Losses Not Insured
From the section on “Losses Not Insured” in our new renter’s insurance policy: War, including any undeclared war, civil war, insurrection, rebellion, revolution, warlike act by a military force or military personnel, destruction or seizure or use for a military purpose, and including any consequence of any of these. Discharge of a nuclear weapon shall [...]
Synog
In the course of reading my RSS feeds this morning, I did a little research about a church in the Kansas City area. In the search results, another church came up as a “Missouri Synog” congregation. I laughed – synog sounds like snog, which is slang for “making out” – and Googled it. It’s funny [...]
Close the “Iowa Prenatal Care Survey” Gitmo
From a place of extreme sleep deprivation and slap-happiness, Jennifer and I would like to present our Selected Answers to the Iowa Prenatal Care Survey. It is worth noting that they present this survey in Scantron fill-in-the-bubble format, which ought to be considered cruel and unusual punishment for new parents. Today’s date: I have no [...]
Lord Uxbridge’s Leg
I am in awe of Wikipedia. It contains within its august pages a detailed history of the severed lower appendage of an otherwise minor nobleman at the Battle of Waterloo. Go read the article, the poetry (yes, poetry) is really quite hilarious!
Impeccable Logic
I think there’s something to this too: “Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved.” – Medieval German proverb Thanks to First Things for this little bit of edification.
The Worst Show in the History of Television: Cop Rock
Jennifer was in the break room at work today when VH1 was showing “I love the 90s” for the year 1990. Apparently there was a show that ran for 11 episodes in 1990 called “Cop Rock.” This show fused a gritty television drama about police work with campy original musical scores to create the hideous [...]
Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
Nate and I dreamed up this list this morning: Different programming languages’ approaches to “Do the simplest thing that could possibly work.“ perl: Do the simplest thing that no one can read. C: Do the simplest thing that could possibly compile. java: Just extend SimpleNamingSchemeWithAllNounsNameContainer. C#: Do it in Java, only don’t suck as badly [...]
What people really think when I talk
My friend and co-worker Nate drew me a picture today with the Mouse Gestures extension for Firefox. He says that when I talk, this picture shows what it’s like for him. For what it’s worth, I don’t wear glasses anymore, and I don’t have a receding hair line – at least not yet. But who [...]