I wish I had something to write about, but the sad fact is that all I have to say is that the sleeping cat is making noises exactly the dolphins in the deep sea episode of Planet Earth. Do cats have sonar?

You obviously have to come see the band. With me. Harry and the Potters are playing Slim's next week (Friday, 6/29). Bonus opener: Jurassic Park IV: The Musical.

Come on. Do you want to have nerd cred or don't you?

Besides: they are so, very, adorable.

This is a new one on me. Antonin Scalia's latest argument against outlawing torture, is apparently, that it works on TV:

The conservative jurist stuck up for Agent Bauer, arguing that fictional or not, federal agents require latitude in times of great crisis. “Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles. . . He saved hundreds of thousands of lives,” Judge ( Read more... )

Dear past and present Dragonlance readers:

Will someone please make Tracy Hickman a website where "intellectual" is spelled correctly? The one he has is causing stabbing pains to shoot through my eyeballs. Margaret Weis never abuses us like this.

Guessing game time!

When do you think the following proposal was made?

The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soldiers to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another.
How utterly smashing. What do you think ( Read more... )

Got up early this morning to make it to the office for a meeting which no one else bothered to come to. May actually be invisible, in which case I'm totally sneaking into the executive bathroom. Will advise.

In further commute adventures, got stuck in traffic with yodasminion last night, behind a guy who was methodically opening his driver-side door every ( Read more... )

Great moments in terrible diplomacy, G-8 summit edition:

"Russia is not an enemy," Bush said, seeking not to inflame a heated exchange of rhetoric between Washington and Moscow. "There needs to be no military response because we're not at war with Russia."

Oh, well, I'm glad we got that cleared up. How -- how -- did they possibly get into a ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: the Harry and the Potters rockumentary(Okay, I tell a lie: it's actually a documentary about the wizard rock movement. Wizard rock movement. Say that three times and feel your chances of reproducing dwindling ( Read more... )

From the AP:

Federal authorities said a plot by a suspected Muslim terrorist cell to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport, its fuel tanks and a jet fuel artery could have caused "unthinkable" devastation.

Oh man. Unthinkable devestatation? That sounds terrible. Tell me more.

Despite their efforts, the men never obtained any explosives, ( Read more... )

You know what would be an awesome kitten name?

Stockholm Syndrome.