On a Lighter Note…
For those of you with a little extra cash to burn, I’ve found a website where you can put money down on propositions like this one… By the year 2150, over 50% of schools in the USA or Western Europe will require classes in defending against robot attacks.
For those who are hosting (or bringing a dish … or even just your appetite), Dave Barry has some tips. Great American Turkeys Tips for Not Hosting Thanksgiving Next Year [Heads up: the last one is pretty tasteless.] Quibbles with The Gobbler
In preparation for Thanksgiving (I’m in training right now…), here is some reassurance for those of you (well, me) who tend to over-indulge: Eat as much as you want: Katherine Flegal and colleagues from the Centers for Disease Control and the National Cancer Institute…used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which is…
CHAMPS!!! There’s success to go with tradition now, happy endings to replace the failure. Now, instead of wallowing in what went wrong, the fan base is joyous… For so many years, the franchise was defined by heartbreak, identified with close calls and bad breaks. The agony of defeat was seemingly part of the Red Sox’…
Friday’s Dilbert strip is so appropriate to Rhode Island’s predicaments (especially from our unique perspective) that I’ve emailed Scott Adams about making a t-shirt of it. In context of the particular bit of pith from Dilbert’s garbage man, keep an eye out for provisions in the law and in contracts that seek to expand the…
This is certainly a career move no one saw coming.
Knowing full well that it may keep you up too late tonight or get you off to a delayed start in the morning, I hereby introduce you to Chat Noir. Click the light circles to turn them dark and trap the cat before it escapes. Anybody who still has an extra second in the day…
The crotchety conservative purist in me recognizes how much more exciting the current Major League Baseball pennant race would most likely be this year under the old two-division system. This is what the standings might look like this morning, in the old American League East, where only one of the following three teams could secure…
According to the Harvard Crimson, the definition of “intellectual property” is running amok at Harvard University (h/t Instapundit)… Jarret A. Zafran ’09 said he was asked to leave the [Harvard Coop] after writing down the prices of six books required for a junior Social Studies tutorial he hopes to take. “I’m a junior and every…
Just a reminder that today is “Talk LIke a Pirate” day. I model myself on Steve the Pirate from my favorite movie, Dodgeball.