I really, really should have mentioned earlier that in addition to my other extracurriculars, I am now on the staff of Murmur.com. I have done very little work there so far, sadly, but plans are afoot to correct that. The articles I’ve written there are much more “general interest” and accessible than a lot of [...]

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also of note:
To Beat Cobra, We Must Think Like Cobra

from CNN.com:

Stay classy, cable news!

Yesterday, at about 2:30 in the afternoon, someone or something destroyed the water main that feeds my neighborhood. My psyche working the way it does, the instant I heard this news I went from feeling fresh, air conditioned, and comfortable to instantly feeling like the sweatiest, filthiest non-Hilton who ever lived. No condition changed except [...]

Ten years ago today, I had been out of college for about six weeks. I had taken four years that were supposed to be about a)intensive study in my chosen field or b) intensive care after partying four nights a week and chosen c) “neither,” devoting the bulk of my time to student quasi-government and [...]

hey!
I just had a bunch of friends come into town, several weeks in a row, and I have a lot of comments about that!
Okay, sassypants! Say those comments immdiately!
Umm… no.  Sorry! Later.

Nine years ago (!!!) my friends and I went to see the X-Files movie on opening night. As is the case a good 75% of the time, I can remember where I saw the movie, who I was with, and what my life was like that night, but I have no memory of what happened [...]

They’re cutting off all my escape routes!
It’s not just an aversion to change. It’s not. Everything was fine the way it was.
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When I was a young man, my dentist expressed concern that I seemed to be grinding my teeth while I slept. I had no way of knowing whether or not this was actually happening (you see, I was asleep) but as a kid who put a lot of stress on his own shoulders I found [...]

Oh, allow me a few moments of petty glee in my day

half of this page is in the teeny-tiniest font I’ve ever seen. Maybe its me.
And by teeny-tiniest, I mean invisible.
I have to be honest: I saw this comment, didn’t see anything like this in my own browser, and blew the comment off. For whatever reason, Firefox is immune to whatever voodoo incantation was affecting [...]

While I certainly appreciate the Secretaries of Defense and Labor and All That, I do sometimes wish there was a Department of Just Making Life Better, and that it was a cabinet level position, and that the Secretary was me.
It’s not all about me, technically, but I do think this: as many as seven of [...]

Men prepare a meal for enjoyment, and wine makes life merry, and money is the answer to everything.
-Ecclesiastes 10:19
So, how much have you missed me? Don’t be coy.

Watching it many years later on HBO, you would be amazed at the point in Attack of the Clones when there’s still a full hour left. The part I think of as the “big finish” is actually the last half of the movie.
I have more meaningful stuff to write about than this.

ooh, my birthday is right around the corner

Their primary skill is their incredible, catlike stealth.

Dangerous doctor; medically incompetent; scientifically unsound methods.
Why “quack”?
I mean, a lot of animals make a lot of sounds. Few of them health-related.
Did this start out as some weird “doc”/”duck” pun?

Slow motion water balloon!

Last night, I was at the grocery store taking advantage of ten unscheduled minutes. Three or four people in front of me in the checkout lane, a blonde woman roughly my age or younger, looking like a child of privilege or sorority type, was loudly talking on her cell phone while the bagger dispensed with [...]