Check out this story about a guy named Herman Libshitz who couldn’t get the email address he wanted because of Verizon’s policy that email addresses and usernames not contain profanity.
Alright folks. I’ve been listening to “Wait, Wait: Don’t Tell Me” this morning, and I’ve narrowed down the dumb news stories of the week to two. Now you have to pick: Which is dumber: A sales supervisor who used waterboarding to motivate his sales team (not a joke). or John McCain’s compaign trying to pass [...]
I was listening to NPR this morning, and heard an interesting story. Apparently, the Dr. Seus book “Horton Hears a Who” has always been associated with the abortion debate. The premise of the book is that an elephant discovers that a whole world of “who’s” live on a dust speck that he discovers, so he [...]
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So, it’s no surprise that I’m a geek. And as such, I often listen to NPR. And I enjoy it. A lot. So much so, that I actually download podcasts of some of my favorite shows in case I can’t catch them in my car, which is where I usually listen. One show in particular [...]
Friends, family, complete strangers — it is with all the humility that I can muster that I would like to announce that I have won the lottery! I have won 900,000 british pounds in a lottery in some foreign country that I’ve never heard of and never entered. Just read this email that I just [...]
Been a busy, busy week, and I’m not keeping ye ol’ blog up as much as I would like to… Here are a few links you may be interested in with all your Christmas free time… A physicist explains that Santa basically has 34 microseconds to visit each house. 50 people were killed and 80 [...]
