2008-02-07 09:49:16: Wow, I have a bunch aside from 9/11. My first was Challenger. I was in the first grade and we had a prayer service the next day for the astronauts (settle down, kids, it was Catholic school). I still have that image burned in my head of the trail of ...
2008-01-21 07:21:35: Supercomputer:
0100100001110101011011010110000101101110001011000010000001001001001000000111011101101
0010110110001101100001000000110111001101111011101110010000001100100011001010111001101
1101000110000101100010011010010110110001101001011110100110010100100000011110010110111
1011101010111001000100000011011010110111101101100011001010110001101110101011011000110
0101011100110010000001100001011011100110010000100000011100110110010101110000011000010
1110010011000010111010001100101001000000111100101101111011101010010000001101001011011
1001110100011011110010000001110110011000010111001001101001011011110111010101110011001
0000001100011011010000110010101101101011010010110001101100001011011000010000001100011
0110111101101101011100000110111101110101011011100110010001110011001011100010000001000
11101101111011011110110010001100010011110010110010100101110
Me:
Hey, supercomputer. My friend says pi goes on forever and ever. I'm like, 'No way! It's gotta end sometime.' So, is there, like, an end to pi?
Supercomputer:
0101001101110100011101010111000001101001011001000010000001101000011101010110110101100
0010110111000101110001000000111010001101000011001010010000001100100011010010110011101
1010010111010001110011001000000110111101100110001000000111000001101001001000000110000
10111001001100101001011100010111000101110 [drones on endlessly]
Me:
Whew. Dude, let's go get some tacos. But you're buying, Mr. Believes in Infinite Pi. Dumbass.
2008-01-23 08:55:34: Our grocery store has self serve checkout lines. At first there were four mini stations, designed to serve the "10-items-or-fewer" crowd, but now they've converted two of those into standard checkout lines with long conveyor belts and a spacious bagging area so that anyone—even the proprietor of the local Mexican ...
2008-01-21 06:54:26: So not a haunted house in the sense that it’s verifiably, dangerously haunted — just a haunted house in the sense that some people who are willing to declare houses haunted have in this case done so?
Well, I don't believe in ghosts either, so to me all haunted houses are ...
2008-01-18 09:42:13: Standard slingshot with uber-human skill: maybe a horse, if I get lucky and make it through the eye. More realistically, one of those 600 pound tortoises, if he sticks his head out long enough for me to aim. Those shells are impenetrable, but the skull can't be more than a ...
2008-01-17 09:43:43: For a frame of reference, I was born in 1979, my parents in '39 and '41.
I am becoming my father in that I listen to NPR, have gray hair (way more than someone my age should be burdened with), go around the house turning off lights (my family can only—despite ...
2007-12-10 06:48:05: I'd really like to see the question queue so we can vote up/down suggested questions. In part, it would help set a standard for BBQ-worthy questions ("WTF? My question on what to name my mixtape hasn't gotten any votes?") and also keep me from resuggesting questions. Maybe a personal queue ...
2007-12-07 14:51:29: I'm not feeling the bugs. An orchestrated, intelligent attack would look like what? French Fry's machete-wielding bug-blob, while enjoyable to imagine, could be dispatched with a garden hose. A mass of hissing cockroaches covering my body would squick the shit out of me, but not much more. How could they ...
2007-12-05 07:25:18: Thirding T-Bone. Funnily enough, the BoDeans song Lookin' for Me Somewhere was inspired by a conversation between BoDeans frontman Kurt Neumann and T-Bone talking about Emmylou Harris.
2007-12-03 07:59:12: My god this is so simple and obvious, it's scary. As he did in the past two presidential elections (okay, okay..."allegedly"), G. W. Bush will tamper with the voting process. But instead of suppressing Democratic voters or getting SCOTUS to implant him, he'll hash a deal with Diebold to engineer ...