I was looking for a Charlie Brown baseball quote to start this off, to make a correlation to the Yankees' unfortunate finish to their season, and found this instead! Wikipedia actually has an entry for the kite-eating tree! It's quite funny ( Read more... )

Here's some news for you ( Read more... )

On a mathematical note, I've been running into a rather funny theme quite a few times recently. It has to do with the perception of probability and how people view it and interpret the numbers to draw their conclusions. Specifically how tiny probabilites are so easily skewed when other factors are misinterpreted ( Read more... )

I'm in a silly mood, so here's some maps:

Our wild and crazy trip to Denver:
( Nationals 2004 )

I was awarded a Distinguished Service Key this weekend at the sectionals banquet. I was so surprised I didn't even know what to say in response to that aside from just staring blankly ( Read more... )

Last week I got to listen to a reading by Chuck, and see him afterwards for a bit. He's the guy that wrote Fight Club, as well as many other interesting books, many of which I still have to read ( Read more... )

It seems a reoccuring theme in today's news, politics, and conversations, in one way or another, is the idea of the moral absolute. Quite a few people believe that there are many morales and ethical issues for which there is only one right/correct/good way to handle them, and all other options are wrong/evil/bad. The basic idea stems mostly from ( Read more... )

As always, a simple trip turns into adventure and hilarity ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday Shannon!

May your bday be full of rock stars, hobbits, and sweaty DDR players in dress clothes!

:-P

Thanks to everyone for all of the birthday love, messages, cards, frogs, ice cream, chocolate, DDRing, drinks, staying all up late FUN yesterday!

All I gotta say is that you guys ROCK!

With friends like you, who needs caffeine ;-)