After six months and almost 800,000 words, I'm finally done.

Here are two gems from Seth,

What's the connection between beans and Egyptian mummies?

They have Tutankhamen (toot-in-common).

Did you hear about the new mouse bar?

It's a real hole-in-the-wall.

So the great nerd that I am, I have been getting into classical music a lot more lately, but it's been bothering me that the metadata system for mp3s isn't great for classical music. So I've decided to structure that schema a bit, so I can save all of the information by putting the performers in the Album Title field and putting the composer in ( Read more... )

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Here is a worthwhile short essay on the cultural impact of the "War on Terror"

The War on the Unexpected

My library's collection is so small that our accession numbers are in binary.

I just watched Jon Stewart spend 15 minutes talking to George Tenet, in an interview which really reinforced why Stephen Colbert's show is a lot better than Stewart's. Stewart is really just always ready to be bombastic and to follow lines of thought that aren't well thought out. It makes for decent entertainment with some guests, but Tenet ( Read more... )

Nick Cave and (some of) the Bad Seeds have started writing songs about not getting laid.

Lots of animals doing it, here. Steer clear if you don't dig on animals doing it.

I've got a six-pack of Bigfoot. Ya'll know what that means...

I had an awful experience last night. I was making oatmeal. When I do this, first a scoop of oatmeal goes into a bowl, then I pour cold milk over top of it, and then I microwave it. Last night, when I poured the milk onto my oatmeal, dozens of little insects floated to the surface of the milk. They were alive, and they were waving their ( Read more... )