From before EITHER of us was born

October 8th, 2009 No comments

I’m amused that #mileycomeback is the top trending topic on Twitter today. Makes me think of this:


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Beat what?

October 5th, 2009 1 comment

I know it’s been lame around here; we just bought a house, so stuff is CUH-RAZAY. To make up for it, I give you this:

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Moist

October 2nd, 2009 No comments

This is crazy:

What really interests me is that it doesn’t even appear that boat traffic stopped, or even slowed down, even as MASSIVE storm cells passed directly over the city. Are Hong Kong folks just used to getting pounded by typhoons?

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Furry

October 2nd, 2009 No comments

Garfield Minus Garfield continues to slay me.


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Bach it up

October 1st, 2009 No comments

I do. Do you? (DernWorks.com)



I kinda want this on a shirt.

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Shoulda put a ring on it

September 29th, 2009 3 comments

HW and I got engaged over a decade ago, long before it became vogue for the recently affianced to hire a professional photographer to follow you around a municipal park for three hours, posing pictures on rocks and flora. (We got our professional engagement photo taken at J.C. Penney’s, I think.) So we missed out, I guess, on all the hilarity.

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Closer to a closer

September 28th, 2009 No comments

I usually remember that Keith Olbermann is wicked smaht, but I always forget that he writes very well.

His act was always the same. He was there when the park opened, and he stayed till it closed. And any time he thought Mauch could possibly see him, he raised his sign, which read, simply “BUNNING.” If he had one friend with him, that guy carried another sign reading “AND SHORT,” but there was supposedly a three-man version (one fellow with “AND” and the other with “SHORT.”). “He has to be reminded,” I heard the guy say. “He has to be reminded, every year, what he did.”

He goes on to explain who should replace Brad Lidge as the Phillies’ closer, and let me tell you, I’m convinced:
And one Philly starter offers these numbers in the first innings of his games: .219 opposing batting average, .259 opposing on base percentage, less than one base-runner per first inning, 3.41 ERA. Another maps out at a.197 BA, .288 OBP, 1.05 WHIP, 1.35 ERA.


The first guy is Joe Blanton. The second one is J.A. Happ.


I’m not sure why Joe Blanton has such a high first-inning ERA if his WHIP is under 1; perhaps he just gives up too many home runs, 30 on the year so far, compared to Happ’s 18. Since the absolute last thing you want a closer to do is give up a home run, perhaps Happ is the better option. I wish he threw harder, though.

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Brickin’

September 25th, 2009 1 comment

99 Bricks! It’s like Tetris, but…the opposite, I think? It’s way harder than it seems to be. My top score so far is 360.

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Difference engine

September 23rd, 2009 No comments

Charles Babbage was so misunderstood.

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Best of all time

September 22nd, 2009 No comments

This killed me. And you can do it with any site! Brilliant.

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