Daily Archives: September 26, 2003

BloggerCon Beginners Sessions Set

  Just sent Dave the blurb for the Beginners Sessions at BloggerCon.  It’s starting to look like I will be leading all three sessions, which I don’t mind except it means I will miss what I am sure will be … Continue reading

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Fasten Your Seatbelts

We’re starting to see these damn things everywhere.  What at first seemed either a sick joke or a classic American shill has been turning into a nightmare on the sidewalks of America.  Since I saw my first Segway from the … Continue reading

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Why I Always Keep a Roll Handy

WASILLA, Alaska – A hunter attacked by a grizzly bear on a remote trail said he used duct tape to bind his bite wounds, then rode an all-terrain vehicle to his pickup truck and drove himself to a hospital.   … Continue reading

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French Not Playing with Full Deck

Quelles, ceci sont des nouvelles? Que les grenouilles syphilitiques desuccion slithering dehors de dessous leur roche au badmouth les mêmes Américains qui ont tiré leurs châtaignes hors du feu DEUX FOIS pendant le siècle passé. Pourquoi ceux jaded les imbeciles … Continue reading

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Found on Desktop at Work

I don’t know who’s responsible, but I found this poster on the desktop of the machine I use in the faculty computer room at a major Boston area university (which shall go unnamed because the higherups don’t want any more … Continue reading

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Are you Curious about Penis-fencing Flatworms?

I fell for this one 30 years ago, when it was called "The Biological Basis of Human Sexuality." We knew they wouldn’t be showing stag films in a Harvard biology course, unless they were about the horned rather than the … Continue reading

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