Eeew eew eew eew. Ok, so Hawaii, where I am right now, has some of the nation's biggest, meanest, scariest cockroaches. In the South they call them Palmetto bugs--the enormous ones that fly, and are almost too big to squish. Shudder. So there was one of those in my room just now, a giant one, …
Category Archive: General
Dec 18 2006
Innumeracy in the marketplace
Conversation overheard at a local retail store: Salesperson: "Ok, so for today only this necklace is a further 10% off the 50%-off price." Customer: "So, why don't you guys just say 60%?" Salesperson: "Oh, well, we just say it like that." How about "she doesn't say 60% because IT'S NOT FUCKING SIXTY PERCENT!" Last time …
Dec 07 2006
Whoa there, sailor
I almost missed this little tidbit about the male birth-control pill: It stops (though we didn’t initially assume so) all ejaculate... by blocking the pump mechanism. Orgasm is not about the fluid but the mental processes that lead and drive ejaculation; these are not changed. I agree than many people love the actual physical sticky …
Nov 09 2006
How can it taste so bad?
I have a new car, about which I will post later, when I have some pictures (taken with the world's crappiest digital camera, as we have yet to replace the cameras that were stolen). So. Slimfast from a can. Dear God, it can be horrible. How can they call this flavor chocolate? How does adding …
Oct 22 2006
It gets weirder
A couple of things don't add up, following the burglary. One thing is that it seems that the entry and exit probably happened through the back sliding glass door, with someone jumping over the wall and then leaving the same way. In that case, why are the two netflixes that I had in the mailbox …