Tag: links

A friend and I were driving through the city when I spotted a spray-painted wall. GAP IS KILLING REDWOODS!

Me: Gap is killing redwoods? I suspect Gap is doing worse things to humanity than that.

Him: Yeah. Like popularizing the color orange.

4:31 p.m.

Thomas Lynch is a poet and an undertaker. I’m reading his prose autobiography The Undertaking and he wrote something I liked:

“The meaning of life is connected, inextricably, to the meaning of death; mourning is a romance in reverse, and if you love, you grieve and there are no exceptions-only those who do it well and those who don’t.”

2:42 p.m.

“Alex, I’ll take Needs a New Hobby, for $500.” Someone collected all the phone numbers from movies and TV shows and put them at the 555-xxxx site.
One redeeming point, as The Ultimate Insult noted, they do have The Simpsons’ phone number.

1:25 p.m.

Catscan is a site that posts scans of cats. The instructions on how to scan your cat are almost as good as the JPEGs.

11:42 a.m.

Most of you have probably seen this, I’ve gotten about five copies, but the photo is so worthwhile. Someone found a fried chicken head in their McNuggets.

12:18 p.m.

The Myrtle Beach Fire Department plans to return a large donation they received at a recent ham rubbing. But this wasn’t just any ham rubbing, this was the Fourth Annual Ham Rubbing (all caps) at which “women danced on stage while having their bare chests rubbed with a ham. ” Now that’s entertainment once you get that pesky gag reflex under control, anyway.

2:30 p.m.

People I wish I knew:

The guy on the train who had a patch sewn onto his jacket sleeve that read, “Missouri is for lovers.” He also had a piece of material pinned to the back of his sweatshirt hood that said, “nomeansno.”

9:54 a.m.

The photo that goes with this article is worth the link. Freekay. Seems that during WWII, a Nazi sympathizer planted a bunch of trees in the shape of a
swastika. It’s only visible from the sky when the leaves change in autumn, but they’re still cutting it down.

2:07 p.m.

I’d be willing to bet that when most people let their minds wander, they think of something more interesting than:

Labor-Intensive Unshelled Legumes: A Short List

  • Brazil Nuts
  • Pumpkin seeds
  • Pine Nuts
  • Sunflower Seeds

My computer has SETI. What I need is a project that harnesses my brain’s unused resources for the good of humanity. Perhaps I could power a very small light bulb or something. How ’bout it, science?

11:54 a.m.

Your Mom portal. My favorite jokes are in the “Math” section:

public boolean whore(String x) { if (x = “Your Mom”) { return true; } else { return false; }

9:51 a.m.

Stuff that creeps me out, in order of creepiness:

  • Russian grandmother sells her living grandson for organ harvesting.
  • Japanese men are signing up for an online service that lets them woo a virtual woman over email. They must court the woman, and if they’re good enough the relationship will, ah, progress. If not, the “woman” dumps them.
  • This museum has an exhibit on the human body that includes fake human feces floating in a toilet. Kids love it.

2:11 p.m.

With my ears plugged from the cold, I mistook an ambulence siren for an aria and looked around for the fat lady.

10:28 a.m.

From this week’s Onion:

Hypothetical Question Clearly Not Hypothetical

YUMA, AZ– Brad Thorstadt was rattled Monday,
when hiking partner and longtime friend Ken
Daniels asked him a hypothetical question that
clearly was not hypothetical. “What the hell did
he mean by, ‘Hypothetically speaking, if you and
Cheryl were into threesomes, would you consider
me?'” Thorstadt asked. “That’s not the kind of
thing you just ask hypothetically.” Thorstadt
added that he likes Daniels and everything, but
damn.

3:08 p.m.

Overheard a city mom talking to her little girl. They passed a produce stand and mom said:

“Look at the all the fruits and vegetables! Do you see the asparagus?” Pointing to a stack of neatly trussed bunches. “You have a toy asparagus at home, but that�s how they grow in the wild.”

I�d like to hear her take on hamburger.

12:40 p.m.



From the SF Gate Pic of the Day site. “A Palestinian child looks through a bullet-ridden metal gate in front of a shop in the West Bank town of Nablus.”

3:22 p.m.

One of my haiku product reviews appearing in the December collaboration issue of Web Techniques:

Talisma Online Services

Trailing willow branch,
Best-of-breed solution suite,
A sun ripened pear.

www.talisma.com

I love my job.

11:49 a.m.