Wired magazine asked a bunch of science fiction writers and others to write 6-word stories. Some of them are pretty awesome.
Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
- Alan Moore
(post title by Steven Meretzky)
In the breakroom down the hall, the styrofoam cups come in 3-foot high stacks, which are too tall to be stable, so people break up the stacks into more manageable ones. And for some reason I could never explain, it bothers me when the closest stack is almost gone, while the back stacks have […]
You know what I really hate? I hate it when an article says something like the following: “Out of 1000 people polled, 20% said they had eaten a bratwurst at least once. Of those, only 10% knew what sausages were made from.” Now, the way I read it, and what it should […]
The other day a kid from my alma mater called asking for money for the alumni fund or whatever. I wish I had seen this so I could have told him why I wasn’t donating:
University Bans Humor Quotation From Student’s Door — 10/19/2006
(CNSNews.com) - Officials at Marquette University have ordered a Ph.D. student […]
I switched themes, that last one was too girly. I’ll probably play around with it a few more times until I find something I like.
Tucked away in fine print in the military spending bill for this past year was $20 million to pay for a celebration in the nation’s capital “for commemoration of success” in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Not surprisingly, the money was not spent. Now congressional Republicans are saying, in effect, maybe next year. A paragraph written into […]
Why is today a Red Letter Day? Let us count the ways.
Unlike last week, the temperature outside is somewhat cooler than the surface of the sun.
I had mushroom soup for lunch. Although honestly, I didn't finish it. The Monday Morning Cafeteria Menu email advertised “Wild Forest Mushroom Soup.” But what was […]
I'm spending most of the holiday weekend volunteering at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. I wanted to be a photographer, but instead they put me back stage to help the multitude of Albertan folk singers coming through.
Yesterday there was a Ukrainian music quartet (lots of Ukrainian immigrants in Alberta, apparently,) and at one […]
How long do you think it will be before the cops find some middle management schmuck tacked to his office wall with some of these?
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