Thursday, May 31, 2007

Scripps National Spelling Bee

Take your own!

Spell the following words:


desiccate
ecstasy
millennium
dumbbell
supersede
accidentally
peddler
minuscule
coolly
accommodate
irresistible
liaison
harass
definitely
occurrence
embarrass
cemetery
inoculate
sacrilegious
weird

Friday, May 25, 2007

A font of wisdom

Kerry, me too. I got pica issues. My are of the "serif v non-serif font for typing my course outline" variety

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

5 popular things I immediately disliked and have never given a try

And don't think I ever will

1. American Idol
2. Melrose Place
3. Pilates (The name is an insurmountable obstacle... let's not go there)
4. Pearl Jam
5. Clowns and Mimes

Actually, I am fairly certain that mimes are deeply unpopular...

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Hey Trav: Modern medicine may have saved Lincoln

The Baltimore Sun reports that Modern medicine may have saved Lincoln if he had been transported to Baltimore via medivac.

Judging from the diagram. Survivor Lincoln's behavior might have been radically different, like the other famous 19th Century story -- Phineas Gage

Monday, May 14, 2007

Cerebro purchases Chrysler

New chairperson, Bastion, promises to bring an era of peace for all mankind by introducing the Dodge Sentinel: a family size-sedan equipped with mutant tracking and destroying technology.

Dr. Henry McCoy has pledged to work with regulators to ensure that the new vehicles include everything except for the last two features. "We think that the American consumer would just prefer something like OnStar"

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Ensign, prepare an away team to beam down to the Andes mountains

Stardate: -70422.62 Scot's ashes are lost in the Andes Mountains rather than trapped in a teleporter signal loop inside the dyson sphere. We detected a mysterious energy signature before losing contact. Red shirt ensigns are reporting to transported three.

Saturday, May 05, 2007

Dilber - May 5, 2007

Dilbert.com - E-mail This Strip

The character who looks liks Scott Adams is resigning to draw Dilbert and is telling the pointy haired boss "Actually, it's not so much a resignation letter as it is a drawing of your body with a manure head."


see also George Grosz "Stützen der Gesellschaft" (1926).
"Too late or still too soon too soon to make lots of bad love and there's no time for sorrow. Run around, run around with a hole in your head 'til tomorrow."
-----They Might Be Giants