Tuesdays seem like they are neglected, so I decided to post something funny in honor of the fact that it is Tuesday. (And in truth, seeing my high school class group revived on Facebook spurred the idea.) So without further delay, here is a picture of yours truly, taken in either the fall of 1989…
Via Mary Robinette Kowal: Yes, it is true, I have run into friends like this. And yes, you know who you are. This had me laughing so hard that I almost decided to… well, write a novel:
A colleague stopped by today asked me if I knew who ESPN’s Sport Science host John Brenkus was? I didn’t. So he told me to go look him up at once on ESPN. Apparently, he looks just like me. Or I look just like him. I dunno, he looks older than me, but setting that…
Nerd moment of the day: I spent part of the afternoon today cleaning bathrooms. In doing so, it occurred to me that bathrooms in the houses in which I have lived since summer 2002 have increased exponentially as a function to each move. The chart below illustrates this: I started with 1 bathroom when I…
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…when you don’t discover you put your boxers on backwards until you are standing in front of the urinal? I’m not saying I’m having one of those days, I’m just sayin’…
In the November 1 issue of NEW SCIENTIST is an amusing review by Fred Pearce of a book called The Big Necessity by Rose George, which apparently is about the history of the toilet. I can’t give you a flavor of the one page review without quoting from it a few times: The Big Necessity…
Kelly does her laundry at my house every weekend. I find it amusing that when her laundry is finished there is always money sitting on my of the dryer. She has this tendency of leaving cash in her pockets. It ends up in the dryer. Then on the dryer. When you think about it, it’s…
I might as well tell you that I have been to the future a time or two. This is one of the benefits of being first a science fiction fan, and second a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. As a fan, I traveled to the future through the hundreds of books…
When they say that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, I always assumed that it was a symbol assignment (men being assigned to the god of War and woman being assigned to the goddess of love). Apparently it means something else. I have recently learned for instance, that there are at least…