Tribbles Episode: "The Trouble With Tribbles" Description: The most insidious invaders ever to threaten the Enterprise, these fuzzy little low-budget infiltrators first win Lt. Uhura’s affections, prompting her to take one aboard. From there they sneak into the air vents, storm the bridge and drink Kirk’s coffee. Only one thing keeps them from taking over the Enterprise and from there, … Read More
They Have A Word For That
Via Neatorama, a list of foreign words for which there is no English counterpart: Kummerspeck (Germany): "Grief bacon" – the weight that you gain by overeating when you’re worried about something. Attaccabottoni (Italy): A "buttonholer" – someone who corners casual acquaintances or even complete strangers for the purpose of telling them their miserable life stories. Modré Pondeli (Czech): "Blue Monday" … Read More
Want A Good Cry?
Check out this video about "Animal Crossing". Just some background about "Animal Crossing" (so you can appreciate the video). It’s an online "community" game where players live out a separate life in an online village, with the goal of building and improving their house and being part of a make-believe community.
You’re Never Too Old To Learn To Tapdance
That’s a great bumper sticker. I should copyright it. Anyway, read about this man who celebrated his 75th birthday by tapping across the Golden Gate Bridge.
About Your Outgoing Message
Don’t tell me you’re not home and/or unavailable. I’ve already figured that out. My keen powers of deduction enable me to distinguish between a recording of you and… you know, you. Also, when you say you’re "unavailable", I take that to mean you are either on the toilet or having sex. And maybe I don’t want that mental image, thank … Read More
The Daily Show Writers On The Strike
Gee, these guys should get together and write a daily fake news show on air on someplace llike Comedy Central. Actually, they make some good points.
In Which I Browbeat One Of My Favorite People
Seriously, Em? 133 words in the first half of the month? UPDATE: Emily responds: First of all, I happen to be up to nine hundred words now. Second, the prize isn’t the completion, it’s the journey. Third, just because you got overlooked by People Magazine again this year doesn’t mean you need to take it out on poor starving novel … Read More
Not The Word I Would Use
From California: Deborah Thompson told authorities afterward that she drank a bottle of whiskey before she wandered to the railroad tracks and tried to wave the train to a stop. When asked why, she told Yuba County sheriff’s deputies she was just being silly. "Silly". Hmmm… Instead, the train hit her and knocked her 20 to 30 yards. Thompson suffered … Read More
“Well, You Know Me. I Get To Thinking…”
Seems an awful waste: Out-of-towners are traveling to New York City with the specific aim of killing themselves in a phenomenon researchers are calling "suicide tourism," a Manhattan public health expert reported Monday. Just as people travel to specific cities for sightseeing or to remote regions of the world for complex, but low-cost surgeries, others are seeing New York City … Read More
Atomic Theory And Philosophy For Kids
Some questions just can’t be answered: So, last night, we’re up in her bed, I’m reading A Bunny for All Seasons to her. She says to me, "Daddy, how do you know that when you shut the book the pictures don’t move all around and run around when you shut the book?" …"Do you want the long answer or the … Read More
The Skipping Crowd
I didn’t see the Patriots-Colts game this weekend, but aside from it not being a Patriots blowout, there was another strange anomoly. Check out this YouTube video, and in particular the noise of the crowd: What’s that about? This: In the past, teams that have visited the RCA Dome have questioned whether the Colts pipe in artificial crowd noise in … Read More
Ten Worst Album Covers Of All Time (And The Best One Of All Time)
From Mental Floss: 10. Ken: By Request OnlyI can assure you, Ken, we have only one request. 9. Something Special from JeffPoor Jeff looks like death warmed over, from his Herman Munster tan to that funeral director suit. I just hope the “something special” he’s got for us doesn’t involve that hook. (Or perhaps that’s his instrument. After all, Radiohead … Read More
Headlines That Give Me Pause
US Seeks to Remove Pirates From Ships Aye, matey! But not without a hearty fight, arrrrrr….. Man with beer takes hearse to go fishing "Drunk man" maybe? The whole "with beer" thing throws me…. Police seek Nebraska teacher, 25, and 13-year-old boy Yup. Another naughty (female) schoolteacher. ‘Goat sucker’ actually a hairless coyote Either way, I don’t really want to … Read More