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July 23, 2004
Tombstone Generator
And this, from Googlism: (I'll pretty much tout anything that has both "zany" and "madcap" in the review):
keelhauling is in order
keelhauling is a dutch ordinance of 1560
keelhauling is quite straightforward
keelhauling is showing up on the "near san francisco" list as #8
keelhauling is too good for the culprit
keelhauling is still on board
keelhauling is a real bitch on a starship
keelhauling is the act of stretching a rope from the fore of the ship to the aft
keelhauling is to drag a person from side to side or end to end under a ship
keelhauling is really painful
keelhauling is worse than whipping i bet
keelhauling is called for
keelhauling is to commence
keelhauling is a practice that dates back to the pirates of the luctine republic
keelhauling is standard procedure for any sailor who talks to their captain the way you talk to me
keelhauling is not very pleasant
keelhauling is navy
keelhauling is required? then the overhaul
keelhauling is too good for them
keelhauling is this
keelhauling is too good for you
keelhauling is looming in the near future
keelhauling is when a pirate would take 2 ropes and tie one
keelhauling is vastly underrated
keelhauling is for orcs
Posted by John at 08:09 PM | Comments (0)
July 14, 2004
The Household Laws
Hear now, my children, the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and so that I, your Father, shall not rebuke you. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.
Posted by John at 03:55 PM | Comments (0)
July 09, 2004
How to Catch a Lion in the Sahara Desert
I put this in the "Humor" category, but it's soooo geeky, it barely makes it. Various methods for catching a lion in the desert, according to prinicpals of mathematics and physics. E.g. The Thermodynamics Method: We construct a semi-permeable membrane which lets everything but lions pass through. This we drag across the desert.
Posted by John at 06:20 PM | Comments (0)
July 07, 2004
Fahrenheit 9/11 dissection
Dave Kopel, Research Director of the Independence Institute and an NRO columnist, uncovers 59 deceits in Michael Moore's film.
If you look up the noun "deceit" in the dictionary, you will find that the definitions point you to the verb "deceive." According to Webster's 9th New Collegiate Dictionary, the main (non-archaic or obsolete) definition of "deceive" is "to cause to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid." Although the evidence in this report demonstrates dozens of plain deceits by Moore, there are at least a few "deceits" in this report regarding which reasonable people may disagree. So if you find me unpersuasive on, for example, three alleged deceits, consider this article to have identified "Fifty-six Deceits" rather than fifty-nine.Kopel has previously written about the deceptions in “Bowling for Columbine.” Like Michael Moore, in 2000 Kopel endorsed and voted for Ralph Nader.
Posted by John at 02:54 PM | Comments (0)
Homeland Security: Don't Use IE
According to our own Department of Homeland Security, if you use Internet Explorer, the terrorists will win.
Posted by John at 07:29 AM | Comments (0)
July 04, 2004
Happy 4th!
Hamburgers on the grill, and apple pie with ice cream for dessert!
Of course, not Japanese ice cream. Everytime I go to Asia on business, Julie is amazed at how grateful I am to get back to the States. I have a pretty high gastronmical tolerance level, but those Asian diets do get to me after a week.
Take for example Japanese ice cream. If the "wacky world" approach isn't wacky enough for you, there's always the "wackier world" of Japanese ice cream. Gentle readers with weak stomachs are cautioned not to click those links. Gentle readers who are bulemic might actually want to bookmark them. Lettuce and potato ice cream?? Raw horseflesh ice cream??? GAAAA.
It is good to be an American in America.
Posted by John at 11:10 AM | Comments (0)
July 02, 2004
Who Are You?
If you're still trying to figure that one out, try 20 Questions to a Better Personality. It may not cure what ails you, but at least it will identify it for you. Me? Glad you asked!...
You are an SEDL--Sober Emotional Destructive Leader. This makes you a dictator. You prefer to control situations, and lack of control makes you physically sick. You feel have responsibility for everyone's welfare, and that you will be blamed when things go wrong. Things do go wrong, and you take it harder than you should.You rely on the validation and support of others, but you have a secret distrust for people and distaste for their habits and weaknesses that make you keep your distance from them. This makes you very difficult to be with romantically. Still, a level-headed peacemaker can keep you balanced.
Despite your fierce temper and general hot-bloodedness, you have a soft spot for animals and a surprising passion for the arts. Sometimes you would almost rather live by your wits in the wilderness somewhere, if you could bring your books and your sketchbook.
You also have a strange, undeniable sexiness to you. You may go insane.
Posted by John at 11:19 PM | Comments (0)
July 01, 2004
Age Gauge
Now that I've run myself through the age gauge, I know that I was:
43 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
41 years old on the first day of Y2K
39 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
36 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
36 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
34 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
32 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
31 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
27 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
25 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
25 years old during Sally Ride's travel in space
22 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
21 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
18 years old on the U.S.'s bicentennial Fourth of July
16 years old when President Nixon left office
14 years old when Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot
11 years old at the time the first man stepped on the moon
9 years old when Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated
7 years old during the Watts riot
5 years old at the time President Kennedy was assassinated
a 1 year old when Hawaii was admitted as 50th of the United States
Posted by John at 08:05 PM | Comments (0)
