February 2011
2 posts
“Here’s a statistic that might startle you: right now, Waste Management produces...”
– This is what it takes; finding ways to create economic value from the waste we produce.
Waste Management: There’s gold in that municipal waste - SmartPlanet
Me: So, Matthew, are you going to get one of those electric motorcycles.
Matthew: Uh, no.
Me: (fake excitement) But they're quiet!
Matthew: So is a bucket of dead cats, but I don't want one of those either.
December 2010
1 post
Russia eyes nuclear-powered spaceships | TG Daily →
Heinlein’s nuclear powered space ships are finally becoming a reality.
November 2010
6 posts
“Shannon: His web page looks like the ’90s vomited all over it.”
Electric brain stimulation may improve math skills... →
You know, I’d rather have one of these than an IPad.
Scientists make blood from human skin cells -... →
Stem cells aren’t the only ones that can be used to create other kinds of cells. I’m interested that a virus is a part of the process. If you look at the successes being made now in the medical sciences, it’s easy to believe that we’re on the verge of real, genuine life extension. What would we do with a lifespan counted in centuries instead of decades?
October 2010
1 post
May 2009
4 posts
Valerie: I'm trying to curse less around the kids.
Matt: Less than what, a drunken sailor?
Valerie: (laughs) Basically!
Matt: I need you to run me home; we've got time, don't we?
Fonda: Better watch it, your boss is sitting right here.
Matt: You've ridden with Caitlin; we'll be back five minutes ago.
Caitlin: Hey! Why was I so nice as to drive this week, after driving last week?
Me: Blue shift withdrawal symptoms?
Caitlin: Tell me again why I put up with this abuse?
Me: Stockholm syndrome?
“Shane: $5 for a jumbo; I’ll take that deal!”
April 2009
1 post
Matt: Look at these ass-hats.
Shane: There's a lot of those on campus.
Thomas: You'd think we had an ass-haberdashery here or something.
Jered: I majored in ass-haberdashery, with a minor in ass-accessorizing.
March 2009
1 post
Matt: I can feel my IQ dropping. It tingles...
January 2009
1 post
Code Red →
PMSBuddy.com now has 100,000 men who have signed up for e-mail alerts when their wives/girlfriends are about to enter “code red” (accompanied by appropriate warnings of the “threat level,” at 1, 2, 3, or 4). News.com.au (Sydney)
October 2008
1 post
University researchers developing cancer-fighting... →
Finally some reasearch that has real value.
September 2008
4 posts
Drunken man climbing over a fence slips and is... →
Bonus. He bent the spike.
Police Release Sketch of Man Who Allegedly... →
You’ve got to see this sketch.
SimplyNoise.com - The best free white noise... →
For when you just absolutely must drown out the insipid complaining from the next cubicle…
Cows have magnetic sense, Google Earth images... →
How does it even occur to someone to do this?
July 2008
2 posts
Chunky Monkeys →
Just… eewww.
Teen drives off top of Pikes Peak into 1000 foot... →
I can’t tell if this boy’s luck is phenomenally good or phenomenally bad.
June 2008
3 posts
Jered: I have an acronym for the new helpdesk I wanted to share...
Me: ?
Jered: Work ORder Management System (WORMS)
Me: LOL. How about Customer Request Access Portal?
Jered: That is one I like!
StatusWiz - A Project Management Tool →
This looks like a great free application to manage projects and tasks for an individual or small group. I wish it had been around a couple of years ago - could have saved myself some effort trying to do the same sort of thing.
May 2008
16 posts
Jered: "I just need more power..."
Me: "We need to get a quote to purchase more dilithium crystals, Jim."
“Do I think our children are getting dumber? Short answer, yes. Long answer, yes...”
– ‘Choking Game’ Takes a Surprisingly Dark Turn | Cracked.com
Boy Scout returns wallet with $800 →
See? There’s hope for the world yet.
Bacon with benefits →
Bacon. Yum. And now, it can be good for you too!
Matt: So I met her parents last night. Her mom was interesting.
Jered: Did she say "You're pretty tall for a boy my daughter's age?"
Matt: Just for that, I'm not going to tell you any more.
Me: (Helpless laughter.)
3 accused of using Humble corpse's head to smoke... →
I thought I was pretty jaded, but I’m still a little shocked.
Matt: If only my reality lived up to the legend.
Me: That's what she said.
Matt: Jerk.
ShieldBreaker - Chapter 7 →
Chapter 7 of the ShieldBreaker novel. Check out the prologue to this novel in the Return of the Sword anthology.
Terry: I'm not sure what she's doing; that data's all maxed out.
Matt: Just like your pants.
Stop Alien Abductions →
DIY instructions for making a helmet to prevent your thoughts from being read by aliens, which apparently is what makes you an attractive target for abduction. And it makes a real fashion statement too!
“The platypus is mother nature’s way of saying, ‘I made this thing...”
– The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You | Cracked.com
Google: How to Access Filter by Date Dropdown Box... →
Instead of most popular searches for all time, get just the ones for today.
A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart →
Finally, someone who is able to express in cogent and surprisingly easy to read ways that odd sense of creativity and beauty that has always captured and kept some of us under the spell of mathematics. It is the art of it; the potential of a blank canvas and a bunch of paint tubes pales in comparison to the limitless opportunities presented by a blank sheet of paper and a theorem. Anyone who has...
Me: (Singing Black-eyed Peas badly) Mix your milk with my cocoa puff, milky, milky, riiiight.
Tammy: (Wryly) In your case, it's more like Kix.
Me: Tammy says you can just give her the girl's phone number and she'll get the juicy tidbits directly.
Matt: Tell your wife she shouldn't be all potted up at home.
April 2008
24 posts
twistori →
It’s frightening how much I can get sucked into watching the scroll of twitter posts containing a single word. The contrasts between posts containing the same word (love, hate, think, believe, feel, or wish) somehow highten the sense of the humans behind the words.
Matt: Feels like the best shave of my life this morning.
Me: Let me write that down. No, that looks as weird on paper as it sounded in my head.
AAUUGH!
Attempting to add comments I had to switch to custom html, and Tumblr reset all my colors to the defaults! AAUUGH!
ShieldBreaker - Chapter 6 →
Chapter 6 of the ShieldBreaker novel. Check out the prologue to this novel in the Return of the Sword anthology.
Wis. police chief tickets himself $235 - Weird... →
I admire this guy. That’s principle at work; to just quietly do what you know is right, when you don’t have to, and to not make a fuss about it.