From the side of a box for the "Magic Ball", some cheap doo-dad that has flashing lights and annoying music. It was a giveaway prize at a gathering on campus last week. I'm not kidding - I have photocopies to prove it. Product liability lawyers would probably have a heart attack if they read this ( Read more... )

My fellow Americans ( Read more... )

While driving across the 16th St. Bridge this morning, a Port Authority bus got a little close and clipped my drivers side mirror ( Read more... )

Foreword: yeah I'm a computer geek, so sue me ( Read more... )

I noticed today that very few people seem to walk correctly anymore. Maybe this is due to people sometimes wearing shoes that practically fall off of their feet every time they take a step, but these people mostly shuffle or slide their feet along the ground rather than picking their feet up and taking pronounced steps like we were all taught in ( Read more... )

A year or so ago, there was an ad campaign running on many local billboards showing a picture of a diamond ring, with the caption "Worth 100,000 'I Love You's". I forget if the ad was for De Beers, or one of the local stores/national jewelry chains, but I thought to myself, "Say, that's some pretty interesting math ( Read more... )

Ok, I don't know if anyone else's Christmahannakwanzikkah gift-giving group is like mine, but it seems like either 1. the people I buy gifts for over the holidays have either gotten progressively worse at telling me what they want, or at least dropping semi-subtle hints to at least point me in the right direction, or ( Read more... )

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I get assloads of spam in the course of most any given day. The subject lines of the spam are often quite entertaining. The spam generally falls into one of a few common categories ( Read more... )

Last night was my last official gig with Nebulous and it was a damned good show - I will have audio and pics soon. It felt great to go out on top. It was a good, energetic crowd, and I felt totally relaxed and loose on stage ( Read more... )