I like the fairly comprehensive nature of the experiments.
Nailing Jello to the wall
April 23rd, 2009Worried about your high school reunion?
April 23rd, 2009Some people deal with the worry by deciding not to go. Some begin exercise programs to lose weight and shape up. This is the first time I can remember hearing of someone who hired a stripper to impersonate her and sent along a film crew.
Via the Jammy-wearing fool.
I wish I had a photo
April 23rd, 2009I usually have my camera with me, but last night, I didn’t. I carry the camera in a belt pouch at my left hip, and it wasn’t appropriate with the outfit I was wearing. I was driving at the time, anyway, so it would have been difficult to take a good photo, even if someone else had been the driver.
Imagine, if you will, your generic compact car, colored dark brown where the rust hadn’t eaten through the body, with a home-made, two-level wooden spoiler on the trunk lid.
I say “two-level,” rather than “two-airfoil,” because there was no airfoil cross-section to them; they were just flat pieces of 1×12. It didn’t look to me that the vehicle could go fast enough for them to provide any effect, either.
I never saw that movie …
April 16th, 2009… but it turns out that Snakes on a Plane anticipated reality.
A Tree Grows in Sidorkin
April 16th, 2009When I was a child, I heard playground tales that swallowing apple or orange seeds would cause a tree to grow in your stomach. After a while, I realized that those tales weren’t true.
Happy Easter
April 12th, 2009
Will the Easter Bilby come to your house?
April 11th, 2009It seems unlikely. Even if you’re only considering chocolate.
Small-town America
April 11th, 2009Three quick items:
1) The town of Winfield, Missouri elected Henry Stonebraker to a fourth term as mayor – several weeks after his death. I wonder if he ran unopposed. If not, what does that say about his opponent?
2) In Lander, Wyoming, there is a parking lot on the west end of town where you can find the following three businesses: a pet boarding/grooming establishment, an animal hospital, and a taxidermy studio. I guess if the groomer slips with the shears, and the vet can’t save it, you don’t have to go far to find someone who can help you keep your pet around.
3) Buford, Wyoming, is probably the smallest incorporated town in the US. It used to be the county seat for Laramie county, but people moved away.
Miscellany
April 8th, 2009An assortment of links I’ve had hanging around and need to either use or forget:
Moe Lane thinks you must have a vampire problem if you have to deny that you have one.
Sexy maids. Not just for Halloween anymore (in Canada, anyway).
A couple of good cooking blogs are The Crepes of Wrath (love the name) and The Pioneer Woman.
Ruminations on work by Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs. I could probably have embedded the video here, but American Digest is worth the visit, anyway.
Some classic short stories and not-necessarily-classic music.
Bob Delaney’s Science Software.
Building a computerized security system? You may want one of these.
The Grand List of Console Role-Playing Game Cliches.
Need to generate a palette for a website?
Latin Quotes and Sayings (watch out for popups – Firefox blocks ’em for me, but lets me know they’re there).
Wanna see how you do solving math problems with a computer? Go here.
You may want to keep this in mind for the next Talk Like A Pirate Day.
And finally, somebody who’s been having fun with newspaper classified advertisements:
Update: One more story. Ladies, if you want to pick up a guy, don’t just hint about it. Come out and tell him directly. Reminds me of a button I used to have, which read, “Don’t just flirt, hit me with a clue-by-four.” I don’t know where that one disappeared to. I can’t find the one that reads, “Cooking is great – it’s a wonderful excuse to play with knives and fire,” either.
New advances in wireless coverage technology
April 1st, 2009Via Bits and Pieces.