear of polluting his ideas? Sadly, he wasn't the most reactionary one at the table ( Read more... )

How people were certain that Barack Obama was a muslim now assume that he agrees with his former pastor on all issues.

More personally, getting an entire church youth group to read Good Omens entirely by accident. Especially having never met any of the kids.

Is there a word for when an entire battlefield is given up as worthless? Not hopeless, but when the entire thing is realized to be entirely without use.

I just came up with a really good way to explain a major pet peeve of mine. Unfortunately, the explanation involves nazis. Thereby rendering it invalid for rhetoric or explanation.

(Footnote, when I was describing it my friend had his own interesting tale of discovering the meaning of eugenics. Some people are worth keeping around just for the

Stormcloud skies have something no other skies can match. Especially for sunsets.

Normally I skip the interview segment of Colbert, but tonight's guest was part of an issue I actually care about. The interviewee was skilled enough not to make a complete buffoon out of himself, but he raised one of my personal psuedoscience pet peeves. One I'd rather like to see retired in the near future ( Read more... )

Fireworks, rain, and an ice cream headache. Channeling pure summer is a good thing. Now to just get past that last tricky bit.

Tonight's lack of forethought award goes to the chick who came up to me with a vampire clan tattoo. Old school, natch. This also exemplifies the reason why I raise an eyebrow whenever anyone makes a forever statement. Of any sort ( Read more... )