Growth of the Garlic My garlic is growing. This realization was more disconcerting than I would have thought. I realize now how much I like to think of my food as being dead ... or not living in the first place ... but certainly not in a state of growth. This reminds me of something Penn
Forced through a fine mesh screen Futurama is awesome. Zapp is a ridiculous captain in their military. They're going to war on some distant planet. He preps the crew: Men, you're lucky men. Soon you'll all be fighting for your planet. Many of you will be dying for your planet.
There like a god he sits and takes his wine I purchased The Odyssey late Friday night, and finished it late Monday night. I know now that I fully lack the ability to temper my reading when important work remains to be done; especially when, for like two hundred pages, you think that you're just on the verge
IHOP ... to the bathroom, quickly I went to IHOP the other day. That was the first mistake. I was there with three other people. Two of these three other people ordered All You Can Eat pancakes. I suggested that All You Can Eat, here at IHOP, for anyone with an acceptable sense of taste, was
Olympic Half-Time Show This is the Type A, literal, engineer in me talking when I say: figuring skating is nothing more than the half-time show of the Olympics. Am I allowed to say "Olypmics"? I seem to recall hearing that one had to license the use of that word. Hmm. Anyway.
My New Dig This is neither witty nor humorous. Pictures of my new place: - http://stygian.net/pictures/Lochshire/
Rednecks ... Hopefully Endangered, Soon I have a theory ... that rednecks are becoming increasingly aggressive as "man" is infringing on their natural habitat ... tearing down forests to build communities and roads and shopping centers. Just like deer, bear, etc. There's a whole, huge, elongated story and police report that go with
Self-Referential Signs This ... this is just hysterical. A self-referential sign over an escalator, warning you not to bump your head on ... it. And that reminded me of another favorite of mine ... the "this-sign-has-sharp-edges" sign. And entirely unrelated, I read an article (Everything you ever wanted to know about C types
Here's One for the SAT's While driving home from a New Year's party around 1am, and seeing the lines of cops perched at each exit along the interstate, the following came to mind: Black Friday [1] is to Retailers as ________ is to Cops. And of course the answer is New Year's.