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Because it's that time of night for me
The Sciences Sing a Lullabye
by Albert Goldbarth
Physics says: go to sleep. Of course
you're tired. Every atom in you
has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes
nonstop from mitosis to now.
Quit tapping your feet. They'll dance
inside themselves without you. Go to sleep.
Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch ( Read more... ) -
Today's moment of Wrong
Customer's Cell Phone: (In John Darnielle's voice) I'm listening to dance music, dance music...
Customer, picking up: Oh, hi Dad.
Me: ...
Still me: ... -
Bart Ferchaud
He could look more aggressive than anyone I've met, but I never saw him angry at anyone ( Read more... ) -
Debate impressions
I can't get over just how much McCain looked like Nixon tonight, with his shoulders up by his ears and his neck hunched forward. I really expected him to hold up his fingers in a "four more years" gesture at any moment.
Horserace-wise, I think it's pretty much over for McCain. FFS, I live in Missouri, and we're polling at Obama+3. McCain needed a ( Read more... ) -
Those time-travelling, economy-wrecking bastards
Secretary Henry "Give me unlimited power" Paulson, on who is to blame for our current financial woes (emphasis mine):
I'm angered by the things that got us here....It may make you angry, it makes me angry. When you ask about the taxpayers being on the hook, guess what? They're already on the hook. They got put on the hook by the system we have, ( Read more... ) -
700,000,000,000 Dollars
Think about that number for a moment. It's the sort of number which should only be said in the way Paulson says it by a character named "Dr. Evil"
Think about the Bush administration trying the same "It's an emergency! You must push through this plan that we just happen to have already written months ago. You must do it without taking the time for ( Read more... ) -
100 Pushup Challenge update
Made it through week two, though today's sets were the first ones so far that I really had to work for. My theory is that that's mostly because I did today's at 07:30 on three hours of sleep and without eating first, as opposed to my normal post-lunch pushups. I'll see how the exhaustion test goes monday and decide whether or not I need to repeat ( Read more... )
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