So the department has decided that they're going to have some sort of haiku contest ( Read more... )

I've been accused of being an anti-foodie in response to the extremely lazy recipes I posted previously. Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm very interested in amazing food, I'm just not interested in spending hours on it. Rather, either I let other people spend hours on it and pay them for their trouble, or I experiment with things that ( Read more... )

Recently on Metafilter, someone posted a link to Automated Mario: video of user-created Super Mario World levels that are designed to play themselves. And this was cool and nifty and entertaining ( Read more... )

My hobby: fixing broken rhymes in popular songs.

So slide over here
And give me a moment
Your moves are so raw
I've got to let you gnaw
I've got to let you gnaw
You're one of my kind

Oh, and:

Poor cook, he caught the fits ( Read more... )

This is one of the most beautifully offensive things I've ever seen.

Okay, so I'm on Second Life talking with a bunch of ponies, and this kid named Taladrian is quietly emoting to himself about how he is preparing a salad, and now he's putting dressing on it, and now he's eating it, and now he's putting away the bowl, all the while oblivious to anything else going on. Someone mentioned it, and I joked that someone ( Read more... )

I can't figure out whether this idea is so stupid it's awesome, or so stupid it's even more stupid.

I was thinking this morning about what I would name a punk band, and I came up with the following name:
So we're this band, but I dunno really what I should put here, cause we never really picked a name, cause like Mike was all saying dude, we gotta ( Read more... )

So reading about the origins of Bahamut I came across this:

[Bahamut] supports a huge bull named Kujuta who has four thousand eyes, and the same number of ears, noses, mouths, tongues and feet. Between every one of each is a distance of five hundred years' journey.This is obviously a word problem ( Read more... )

The other day I was struggling to describe a coworker who was recently moved into a technical job for which I am not convinced that he has the technical background to handle. I wanted to say that he was "about as technical as a ..." something, except I realized that there isn't a standardized "something" in the English language for "as technical as ( Read more... )

The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days." Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition 7*7 (49) times as much as ( Read more... )