Thomas Edison invented the first tattoo gun. Apparently he intended it to be a device to make stencils for printing, but at some point it was re-appropriated by artists with other interests.

Found this out from a blurb from an old issue of Wired...

Last night, Barry Bonds hit his 756th career home run, breaking Hank Aaron's record that stood for over 30 years ( Read more... )

On the way home on the LIRR, I saw a pair of ads, one showing a sitting woman, topless, from the back, against an Alpine background, and another showing a man, also topless and sitting, from profile, with the same background. They were ads for bottled water ( Read more... )

I climbed out of the burning wreckage, dazed and confused. The other passengers appeared to have all burned to a crisp. Why was I untouched? What was the laughing old beggar trying to say to me ( Read more... )

My updates up until now have been sparse, I'm-still-alive-and-this-is-what-I-have-been-doing-for-the-last-two-weeks-type deals. Today, though, I am embarking on a business trip to Transylvania--I mean, Minnesota, and I will try to wield the power of Blackberry to squeeze in as many entries as I can, with as many details as I can, and see what ( Read more... )

OK, I need to get something off my chest. Some time ago, when there was a hiring boom, my company acquired a couple of shuttle buses to get the many Manhattan/Queens/Brooklyn people from the train station to the office. The thing that has bothered me since day 1 was that the buses we purchased had the main passenger door on the left side, right ( Read more... )

It's hard to express in words how beautiful the Mister Softee jingle is when you're standing in the cold night waiting for the bus. Especially since it just happened to herald the arrival of the bus.

Random Beer Name Generator

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Now new and improved with auto-beer style technology!
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Phil McCrackin's Stinky Rat Bock

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Unfortunately not very post-friendly.

As I looked at the person sleeping across from me on the train, I realized that whenever a person has their eyes closed, their lenses cause a bulge in their eyelids. That really unsettled me for some reason. It's probably because we think of the eyes as the opening between the eyelids, but when a person's eyes are closed, and I can see the lens, ( Read more... )

The snow is so beautiful tonight, it breaks my heart to tread upon it.