“Tentacle Pot Pie”
A little creepy, but it looks delicious. And it just goes to show that you really can find absolutely anything on the Internet. 😉
Archive of entries posted by Head Geek
Antikythera Mechanism Duplicated — in Lego!
The odds are that you’ve heard about the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient (2000+ years old) mechanical device that was dredged up off of Greece more than a century ago. Four years ago, scientists finally figured out what it was for, calculating solar eclipses and other celestial events. It was really big news at the time, …
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Russian Viagra spammers, take note
The thought that girls like a big penis is not properly conveyed by the English phrase “big penis like a girl.” 😉 (Yes, I actually got several messages yesterday whose text was exactly that, claiming to be from “EnlargePenis.VeryGood4@yahoo.com”, to my great amusement. Somebody really needs an English lesson. Or a biology lesson, maybe. 😉 …
iGod?
Got any burning theological questions? Now you can get them answered… sort of. They really should put a warning on it though… “iGod cannot authorize crimes, crusades, or jihads.” 😉
“Silencing Wikileaks is silencing the press”
I’m sure some of you have been following the Wikileaks news recently… how the founder and spokesperson for the organization, Julian Assange, has been arrested in England, over an accusation in Switzerland. There are reports, which I haven’t been able to confirm, that the US is trying to criminalize Wikileaks retroactively and get him extradited, …
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“Why Richard Feynman can’t tell you how magnets work”
Have I ever mentioned that the late Richard Feynman is one of my heroes? This is a perfect example of why — he could have taken the easy way out and given a BS answer that would have satisfied the interviewer, but instead he tried to explain why he couldn’t explain it properly, while giving …
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“Capital One Made Me Different Loan Offers Depending On Which Browser I Used”
Inexplicable and puzzling. If I didn’t know that it was impossible, I’d say that their webmaster was playing a joke on them.
And since we’ve no place to go…
We’ve had more than three feet of snow here so far, and it’s still coming down — forecasts are saying we could see another foot and a half to two feet in the next twenty-four hours. News reports say that it shatters the previous record snowfall in this city, set in the early seventies. Where’s …
“Eight Days a Week”
Hyperbole? I would never indulge in it. Not in a million years.
The White Stuff
Judging from the picnic table in our back yard (one of the few things that I can see both the top and bottom of to properly gauge depth), we’ve gotten nearly two feet of snow in the last twenty-four hours. And it’s still coming down. Hard. Looks like it’ll be time for the annual inaugural …