Cargo pants were originally designed for soldiers and outdoorspeople. In the 90s, laypeople started noticing this distinctive form of dress, which they associated with these rugged individuals who engaged in physically and strategically challenging activities. But rather than emulating them, or their activities, or even the specialized equipment ( Read more... )

The other night, euziere and I went out for sushi (Jimisan on 9th Ave. It was good!). We talked about ordering their special "Muni roll ( Read more... )

Warning: slightly juvenile.

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THOMAS and CLEMENT are at Good Vibrations, looking at the selection of lubes ( Read more... )

Just the other day, I was thinking about when you should and shouldn't omit the error terms from statistical equations.* Then I saw this.

* for those in other sciences, it's like the way you don't always need to add "plus a constant."

I have a urologist (don't worry, the post goes sharply uphill after this sentence). His name is Dr. Reginald Rector. What a shame, I thought, that he's not a proctologist. Then, when I got my bill, I found out that Reginald is his middle name. Sometimes instead of Reginald, he goes by his first initial, E.

So, everything works out after all.

I saw this billboard on the side of a building the other night (it was dark, and there was a bright streetlamp right under it but not illuminating it, which explains the poor quality). The text on the right side indicated that it was an ad for a Vegas casino. You tell me if that's what the image suggests to you:


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From the Mind Hacks blog:The article looks at two theories of humour that try understand what makes something funny. A common explanation is the 'incongruity' idea, that suggests when something is suddenly out of context it is more likely to seem funny ( Read more... )

In response to the popularity of the Twilight novels and the recent film, the Onion AV Club ran the article "What Will Be the Next Abstinence Vampire?". They speculated that if readers have fallen in love with a heroine who says yes to lurid sex with an unnatural creature of darkness but no to doing it before they're married, then we'll soon be ( Read more... )