... has no penis!!!

I love my denomination.

Happy World Turtle Day!

I could swear I just heard a muzak version of the theme from the Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie (I mean the main theme, you know, that gallop-y sounding thing, not the Bryan Adams song), and it caused me to wonder why everybody's *seen* the Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie. I mean, it was pretty universally acknowledged as bad right when it came out ( Read more... )

Has anyone else noticed that yellow M&M's have gone from being a deep, comforting, school-bus yellow to a sort of day-glo canary?

I share a small, windowless, but nicely furnished office with the guy who's alphabetically next to me on the lecturers' roster. For the last week or so he's had sitting on his desk an otherwise unlabelled CD marked with a gray post-it note that reads "death ( Read more... )

It's pouring down rain, but the water main in my complex has apparently burst, and I have no running water in my apartment. Is rainwater bad for your scalp?

Do not use floral wire instead of picture wire to hang a mirror. Or anything else.

I'm learning a lot here in Knoxville.

advice from Sursamajor:

Never drive up a steep mountain in the dark, in a hailstorm with probable tornadoes, in a little tuna-can which Enterprise seems to think is a car. And especially don't do it while dangerously sleep-deprived. But if you ever do, be very, very happy you're still alive.

Also: never laugh while eating beets.

Today I learned all about potato guns. I think I will have to add them to my list of things that are inherently funny, like chickens, vikings, turduckin, and the word "defenestrate."

Anybody want to help me make a potato gun?

After the last film based on an Alan Moore book, I was hesitant to see V for Vendetta, but it gets my approval, in spite of Natalie Portman and her lips.  I might quibble with a couple of points, but on the whole, I thought they did a great job with a story which has become, frighteningly, more and more relevant.  Even though I didn't read it until ( Read more... )