Not me!

2007-11-02

Ugh, i wanna be a snowflake

(also not me, though i met the guy at a gaming convention in Calgary once)

A quote

2007-10-12

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
– Napoleon

An example of a more advanced civilization than ours:

National Public Toilet Map (Australia)

Cool, if i can make another of these entries at last, i must be getting back into the swing of blogging.
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Heavy Economics

2007-08-23

On the Efficiency of AC/DC: Bon Scott vs. Brian Johnson

(pdf)
(via Metafilter)

That’s Liz as in Liz Phair.

http://www.visi.com/~lazlo/liz/article.html#kids

BRANDY [Age 10]: I am…Brandy…Are you really famous?
LIZ PHAIR [Age 27]: I’m moderately famous. I’m somewhere-like, if you
picture it as constellations in the sky-you know there’s the Big Dipper
and the Little Dipper. I’m sort of like that, what is that “W” one?
Cassiopeia.

[…]

LAUREN: What was the meanest thing you ever did to a Barbie?
LP: [Laughs] I took Ken away. I don’t know, let’s see, I took their
heads off. How did you know I had Barbies? That just goes assumed?
IZZY: To tell you the truth, we’re psychic.

[…]

IZZY: Did you meet any actors like, um…Keanu Reeves?
LP: No but my friend did. She said he was an airhead.

[…]

DASHA: Can you sing to us?
LP: Let’s see…Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener…

Wack “picture”

2007-06-06

The Zoomquilt

You’ll just have to look at it, i can’t really give a descriptive sample.

Saint Fred

2007-06-01

15 Reasons Mister Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever

Amazingly, within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”

THE FIFTY-NINE-STORY CRISIS

What’s an engineer’s worst nightmare? To realize that the supports he designed for a skyscraper like Citicorp Center are flawed–and hurricane season is approaching.

So he fixed it.

globeandmail.com: School shootings

By the way, the 800,000 tutsi and hutu victims of the genocide in Rwanda were killed primarily with knives and machetes. And if you want to kill a lot of people but don’t have a gun, there are many other ways to do it: derail a train, start a fire, drive a pickup truck into a school yard or shopping concourse, make a bomb. So all that happens is that the cause of the murder changes.