Category Archives: Blog stuff

Two words: Cockroach farming. Yeah, me too. When great dramas go badly wrong. “Next time you’re lying in bed, unable to fall asleep thanks to the vague anxiety of half-rotten corpses munching on you in the dark, remember this: if … Continue reading →

I’m old enough to remember when people inserted random words on Usenet posts in a (joking?) attempt to confuse NSA surveillance routines. The past is never dead… Cheating the lines at Disneyland is now harder to do. Dodos apparently lasted … Continue reading →

Turn that music down! And get off my lawn while you’re at it. “Fifty-five percent of Americans and 7 out of 10 young people support allowing gay couples to marry. A majority of Republicans, 52 percent, oppose it.” How to … Continue reading →

How did I manage to reach this point in my life without knowing what a TOOTBLAN is? An interactive map of possibly inhabitable planets in the Milky Way Galaxy. I’m sorry to hear that “Hoarders” was canceled, but I am … Continue reading →

“Next I see the gluten-free section filled with crackers and bread made from various wheat-substitutes such as cardboard and sawdust. I skip this aisle because I’m not rich enough to have dietary restrictions.” If the mixtapes you made in college … Continue reading →

Happy Day After Equinox, everybody! The pros and cons of charging for autographs. There’s now an app for ordering Big Macs, if you’re into that sort of thing. Some alternate expressions for “Jumping the Shark”. The wildcard tiebreaker scenarios as … Continue reading →

How to recognize and avoid falling victim to phishing attacks. If you don’t know what “phishing” is (it has nothing to do with these guys), you definitely need to click that link. You want to know why some people are … Continue reading →

The surprisingly conservative origins of streaking. Three words: Deep fried Nutella. You’re welcome. More energy efficient football stadiums, please. From the Eats, Shoots and Leaves department. “Imagine if, instead of just getting annoyed when the phone rings and it’s a … Continue reading →

“Onan’s sin was his exploitation of the helpless and his failure to fulfill his responsibility in the safety net for childless widows.” “You know the Bechdel Test: Now meet the Russo Test for LGBT movie characters”. The worst moments of … Continue reading →

School starts tomorrow, y’all. Here are some photos of giant sinkholes. You’re welcome. “So, you know, in keeping with Newton’s Laws, every bit of grandiose idiocy is matched with an equal and opposite bit of grandiose idiocy.” How Twitter fights … Continue reading →

“The decision to stay within the narrow lanes of your own fantasies is a choice, not biological determinism.” First person to write a diet book for animals wins. The Internet name space is about to get a whole lot bigger. … Continue reading →

Twenty-eight things that happened after the Harry Potter books ended. That iPhone charger may be doing more than just charging your iPhone. Dolly Parton is even cooler than you thought. “But now Republicans have taken themselves hostage. They’re threatening to … Continue reading →

Soon, your car will need anti-virus software, if it doesn’t already. Same for your house, too. And your yacht, too. Is nothing sacred anymore? I’m sure the fine people at FreedomWorks will drop their own insurance coverage in solidarity with … Continue reading →

Sharknado was educational. Just think how much the sequel could teach you. Granting corporations a right of “religious freedom” is bad enough. Granting them that based on phony science is even worse. Christie Hefner tells what she learned working for … Continue reading →

“Because [Rex] Reed makes no efforts to hide the fact that he’s a big, snotty baby, the whining id of white male privilege, there’s little reason to take him, or by extension any other critic, as an authority.” That’s from … Continue reading →

These jokes are smarter than you are. Getting a diagnosis of something is not always beneficial. A first person account with advice on reporting sexual harassment, in particular at a convention. And what to do about it. What would you … Continue reading →