Paul Simon is one of my favorite songwriters, and he's rightly lauded as a deft versifier. Among my many favorite songs of his is "Duncan", which has an interesting ABCCB(B) rhyme scheme. Here's the (IMHO awesome) first verse, for example:

Couple in the next room bound to win a prize ( Read more... )

While I understand how it happens, and I'm sure I'm not immune, I'm still amazed by how often someone will write something like "It's possible to do that with the current API" when they meant to write "It's impossible to do that with the current API".

A headline from Google News, exactly as posted:

Fifty to 70 American Adults Say They Have Sleep Disorders

And I know about 10% of them personally. Weird.

Excerpted from some advertising copy for the RPG "Two Worlds II":

A perfect mix of flexibility, creativity and state-of-the-art technology "Two Worlds II" is a perfect blend of classic and innovated RPG features, atmosphere, and technology.I don't know which I'm more excited about: the perfect mix, or the perfect blend. It's also hard to choose ( Read more... )

From Apple's internal corporate website: "Every 2 to 3 seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood."

I'm pretty sure it's more often then that. I, myself, need blood pretty much continuously, 24/7.

From a user review of Events and Adventures, a "singles club" (I'm providing no link since it sounds pretty scammy):

"Nobody, and I mean nobody, likes an adult who can take responsibility for their own actions."

Huh. You learn something new every day.

I recently received a spam email featuring the following uncharacteristically plausible claim:

I actually make $3,000 to $0,000 a month working from home, find out how.

As I've been reading about the events unfolding in the Arab world, something has struck me: When all is said and done, however many governments are toppled, whatever civil wars ensue, we'll be able to look back and say, with astonishing certainty, that one guy started it all. One unremarkable, unimportant, down-on-his-luck street vendor in Tunisia ( Read more... )

As prophesied in this post, I've now had a bunch of my creations posted at T-Rex is Lonely. You can get a list of links to just mine here.

More are in the pipeline.

There are feral camels in Australia. There are feral kangaroos in France.

As far as I know, to date there have been no sightings of feral poodles in Saudi Arabia.