Tag: General nonsense

Osama released a new video. Analysts are wondering how his beard turned from grey to black. I guess his healthy lifestyle is paying dividends. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20649227/site/newsweek/ [no longer available] I assume this new video is from the real Osama because a fake would do a better job matching the beard.  In…

On Wednesday, my wife and I watched a U.S. Open tennis match in Arthur Ashe Stadium. You have never seen anything like it, unless you have been lucky enough to see an ant wrestle with a crumb. That’s what it looked like from our cheap seats. Obviously I am exaggerating,…

This week I am in Manhattan, living like a New Yorker. I have learned many things about the city. Today I will teach you how to ride the subway. First, when you drop part of a cookie in the subway station, the five second rule does not apply. That cookie…

I love the idea of the lost city of Atlantis because it fits so well into an alternate theory of human origins. In the alternate theory, the first life on Earth was an alien settlement. The aliens built a scientific base station in Atlantis and used their advanced technology to…

I’m with my wife in New York City this week. Yesterday we walked to Central Park and did tourist activities, spending about five hours outdoors. I had on my sunscreen and my baseball cap. Walking back to the hotel, I removed my hat for the first time all day because…

The biggest reaction I ever got from this blog was when I stated my opinion that the evidence for evolution is bullshit. Thanks to recent news, it’s time to make that case again, but this time more clearly. I confess that my writings on this topic in the past have…

My next post will be Monday morning.

Today I am visiting the small town where I grew up: Windham NY. I have to write this post on my BlackBerry. If it looks odd, that’s why. In Windham, they’ve heard good things about the Internet, but there’s still a wait-and-see attitude.  I haven’t been back to Windham since…

Today I am visiting the small town where I grew up: Windham NY. I have to compile this post on my BlackBerry. If it looks odd, that’s why. They’ve heard good things about the Internet here, but there’s still a wait-and-see attitude. I haven’t been back to Windham since I…

There was a study in the late nineties that showed males become aroused by certain scents. http://health.msn.com/centers/mensexualhealth/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100167992 [no longer available] The biggest winner in the smells-that-make-men-horny contest was pumpkin pie. The researchers are baffled by why that particular smell is so effective. Allow me to help them out with the…

Did you see the story about the two Chinese coal miners who survived six days after a tunnel collapse? They ate coal and drank their own urine. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070828/od_nm/china_mine_coal1_dc_1;_ylt=AjSdP8lISg1LTBPSwwJceN0E1vAI [no longer available] I had many reactions to this story, and that’s not even counting “Eewwww!” When I was young, parents encouraged…

As regular readers of this blog know, all coincidences are clues that we are holograms programmed by our long dead ancestors before the planet was annihilated. How else could you explain the two stories forwarded to me today? 1. A Republican Senator has been arrested for lewd conduct in a…

Sunday afternoon, a youth league basketball coach and his team play an away game in Pleasanton, CA. After the game, they grab some lunch at the In-n-Out Burger, then head home. The van with the team takes off, and the coach drives his beat-up old sedan to the gas station…

I’d love to have a complete scrapbook of all my vacations, but it’s too much work. That’s why I need a service that would create the scrapbook automatically, online. Here’s how it could work. First, my digital camera should have GPS so it always knows where I am. When I…

I don’t tell this story often, because no one believes it. It was 1979, my senior year at Hartwick College, in Oneonta NY. One early morning I woke up from a dead sleep and had what could best be described as a vision of my future. In this vision, I…