Category: daily drivel

  • blogging with bonkers

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    Bonkers is helping me write blog posts this morning. In a way. Read.

  • javaless

    I’ve been on the road for a couple days in the service of the Great State of Wisconsin, which means that I haven’t had a decent cup of coffee until just this morning. The hotels we stay in on these trips are all the kind that serve a complimentary breakfast of dried cereal or make-your-own… Read.

  • Oh My!

    Who makes ’em smile at the DMV? George Takei and Kermit the Frog! Read.

  • my son is a boss

    This is nothing new to me. Our eldest son, the Sean-er-ator, has always eaten apples entirely, even the stems. My favorite part of the video is when he wipes his hands on his shirt. Read.

  • the wave

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    Who doesn’t love sitting in traffic? Especially when there’s no apparent reason for it: no crashes, no tolls, no flaming mattresses. Wait, what? Flaming mattresses? That’s a thing? Because if it is, I feel cheated, having never, ever seen any flaming mattresses in any of the traffic jams I’ve been caught up in. How have… Read.

  • it’s behind you

    Obligatory reposting of moon joke in today’s XKCD: Read.

  • Bugs, Mr. Rico!

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    There’s been a lot of publicity lately for a book I just finished reading, “Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo,” and all of it has been along the lines of “From Bras to Space Suits,” or some such nonsense. It’s a much more fascinating book than all the hype makes it out to be, not least because it… Read.

  • puzzling memes

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    According to today’s puzzling meme, I’m supposed to feel secure in the national sense because of deer hunters: A blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and arrived at a striking conclusion: There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin .. Allow me to restate… Read.

  • puzzling memes

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    Maybe I’m missing the point of this meme, but to me, your argument is invalid when you start with the premise that North Korea, Afghanistan and Iran are better than the US because they shoot people who cross their borders. Read.

  • Manic Monday

    The song stuck in my head all last week was The Bangles’ Manic Monday. Pick just about any one of their songs and I’ll tap my feet or sing along with it, so ordinarily I wouldn’t be bothered if one was stuck in my head for days on end, but Manic Monday is arguably the… Read.

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