Ferguson’s TOE
August 01, 2009 // Link
Craig Ferguson has a great monologue on “Why Everything Sucks”:
Forget 11-dimensional M-theory, this is the best candidate for a theory of everything I’ve heard all week.
Tiny but mighty
August 06, 2009 // Link
Overheard little girl say to her mom:
“Money talks, doggies walk.”
That’s one adorable but mercenary 5 year old, or is that redundant?
Thoughts for the day
August 16, 2009 // Link
2 blades, 3 blades, 5 blades ... I’m tired of the razor arms race. Someone should just come out with a good single blade razor and call it the Occam.
Also, you can’t spell “dyslexia” without “sexy.” Just sayin’.
Thar she blows
August 20, 2009 // Link
Right now, exactly right now, I’m watching a TORNADO just south of my office.
This is not a usual sight for Toronto.
Oh, hey, I just realized I’m about to leave and drive south...
Cross-country cross-dresser
August 28, 2009 // Link
Eddie Izzard is running a circumnavigation of Britain — 40 marathons in 47 days — to raise awareness and funds for Comic Relief. Interviewed on the hoof during marathon number 19, he quipped:
“In the beginning? Well ... in the beginning was the word and the word was fish ... Every religion looks bonkers compared with another religion.”
With a sweep of the hand he effects a dramatic voice: “What do you believe? Well, we believe that all soup is special and that every third Sunday after the fourth Sunday after the 12th, we get together and sing ‘Hallo, halla’ and we bang on the ground, put soup in a bowl and all these endless things. Then we throw sandwiches at the walls and pray for more sandwiches...”
Eddie Izzard is fecking brilliant.
A day without fusion is like a day without sunshine
August 30, 2009 // Link
Sign in a physics dorm:
“Heisenberg might have slept here.”
It’s funnier if you imagine me saying that in a lab coat.