When I saw this product at the grocery store...


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Yes, they do! A couple of my local grocery stores have eggnog on the shelves.

Imagine slightly-jerky hand-drawn animation, a bit like Bill Plimpton's stuff or a certain series of TV commercials...

We see a young woman at a desk, obviously trying to study but fighting off exhaustion.  There's a stack of books; if one's TV resolution is good enough one can see titles/authors such as "GRAY", "KNUTH 5", "Ψ0 ∴ ∄ m "*, "ORG CHEM ( Read more... )

If Google has only one hit for a phrase, it's called a "Google whack".  Is there a term for a phrase that has no Google hits, even though there should be some?

I'm not sure exactly what sparked the idea; probably a combination of trying to identify the mushrooms that are growing in our back yard, and reading a letter from a gay dad to a gay man's ( Read more... )

The upcoming movie Noah seems to have more magic in it than one might have expected.  Someone plunges a wooden rod into the ground, unleashing a spreading ring of fire; stuff like that.  Some miraculous stuff is part of the story, of course; we see snakes and birds and animals streaming toward the ark.  And falling fireballs and gigantic geysers, ( Read more... )

I just watched Peter Bloody Jackson's The Hobbit, splitting my attention with a bit of code work, which was probably for the best ( Read more... )

The assumptions built into the recent Doctor Who stories, and the emotional buildups followed by the goofy hack resolutions, continue to annoy me ( Read more... )

I'm thinking that we should rename Oxana to "Paris".

1. She is blonde, and has been bred for looks, not brains.  Very effectively.
2. She spends most of her time grooming herself.
3. She's very attention-seeking: "Look!  I'm pretty!"
4. She's innately destructive.
5. Many people are allergic to her.

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"... And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day walking out singin' a bar of "Alice's CEGEP" and walking in. And friends they may think it's a movement.

"And that's what it is, the Alice's CEGEP Anti-Fee-Increase Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar."