Scott Adams: In his own words
Maybe you heard that the comic strip Boondocks is taking a six month hiatus. The creator, Aaron McGruder apparently doesn’t have enough time because he’s working on his animated TV show. The interesting part is that he hasn’t drawn the strip himself for years. According to an interview I read,…
Read MoreToday, Sunday, I’m at the Pacific Life Open tennis tournament in Indian Wells, CA. If you know someone who knows someone who knows someone who is also there today between 11 am and 3 pm, ask them to ask me for a signed sketch for you if they can find…
Read MoreIf you lived on a planet with almost no gravity, would you be able to fly just by peeing? Discuss.
Read MoreLast May I started having trouble with my voice. I figured it was allergies. But it didn’t get better when allergy season ended. Eventually I went to the doctor and he told me it might be acid reflux. I popped the anti-reflux pills and waited for the cure. But it…
Read MoreAs regular readers of my blog already know, I’m engaged. I am learning many things about this process, each more shocking than the last. Recently I learned that, in addition to sending out wedding invitations, sometimes you also send out pre-invitations telling people to hold the date. This offends all…
Read MoreThere are plenty of laws against activities for no reason other than those activitiesare annoying. For example, you can’t make too much noise and botheryour neighbors late at night, you can’t litter, and you can’t walkaround naked in public. These are good laws but we should add some more. I…
Read MoreI’m traveling today and writing this post on my Blackberry whilewaiting at the airport gate. I just realized that the enormous lump in mypants was my keys. (This time anyway.) Somehow I got through the metaldetector with a wad of keys the size of a small beaver, and I apologizefor…
Read MoreYesterday I asked two 8-year old girls the following question: If you had to choose between being rich and just a little bit happy versus poor and extremely happy, which would you pick? I was worried for the future of our world when both girls immediately replied “rich and only…
Read MoreIf you had to design a dating web site that matched people on just two criteria, what would those criteria be? I think about this sort of thing all the time. And by “this sort of thing” I mean worthless questions. And I don’t give up until I have an…
Read MoreOne of the secrets of comedy is that sometimes you want your audience to be stumped for a fraction of a second before they figure out what the joke is. It’s like pulling back a rubber band and letting it snap in their brains. The trick is make the punch…
Read MoreIn a recent post I mentioned that Penn and Teller claim there is no credible science showing that second-hand smoke is harmful. Someone commented by supplying a URL to Dear Abby where she mentioned a study about the bad effects of second-hand smoke. I wittily asked “You get your science…
Read MorePeople keep asking if I’m a Libertarian. Chat sites and web sites and blogs have devoted considerable time to this ultra-important question. I thought it was time to clear up things. The answer: I haven’t really looked into it. I have some vague idea that Libertarians are big on personal…
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