Category: Life

A comparison of sizes of science fiction ships and stations.

Ahhh….

(Link seen on Ace of Spades.)

From a fundraising plea junk mail from the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program of the American Health Assistance Foundation, of whom I’ve never heard before and to whom I will never send any money whatsoever:

Major news in the research on Alzheimer’s:
Researchers funded by Alzheimer’s Disease Research including TWO Nobel prize winners–have made breakthrough discoveries that may signla the end of Alzheimer’s reign of terror!

Alzheimer’s reign of terror? Lord, love a duck, poorly written, poorly metaphored… I say we make it a trifecta by making it poorly funded, too.

Joaquin Phoenix had a brother, River Phoenix, who was also an actor.

Compare/contrast this with trivia questions ca 1990.

Crikes, I’ve got this mosquito bite on my neck like an inch from my jugular. You know that mosquito will be telling his friends about that bite, ad nauseum, for the rest of his life.

Probably a week tops, unless he tries that stunt again, in which case I’ll spill my own blood if needed to truncate his existence.

Two thoughts that struck me as amusing, but I’ll probably be the only one:

• Upon seeing the vanity license plate MO4 LL:

  We sure thought that “Alice” would make a credible candidate for president….

• Somehow, I think even Peter Scaffer fans think me crazy when I go to the ballpark and cheer for the Cardinals’ lead off hitter by chanting:

  Eck….Eck…..Eck….Eckstein.

Because these things bounce around my disparate thoughts during the course of the day. Instead of a billion dollar idea, I get these.

All is for the best in the best of possible worlds.

Which might be this one. Probably not.

(Inspired by this post by Pejman.)

Seems I am off the hook for some intemperate comment I might have made on my wife’s birthday as she indeed likes her new music production setup.

However, remember she has a music minor but is a developer by trade when she says:

Now if I can just find how to CODE notes instead of having to “record.”

Happy Birthday to Wil Wheaton, born on this date in 1972, and anyone else who might share this birthday.

I hope she likes what I got her enough to make up for that….

Dungeong and Dragons for Complete and Utter Idiots.

DID YOU KNOW?

Some people are green.
Look in mirror. Are you green? No?
Then kill all green people.

TIP! Green people flammable!

Just answering the question, “Why would someone wear a coat in July unless he or she was hiding Semtex lingerie?”

Where to put the books:

WHERE do you house 10,000 books? In an apartment with plenty of shelf space, of course.

So that’s what Thomas and Katherine Cole needed when they moved to New York.

Mr. Cole, 71, who retired five years ago as a classics professor at Yale University, likes working from home, which means having on hand the thousands of reference works he might need. (He is writing a literary study of Ovid.)

We can aspire to 10,000 volumes. We’ve got to be at several thousand now. Our next house will need a room dedicated to being the library. Probably not a finished room in the basement which might flood. You see, we’ve thought it over.

That’s right, I got my first L.L. Bean catalog today.

You know, it’s really got absolutely nothing to do with Rowan Atkinson. Now I, too, am privileged to share in that information with my other Casinoport, Missouri, brothers.

Brian’s office at night

Spoons sez:

DC fans are conservative, Marvel fans are liberal. Discuss.

I won’t rejoin that, although I encourage you to do so, gentle reader, with all the righteous anger my fellow Marvelites can muster.

I will admit something interesting: I am a Marvelite, and my beautiful wife is a DC chick.

I don’t know how our marriage works, but it does. And lest you wonder, my collection is larger than hers.

Apparently, our home is the air conditioning unit for the entire St. Louis area.

Whenever we turn the air conditioner on, the daily high temperatures drop. When the high temperatures drop, we turn off the air conditioner and open the windows….at which point the daily high temperatures rise…..