11-28-08

Filet mignon comes from a cow's back.

11-27-08

So I finally played the Wii today. I guess it's fine for stupid "games" like Wii Fit, but for anyone who wants to play an actual, you know, game, it blows. I played the new Smash Brothers and, with the Wii controller, it was worse than the N64 version.

11-26-08

"A desire not to acknowledge depression in ourselves or those close to us -- better known these days as denial, is such a strong urge that plenty of people prefer to think that until you are actually flying out of a window, you don't have a problem."

-- Elizabeth Wurtzel

11-25-08

Order of the Stick. Finally, a D&D comic that's actually good.

11-24-08

The founder of Craigslist was a comp sci major at Case.

11-23-08

Breast implants sink.

11-22-08

Paul had an awesome party at his apartment tonight. I got to play Caylus, Puerto Rico, Magic, and Rock Band 2, all in the same evening!

11-21-08

"I took my husband's i-phone and found a raunchy picture of him attached to an e-mail to a woman ... When I approached him about this (I think that he is cheating on me) he admitted that he took the picture but says that he never sent it to anyone. He claims that ... it is an i-phone glitch: that photos sometimes automatically attach themselves to an e-mail address and appear in the sent folder, even though no e-mail was ever sent. Has anyone ever heard of this happening?"

From the Apple support forum. Read the expert replies here.

11-20-08

Hawaii Chair.

11-19-08

Today is World Toilet Day. According to the World Toilet Organization, anyway.

"Toilets deserve better social status."

11-18-08

Last night, some guy parked his car across the street, shot his 10 year-old kid and then shot himself.

11-17-08

One of my friends is trying to start a revolutionary movement.

11-16-08

The bird that hit Fabio in the face was stuffed and sold on Ebay.

11-15-08

Door-to-door meat salesmen.

11-14-08

Smokers lose their taste buds.

11-13-08

Dogs can be used to hunt for truffles. They're better than pigs, because dogs don't try to eat truffles when they find them.

11-12-08

Some schools now consider "F" a swear word.

11-11-08

1 in 3 children in America are overweight. What's even more sad is that the Cookie Monster now eats vegetables and says that "cookies are a sometimes food."

11-10-08

The plural of "eye" and "cow" used to be "eyn" and "kine." "Eyes" and "cows" were wrong words, like foots and oxes.

11-9-08

"You can't fight ideas with bullets."

-- Deus Ex

11-8-08

In case you missed it, Fallout 3 is amazing. Very different from the first two, but a brilliant game in its own right.

11-7-08

"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses."

-- Carl Sagan

11-6-08

Q-tips push wax deeper into the ear -- much more wax than they get out. In fact, q-tip packages say nothing whatsoever about earwax removal; they refer to the tips as "applicators," intended for rubbing stuff on. Q-tips do happen to fit in ears, which somehow led to the belief that they're good for removing wax; they're actually completely useless for this purpose.

11-5-08

Michael Crichton died yesterday.

11-4-08

I voted today. Not that it made any difference.

"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."

-- P.J. O'Rourke

11-3-08

11-2-08

The math problem that Matt Damon's character solves in Good Will Hunting -- the problem that, supposedly, took a team of MIT professors two years to figure out -- is a simple tree puzzle that can be solved in minutes with a bit of trial and error and about 30 seconds' worth of graph theory.

11-1-08

Sichuan peppercorns aren't peppercorns.

Also, after owning it for over a year, I played Shogun and it was awesome.

10-31-08

Pumpkins are a type of squash.

10-30-08

Full Frontal Nerdity.

10-29-08

The US Puzzle and Sudoku Championships.

The "puzzle" part is okay, but...I think this is worse than tournament rock-paper-scissors.

10-28-08

Need a rimshot? Here's one.

10-27-08

PALIN: Hi folks! Sorry I'm late! I brought caribou burgers.

HILARY: Who the HELL is this?

MCCAIN: It's cool, she's with me.

HILARY: No! No, it's not cool! Every time you bring one of your rodeo-queen girlfriends in here she ends up playing some succubus infiltrator and killing the whole party!

MCCAIN: Now, that is patently untrue.

BIDEN: He has a point. Cindy turned out to be a vampire.

There's much more.