I’ve plugged the science-fiction short story podcast Escape Pod before, but this week’s episode was particularly good, in my opinion.
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Motivation
Recently I alluded to my flittering attention span when it comes to hobbies. I’ll pick something up and be, like, totally into it for a while and then it fades to a second tier status. I’ve made inroads in the past few years to cut back on this tendency, attempting to set aside those things …
Midwest Teen Sex Show
If you are not aware of the phenomenon that is the Midwest Teen Sex Show, you should go check it out at Midwestteensexshow.com. It is a fantastically entertaining videocast focused on issues of teen sexuality and sex education. Even if you are not the intended audience, I guarantee you will be entertained, or your money …
Modern Art
With the advent of TiVo, marketeers are forced to expand their lexicon to get people to see their ads. This week, watching “Life” on NBC, we were annoyingly bombarded with product placement advertisements that ate up a good 5 to 6 minutes of the show. Some people see commercials as a necessary evil on television. …
Police Shut down I-75
Yesterday, Jenn was caught in a traffic jam caused by the Police shutting down I-75 soutbound to look for a bank robber. Apparently, the bank that was robbed slipped a tracking device into the money that was stolen, allowing the police to locate the perpetrator’s position on I-75. Unfortunately, despite the heartache and congestion caused …
Sick
Today I’m home sick. Bleah. You might think that this would let me catch up on blogging. We’ll have to see about that. Unfortunately, where I really want to be is at work, ’cause I have stuff to do, and limited time in which to do it. I find this unfortunately hard-and-fast hitting cold very …
People are Dumb Everywhere
MarkCC has a posting linked to another posting about how the British aren’t teaching the itegersintegers very well. Some subset of british citizens are unaware that -10 is lower than -2. Go, check it out, especially the quote.
Favorite Photo of the Week
This is an image of a pumpkin, post lobotomy.
Meme Me Baby One More Time
Through channels, I learned of an interesting meme. Use google image search to run your name and blog about the one that pops up. Unfortunately, when you have a thorough flickr presence and an unusual last name, you end up having all of your own images at the top of the list. I find it …
God Hates Fred Phelps
If you aren’t familiar with the actions of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church, go look it up in wikipedia. I won’t link here. To summarize, they feel that America is too tolerant of homosexuality, and everything bad that has happened in the past twenty years is the punishment of god for that tolerance: …