According to its Wikipedia article, the name Dexter (from the tv show of the same name) is a play on words from heraldry. Heraldic coat of arms are often separated into two sides – the left side being called the sinister, the right the dexter (left and right in latin, respectively). In positive symbols in the coat [...]
My wife has been saying Do you cut like a buffalo? for a week now, and I finally saw the music video today. I must make sure I haven’t lost our White Stripes albums…
I saw 2012 the other day – hollywood trash, not unlike I expected. What annoys me though is when they have to spend so little effort and thought on it that you can’t even suspend your disbelief for the duration of the movie. I mean, all that havoc taking place, but radios and cellphones are [...]
There’s a fundamental flaw in this country with how wage, healthcare and cost of living are thought of, which becomes evident whenever we start having ‘debates’ over these issues.
We tend to forget that there is always going to be a bottom rung in the labor market. There are always going to be cleaners, maids, farmhands [...]
In this BBC article , there’s some new confirmation for what’s been bothering me for some time:
“Disinfectants could effectively train bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics, research suggests.
“Scientists know bacteria can become inured to disinfectant, but research increasingly shows the same process may make them resistant to certain drugs.
“Scientists in Galway found that by adding [...]
We’re not much of a gifting couple. We like to give, sure, and we like to receive, sure, but we never really want anything. Not really want, anyway. Partly because we’ve never lost that poor mindset of counting coins (which makes sense – we’re still not that far off the national poverty line). Partly because [...]
This morning I have been totally cracking up on Catherynne Valente’s description of the city of Augusta on: http://blog.catherynnemvalente.com/ – I most enjoyed the comparison of Barnes and Noble’s cafes to anal sex…. fantastic.
A few weeks back I watched a History Channel documentary about 2012 – called, I think, “2012, End of Days” – which gave all the evidence for the coming catastrophe. Evidence present in the I Ching, the Mayan calendar, Nostradamus, prophecies by the historical Merlin and by “Mother Shipton” – and of course, lets not [...]
While I haven’t written for a while and despite boycotting the news (to a large extent), I have had some interesting stuff to write about lately. Only I’ve been boycotting that too.
In the meanwhile, here’s a list of this year’s worlds funniest jokes:
• 1) Dan Antopolski – “Hedgehogs – why can’t they just share the [...]
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I started listening to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but it was getting boring. In fact, I ended up listening to Steve Martin’s autobiography instead.
My problem with the Jane Austen zombie adaptation is that the daughters were trained “in the fighting arts of the orient”, and in a “shaolin monastery” no less… Its [...]
