Well, yesterday it was a pizza-sized hole. Today, it’s a miscue from another AJC writer, Phil Kloer. I was looking at the movie review for Ice Age II and read this: Scrat is the name of the adorable little prehistoric squirrel-thingie in the 2002 movie “Ice Age,” whose wordless, fruitless pursuit of a single acorn …
Monthly Archives: March 2006
How deep is that hole?
Quoting from the opening sentence of an article in this morning’s AJC by Dave Hirschman. Hip-deep in a pizza-sized hole, electrician Ken Hunter crimps some of the hundreds of miles of wiring that soon will illuminate the $1.28 billion fifth runway at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. How deep is a pizza-sized hole? Pesonally, I’ve never had …
Lefties are more Dangerous!
In this month’s Scientific American, they have a short blurb at the front speaking about lateralization of animals, which in humans manifests as right or left handedness. Here’s the link. I have no idea how long it will work, so good luck. The studies that it was covering were trying to determine why animals developed …
Brooklyn Bridge: Bastion of Bomb-fearers
Little did we know but all we had to do in case of nuclear attack was go to the Brooklyn Bridge for supplies. I like this quote: “Also, there were cans of high-calorie crackers with instructions to consume 10,000 calories a day per person.” That’s a lot of crackers.
Blogoshpere: The Great Experiment
Free speech is a wonderful thing; I fully support it. I think Fred Phelps is currently the USA’s biggest penis-head, but I support his right to preach his message of hate. The blogosphere has increased everyone’s ability to get their message out there, and a lot of people certainly have. For example! This person has …
Crazy stuff you learn by surfing
Through a long and tortuous chain of links and lookups1, I came upon an interesting wikipedia entry: Flag of Convenience. Did you know that you can register a ship (an ocean-going SHIP!) in Mongolia! You can have a ship sailing around the world, carrying cargo, with a large name on the back (say) Poseidon, out …
Happy Equinox!
Five days ago we celebrated the Ides of March. Today we get to celebrate the our free annual trip around the sun! I like the solstices and equinoxes (equinoxae? equinices?) because no one has latched onto them like the Hallmark Holiday (Valentines Day) or Halloween. At 18:25 UTC (13:25 EST), we’ll be crossing the celestial …
"V for Vendetta"
I find it dissapointing that so many movie reviewers are poo-poohing this movie. I saw it and I liked it! Of course, given the nature of the previews, you might expect (understandably) that it’s an action film, which it is not. And, you might expect that because of the Wachowski brothers’ involvement that it would …
First Round Pain!
Well, so much for me picking Iowa to win this years NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. [sigh] I was doing well first round right up to that moment. All of my first round picks that had not made it to second round were slated to lose there anyhow, so I still had plenty of opportunity to …
Drug of Choice
You know you drink too much coffee when, upon arriving at work and discovering no coffee, you jitter while it brews and then—almost orgasmically—sigh with the first sip. I need to detoxify.