June 07, 2004
Someone's got a case of the Monday's
As I am fat I could only take a brief walk around the blogosphere today.
- Earn Your PhD While Playing Games - It's like getting paid to play Nintendo. How cool is that?
- What's Google's Secret Weapon? An Army of Ph.D.'s - Speaking of PhD's, guess who hires guys that did their dissertation on the physical effects of Up, Up, Down, Down on the cheat-code subculture?
- Mastercard Priceless Parodies - You've probably seen a number of these pictures before, a couple new ones I thought were lolable.
- Couple's joy at 'deep freeze' baby - The kicker: the sperm that fertilized the egg was 21 years old. That's what I call one bitchin' hang over. (Via Julius)
- Last widow of Civil War veteran dies - Speaking of 21, this gal married an 81-year old Confederate veteran by the name of William Jasper Martin, when she was 21. They met, got twitterpatted and the rest was history. (Via Karen)
- Potty-Mouthed Programmers - If you're ever really bored one day, instead of just reading my blog, read the comments of the Linux kernel. There you can pick up all sorts of geek vernacular juxtaposed euphonic swear words.
- Job Titles of the Future - I like the sound of Creatologist and Animation Skeptic. Though Director of Fun has a certain mesmerizing ring to it. (Via ibergus)
Now here's where all two of my audience members get to guess as to what this alien insect (on the left) is in the photo. (Via Fulton Chain):
Chirp chirp, creak creak
Oh easy. That must be one of the Dragonflies they ride around on in Lin Carter's Under the Green Star series. That one's a baby - although Carter's hero himself can never figure out whether the bugs on that planet are real big or the people real small... but that's how it is in "The Burroughs' Tradition" of scifi, we don't worry about pesky details.
Posted by: Tom Novak at June 8, 2004 06:42 AMtim, we both know thats a picture of you... probably attempting to mate. hehe
Posted by: andrew at June 8, 2004 03:13 PM