Instead of writing my monograph, or cleaning the toilets, or staring at the rainfall, I watched 5000 blow-up dolls get loaded into the Rose Bowl. Link from BoingBoing
Category Archives: Random
Where's Zoolander?
A new spokesperson steps forth! Check out Go Fug Yourself.
Cthulu for your Car
It’s a night for surfing around. Here is a site which lists a Cthulu antenna ball for your car. Intersting in and of itself, but take a look at this close up picture of a bunch of them together. Do you see what I see? I see a cat toy in the background! I imagine …
ACLU Discussed to Death!
If you are not a reader of The Bad Astronomy Blog, I’ll point you to a recent post which has received a lot of comments. Quite interesting reading, from low to high brow.
Learn to Speak!
This link takes you to a site with a good film about a boy learning to talk. Once you’ve entered, click on Le Film and enjoy!
"You gave me an evil hand."
[Spoilers] My wife and I have been watching Angel from the beginning over the last couple months. We’re about two thirds of the way through season two at the moment and we just watched an episode that replaced a previous one as my favorite. Previously (and you can stop reading this now if you’re not …
"Take my viola. Please!"
The NY Times, in their emailed morning news articles, had the story of a pair of players in a former string Quartet who are being forced to give up their instruments to settle a bankruptcy debt. They declared bankruptcy after they lost a legal battle against a former quartet member. Their instruments (and bows) are …
$870,000.00
For the last few months, a developer has been bulding a twelve-home subdivision down the road a bit. They have signs up advertising them for “from the high 700’s” and we’d been meaning to mosey down and take a tour, just to see what a house of that price looks like. Very impressive, although it’s …
The Joys!
The Joys of Home Ownership. I think this may become a recurring series. Today’s fun fiasco was the cause of much rejoicing, let me tell you. Item A: Whoever designed our bathroom floor was a foolish person. They did not understand the cardinal rule of hydrology: “Water flows downhill.” If/When we redesign our bathroom, we …
LOST is Crap, Tripe, Shit
You will note from my earlier post about Lost of one week ago that I was not particularly happy with the second episode of this Lost season. J. J. Abrams has proved to me, like he did with Alias, that he can take a good thing and absolutely ruin it. The first season of Lost …