It gives you nausea.
Filed in Science & Pseudoscience 28 March 2006, 17:21I was aware that it was a trendy thing now to mix hard liquors with the “energy drink” Red Bull. Personally, I can’t fathom it — even the thought of Red Bull on its own makes my stomach turn. For that reason, I guess I always assumed it was a Fear Factor-style “I […]
A small game
Filed in Random, Funny, Distractions 22 March 2006, 20:24Enjoy this post by the dangerous leftist Michael Bérubé. Then, count the Borges jokes in the comments. (Note for the unenlightened: yes, Jorge Luis Borges is the greatest writer ever.)
Snip-snip
Filed in Random, Media 18 March 2006, 7:43I’m up too early, so this may not be totally coherent. But I’m watching this week’s The Office on TiVo; “Take Your Daughter to Work Day”. At one point in the episode, Dwight attempts to read to the visiting kids from the greatest childrens’ book ever written, Struwwelpeter (specifically “Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher”). […]
Holy Crap.
Filed in Media 16 March 2006, 16:06The Five Fists of Science, starring Nikola Tesla and Mark Twain. This is going to be the best goddamned comic ever.
People keep dying
Filed in Media 1 March 2006, 16:34Because of my addiction to comedy programmes on BBC Radio 4 and BBC7, there are quite a few British comedians whose work in those venues I love, but know almost nothing about. Thus, I was somewhat caught off-guard today to learn that one of my favourites, Linda Smith, died Monday of ovarian cancer. I knew […]
Burning bright
Filed in Blogging, Meta , 9:23I’ve set up FeedBurner to track usage of my RSS/Atom feed. This involves configuring lighttpd to redirect any requests for the feed to go to FB instead, unless they are actually coming from FB. I think I’ve set it all up correctly, but please let me know if you’ve subscribed to the feed […]
