Today I received a random call that went about as follows ( Read more... )

One word: XKCD. If you don't read this comic, you are missing out. This guy seems to never run out of material...

(And don't forget to read the mouse-over text)

"Grow up, or die."

I just finished watching Religulous.  10 gold stars.  I love Bill Maher.  

Here is a secret from Post Secret this week.  The image was appropriately titled 'yikes' when I checked the properties. 


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Do you remember when the Russian sub Kursk sank while running practice exercises in 2000, and the international community had offered to help with a rescue mission but the Russian government said that there were no survivors to rescue and that they would handle it on their own? 
Well, there were survivors.  After the sub was salvaged, there were ( Read more... )

This is Jack Burton in the Porkchop Express and I'm talkin' to whoever's listening out there.

I am re-reading Everything is Illuminated (again), and I came across this passage:

And when Yankel said he would die for Brod, he certainly meant it, but that thing he would die for was not Brod, exactly, but his love for her.  And when she said 'Father, I love you,' she was neither naive nor dishonest, but the opposite:  she was wise and truthful ( Read more... )

I forget how great of an album this is. It seems like each time I listen to it, I am astounded a little bit because it has some really beautiful tracks.

RIP Terrence McKenna.

We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR; create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the ( Read more... )

Today is a paid holiday, and I can't help but feel like a kid playing hooky from school when I am not working on a weekday.