It was 6°F this morning. It is now 8°. It rarely gets this cold here. I did go outside for a few minutes. I don’t like cold but I do find it sort of interesting and I sort of like going outside for just a very short time to experience the single digit temperature just [...]

Hair salon names – Lots of clever ones there. Is “Curl Up and Dye” a chain or did a lot of people just have the same idea? I’ve seen two others. Also, they missed another of my favorites: “Twisted Scissors.” Incidental Comics – About life. Very good. Anatomy of Gadgets – Weird gadget art. I [...]

Well, so much for my hopes for an unseasonably warm winter. There’s about an inch of snow on the ground (my estimate from just looking out the window) and it’s 10 degrees right now – one degree colder than when I got up this morning. And it’s supposed to stay cold all week. Still, this [...]

One of the benefits of getting older is that you start to notice certain patterns. Actually, long before I was anywhere near what you might call “older” I noticed that every ten years (give or take five) The-Wise-Ones-Who-Tell-Us-What-To-Eat change their minds about what we should be eating. I recall a family gathering when I was [...]

The time wasting continues. I’m still spending entirely too much time at Yahoo! Answers, my new vice. Here’s the weirdest question I’ve seen so far. Below is the entire question in case they delete it. If TV is real then how is it possible that they can broadcast fiction, science fiction etc.? Shouldn’t any fiction [...]

The Lemon Stand has a beautiful quote about giving from the heart. Here’s just a little part of it: “When you give from here,” she declared, pointing to her solar plexus, “it’s like keeping a ledger book. That’s not giving, that’s trading. I give you three so you give me three. I sweep the floor [...]

This is so delightfully silly and yet, surely this is the way it was meant to sound. A must listen for Lovecraftians. First seen at the delightfully silly and creepy Ectoplasmosis (a few related links over there)

Time to bring back this little weekly feature that has been on hiatus for several weeks. This started out as just a silly little idea that I only intended to do once. But then the next week I found a few more quotable bits and decided to post them in the same format and so [...]

I was thinking about commenting on the WikiLeaks brouhaha sometime before Christmas but never got around to it. It’s still going on, though the media seem to be getting a little bored with it, so I guess it’s not too late. We all love knowing secrets and we really hate that powerful, important people are [...]

This is all your fault, Charles. (Yeah, I know; two links in a row) Of course I already knew about Yahoo! Answers. I had even thought, “Maybe I should start reading that once in a while,” but for some reason that particular post at Dustbury got me started. In two days I haven’t found anything [...]

Dr. Pepper that is. Here’s a gallery of Dr Pepper imitators or “generic Dr. Pepper”. I had no idea that there were so many. I also had no idea that there is a soda named after me or that I had been awarded an honorary doctorate. Besides that one my favorite names are Dr. Extreme, [...]

Here’s the t-shirt you need to wear next time you fly. (U.S.)

We’re always making up new words, or borrowing or re-purposing* words. (*Yes, it’s a real word; I heard it on HGTV [/sarcasm]) But there are so many beautiful and awesome old words that have been forgotten. We should resurrect some of those. Not just because they’re beautiful and useful but because it’s so much fun [...]

I do not entirely agree with Lake Superior State University’s list of banished words for 2011. The problem with many words is that they’re overused or misused so much that they become meaningless. Take “fail” for example. At first I hated it and refused to use it but as you can see I have on [...]

Good morning to you on the first day of this fine new year. The years are little more than numbers to me anymore. It still seems like years should start with 19 but now we’re living in this future fantasy world where years start with 20. Cool, man, I’m living in the future! I liked [...]