Archive for August, 2006

the Prankster
(42% dark, 38% spontaneous, 26% vulgar)
your humor style:
CLEAN | COMPLEX | LIGHT
Your humor has an intellectual, even conceptual slant to it. You’re not pretentious, but you’re not into what some would call ‘low humor’ either. You’ll laugh at a good dirty joke, but you definitely prefer something clever to something moist.
You probably like well-thought-out [...]

Earlier this summer I acquired all ten seasons of Friends on DVD. I started with season 6 earlier this year, then kind of cascaded into the other nine. By the time I finished watching all of them several weeks ago, I was sick of it.
So, I’ve finally started over with season one, and I’m going [...]

Hippocrates was a pretty smart dude:
Folding fact #33
400 BC Hippocrates (460 - 377 BC) determined that the male contribution to a child’s heredity is carried in the semen. By analogy, he guessed there is a similar fluid in women, since children clearly receive traits from each in approximately equal proportion.
But Aristotle was a male chauvinist [...]

Dude, you’re not getting a Dell or an Apple, because BATTERIES A-SPLODEY!!
…Well, A-OVERHEATEY, actually. But A-SPLODEY sounds more dramatic.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Apple is recalling 1.8 million battery packs for its iBook and PowerBook notebook computers because of an overheating problem, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced Thursday.
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Apple consumers with affected products should stop [...]

The FDA has ruled that women (and men) over the age of 18 can buy the emergency contraceptive Plan B over-the-counter. Minors will still need a prescription, but now they can bypass the doctor’s visit and the asshole pro-forced-birth pharmacist by having a parent or older sibling or friend get the pills for them. It [...]

House Season 2 was released on DVD on Tuesday, and the people who are lucky enough to have it already have been nice enough to put up the blooper reel on YouTube. Apparently they all have a lot of trouble with those big fancy medical words.

Pluto has been demoted from “planet” to “dwarf planet” after some discussion of expanding the definition of “planet” to include Ceres, Charon, and 2003 UB313. Today, they decided against it and demoted Pluto instead.
This decision will come as a blow to schoolchildren around the world, who will have to memorize a new mnemonic device, and [...]

Season 3 of House is premiering two weeks from yesterday, and FOX has finally produced a new promo.
Evidently, House did receive the ketamine he requested at the end of the season 2 finale, it worked, and he is able to not only walk, but jog eight miles without even so much as a limp. What [...]

Or your cello will get tossed in the cargo hold and snapped in two.
This reminds me of the time my high school’s music department went on a cruise and all of the people with larger instruments checked them for the flight and several of the basses and cellos had their necks snapped. What is wrong [...]

You know, I actually like her with brown hair. Everyone knows brown hair makes you look intelligent and distinguished. Too bad she’s planning to go back to the bottle blonde in about six months.