QOTD

Every time I hear something about Christine O’Donnell being a lunatic, I think of this recent quotation by Jon Stewart:

“The last thing that I would suggest is that her witchcraft or masturbation stance should be what we should be thinking about or focusing on, and I think that’s an enormous mistake that the Democrats will make. We like to sit around the office and we have a little game called ‘How will the Democrats blow it?’ And that’s the way they’ll do it. They’ll think somehow that that will resonate with voters, that 20 years ago Christine O’Donnell on MTV said ‘Masturbation is a sin.’ And they’ll play it, and they’ll ridicule it, and the voters will be like, ‘Yeah, I don’t have a job.’ That’s how they’ll blow it.”

While I agree that the craziness of the Tea Party needs to be brought to light, I think it’s useful for all of us to remember that we need to point out how crazy they are on serious issues too. That idea has kind of refocused my thinking over the last few days.

Kickin’ it old school

Funny stuff

The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

Bwaaahaha!

A fed-up student asks the physics prof who’s going over kinetics in protracted detail, what good is all this? What will I ever use this for? To which the professor, not even looking up from where he’s writing on the board, says “This stuff saves lives.”

The student balks for a second and then gets belligerent, demanding to know how first-year physics saves lives. The professor doesn’t even turn around, saying “it keeps idiots like you out of med school.”

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QOTD

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base.

–Dave Barry

QOTD

The thing about Texas is it’s so easy to forget you’re in Texas because they’re so bad about reminding you every damn where you go.

– lonelysandwich

Are Wii Fit?

I can’t laugh too hard, because we own one.

The Third Stooge

found here.

Q: “Any of you had any experiences with caBIG?”

A: “caBIG provides a scalable infrastructure for discovering and obtaining grant money”

Eric Jain, responding to Deepak, via friendfeed

New World Order

Chill

Improbable and Wacky Science

The 2008 Ig Nobel Awards are out!

My favorite this year:

PHYSICS PRIZE. Dorian Raymer of the Ocean Observatories Initiative at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA, and Douglas Smith of the University of California, San Diego, USA, for proving mathematically that heaps of string or hair or almost anything else will inevitably tangle themselves up in knots.

Hiphopopotamus

My usual margarita recipe

@mward asks for marg recipes. Mine goes a little something like this:

1) Get Tequila out of liquor cabinet.

2) Take a swig of tequila, y’know – just to make sure it’s still good.

3) Search pantry for margarita mix unsuccessfuly. Take another shot – y’know – just to help you think.

4) Try the closet, then the other cabinet (goddamn it, I swear we had some margarita mix somwehere…) After finding none, do another shot – yknow, just to help loosen up those neurons.

5) Search the cabinet again, this time by throwing the contents on the kitchen floor. (fuckin’ mix, gotta be here somewhere…). Swig from the bottle liberally to help numb the frustration.

6) Give up, sit in the middle of floor with the bottle of tequila. Suck on limes and shake table salt into your mouth between pulls.

Font Conference

This is Brilliant.

Scissors Bomb Mailbox! MAILBOX!!

Ode to Beaker

Italian Training Camp

Origin of Species

Historically Challenged Protest

I hate to break it to you, but . . .

Even Puppets hate Expelled