The Money Hole- Is It Time?
So close as to be scary-
In The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?
via Neptunus Lex
November 14, 2008
October 27, 2008
Pithy
"The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war."- Edward Abbey
Van der Leun is teh funny...
October 17, 2008
second test
second test
September 19, 2008
Maybe it would work...
From Jim Treacher, a thought experiment-
A scene from Obama's first term
Obama: The United States demands that you cease all efforts to manufacture nuclear weaponry.*
Ahmadinejad: No way, Yankee dog. Death to America!
[Pause]
O: Huh. Okay, I get it.
A: ...what?
O: No, no, I get it.
A: Get what? All I said was "Death to America."
O: Don't worry about it, man. That's just the way it is, I get it.
A: The way what is? Seriously, I don't understand. Is it because I hate America? I didn't think you people had a prob--
O: "You people!"
A: No, wait.
O: "You people." That's just great.
Go here for the whole thing. Made me laugh, anyway.
Avast, maties!
It's Talk Like a Pirate Day!
July 30, 2008
Hot Dog(s)!
via the Perfessor
July 25, 2008
A fine rant
The best brush-off evah-
A quick note to anyone who has got it in their mind to send me bitchy e-mail: My tolerance for said e-mail appears to be very short these days, so do me the favor of front-loading whatever relevant thing you have to say, because if you don't, it's likely that I won't get to it because I've stopped reading before you've made your point.
This comes in the wake of having received a ten or twelve paragraph e-mail by one of those nutbag childfree folks. As most of you know, I enjoy getting hateful mail from psychotic people, because usually nothing perks up the day like invective hurled at you by someone you don't know. But this time around, I just wasn't into it. The first paragraph just wasn't there, you know? It was clear that this woman was yet another of those people incensed that the world would not give her love and chocolates just because she's decided to make her inchoate loathing of children a cornerstone of her life. And really, I've been down this aisle and I've checked out all the specials. The prospect of wading through yet another of these formless rants just to be polite filled my brain with a lassitude the consistency of heavy molasses prior to a February thaw.
So I didn't bother. Instead, I wrote to my correspondent:
I'm sorry, I lost interest in your message after the first paragraph and couldn't be bothered to finish it. No doubt it was very clever and devastating and if it makes you feel good, please consider me abashed or chagrined or whatever it was that you intended me to feel after reading your brilliant, scintillating words. In the meantime, allow me to congratulate you in your decision not to breed, as clearly a person of your qualities represents a full stop on the genetic paragraph; the evolution of your line need go no further.
Please feel free to respond, whereupon I'll be happy to ignore you again in greater detail.
Bye, now.
It gets better, read it all. The fun continues in the comments-
It wasn't a polite request, it you telling me what to do on my own site, and not many people use the phrase "kindly avoid [insert thing here]" in a polite manner. My response in such cases is almost always "fuck you, I'll do as I please." When you want to make a polite request, please try to actually phrase it politely and not imperatively. You'll notice a difference in the response.
As for the particular phrasing, your choice to interpret it in a particular way does not oblige me to care, or retract.
Why people would take on a professional wordsmith on his own blog is an inchoate mystery to me.
May 16, 2008
John McClane for President!
May 12, 2008
Spell Check Blues
'Spell Checker Blues'
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.Anon
via Protein Wisdom. Too true.
May 07, 2008
McCain throws down
April 28, 2008
Zombies
62%
Hmm, looks like I might not last all that long...
April 03, 2008
So am I a moron for sure now?
17
I feel guilty just reading it, and I put it up for ya'll to see. Pathetic.
April 02, 2008
Issac Bickerstaff
Possibly the best April Fool's Day joke ever perpetrated- and almost assuredly the cruelest.
February 01, 2008
So true
January 18, 2008
Morning giggle
From NRO:
"Frisbeetarianism (n.): The belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there."
December 27, 2007
yes I'm a geek
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November 07, 2007
Muttonhead Quail Movement
The Muttonhead Quail Movement:
"[P]ossibly the most unfortunate spell-check blunder I've ever seen," reports a Reuters editor. The error: A line in a May 14, 2007 Reuters story about Pakistan, "The opposition blames the government and the pro-government Muttonhead Quail Movement (MQM), which runs Karachi, for the violence." In reality, "MQM does not stand for Muttonhead Quail Movement, but Muttahida Quami Movement."
October 31, 2007
Hallowe'en fun
Over at buzz.mn, I found a little bit of seasonal humor:
My Dad grew up in Northern Wisconsin, and the traditional Halloween prank was to tip over outhouses. Well, his uncle Brian decided that he would pull his own prank so he moved his outhouse 2 feet forward and sat in his dark house and waited for someone to fall in. He heard the yell, and then heard arguing about not letting the guy into the car, so the unlucky prankster had to ride in the trunk down to the St. Croix river and jump in before they would let him into the car with the heater on to get warm.
September 04, 2007
Ahh, kids today
Restores my faith in young folk, yes it does.
Hoist one to Ace
May 17, 2007
Can't touch This
Quoting the email:
My husband’s office building is located on government street downtown and has the mirrored glass on the exterior. People on the street cannot see into his office, they just see a reflection. However those in the office can see everything happening outside.
There is a man who regularly comes up to the building and likes to dance and check out his reflection. Yesterday they caught his performance on tape.
Check it out here. Too funny.
September 06, 2006
This could move me to the Dark Side
August 31, 2006
Stupendous Boy
In re the previous post, if we're all doomed, then it wouldn't hurt to look at this. Warning, very NSFW, and if you're easily offended you probably shouldn't go there. If you're warped and perverted and read comics as a kid (and anime now, not that that's related) then by all means have at it.
thanks to AndrewR
April 30, 2006
My new job?
Maybe I should apply here? Thanks, Samizdata.
April 16, 2006
March 24, 2006
Never lay off actors
A Friday morning geek moment
March 10, 2006
Heh
I love this country
