Humor
I was relaxing out back, watching fireflies flash, when a buddy, dad to boy and girl 11 year old twins, called to catch up with news and relate a funny (still unfinished) story.
Growing crankier by the weekend with trespassers holding court on the porch steps and sneaking around bushes on the property (to pee or worse) after bar-closing-time, he and the kids opted to make fun of this annoyance and concocted a silly yet safe deterrence plan.
In Mom's large mixing bowls, they stirred hefty batches of harmless, variously food-colored cornstarch and water gunk. Then, on Friday night,…
Water Bomb Terror Threat
I just had to share this:
The H2O-bomb has been developed by the radical New Age group, The Axis of Aquarius.
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/04/20/new-age-terrorists-develop-homeopa...
Chomskybot v Baseballbot
The unsleeping Chomskybot stands ready to write a paragraph on linguistics at any time, just for you.
Let us continue to suppose that the fundamental error of regarding functional notions as categorial is rather different from the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol. For one thing, the appearance of parasitic gaps in domains relatively inaccessible to ordinary extraction cannot be arbitrary in the strong generative capacity of the theory. If the position of the trace in (99c) were only relatively inaccessible to…
A Message From Nigeria Ghana.
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Attn: [ insert name from recently purchased list of 10,000,000 email addresses ],
According to our records here, A deposit was made in our bank here in Ghana,You are meant to be the rightful fraud victim beneficiary of the deposited amount of$1,260,341.00(USD) which includes accrued interest over the period ofdeposit.
You are required by the funds investigation Unit of the Barclays Bank Ghanato immediately confirm to this email,…
antunes |
This interlude's theme is 'cynicism'. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal covers prehistoric skeptics:
and modern-day realism:
while Surviving the World looks deeply at the joy in academia:
and the use of substance abuse in science:
And yet, in all this, there can be hope in the simple pleasures of life. Such as getting off this planet, Dresden Codak style:Why not indeed. Have a nice weekend!
Alex
Tuesdays at The Satellite Diaries and Friday at The Daytime Astronomer (twitter @skyday)
A Glossary of Alternative Reality #1
If you analyse deliberate disinformation deeply - and manage to retain your sanity - you tend to observe some fascinating nuances and psychological tricks.
A bonus in such analyses is the discovery of things which - expressed in deliberately non-scientific terms - are quite amusing.
In an alternate reality, you might find definitions like mine in a dictionary or glossary.
_______________________________________________________Speed camera A scientific instrument for detecting the difference between
…
I? Robot?
Okay, so I got the logicman handle for being a bit like Mr. Spock.
But I am not a robot.
I used to get called professor at school because I was so absent-minded.
But I am not an absent-minded robot.
So why does Google News offer me this advice?
Hank |
I have nothing against BP. BP was our biggest advertiser last year. I think BP is generally one oil company that generally cares about the future of energy and reasonable use of the planet's resources.
But it must be at the VP level and down that people have a clue. Because at the top they are Klondike Kops.
BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg, not learning any lesson at all from Tony ("I want my life back") Hayward's many public relations misfires, decided to rescue his company's reputation by responding to a reporter about President Obama's comments that BP should "keep in…
Yes, of course!
Case in point, Dr. Twittenheimer, whose secret identity I won't reveal about myself.
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1. It's probably a good thing Avogadro wasn't around after the telephone was invented. I bet he'd get real sick of this...
2. Also see: Josh Witten.
3. Seriously, who f'ing cares??
4. Too bad BP couldn't get in on this action.
5. If the Pussycat Dolls had been big in Quasimodo's time, maybe he would have bagged Esmeralda...