Monthly Archives: May 2007

Counter-intuitive

I like the Schick Intuition Razors. Their combination of blade and shave cream in one tool means one less container that will be knocked to the shower floor a half-dozen times every morning as I fumble around in the shower. What I do not like is the fuckwitted case the local CVS displays the refills [...]

I cannot be the only person who finds this creepy.

Trasherati’s eyes will roll all the way back in her head when she reads this.

“It is interesting that the Puritans regarded the Indians as a lost tribe of Israel, the Quakers saw them as Children of Light, the borderers regarded them as rival warriors, and royalist gentlemen such as John Gibbon saw them as natural aristocrats with an inborn taste for heraldry.” -Footnote, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in [...]

I am a rainbow

Instead of doing laundry, I sought out all the color-themed quizzes here to learn some terribly important information about myself. Here’s what I gleaned: My brain is blue. I should drive a yellow car. I am an orange rose. My inner color is blue. My life is 68% green. One favorite color (blue) indicates that [...]

A bowl of what?

I’ve just seen the commercial for this and I have to tell you that while I am generally not shocked by much of anything, I really was not expecting to hear the words “…a bowl of semen….” come out of my television.

A legitimate claim to trustworthiness

“The community of scientists has a legitimate claim to trustworthiness that other social institutions, such as religions and political movements, lack. The structure of scientific inquiry involves procedures, such as experiments and open debate, that are strikingly successful at revealing truths about the world. All other things being equal, a rational person is wise to [...]

Update on OPP

By OPP I mean Other People’s Pets. What were you thinking? Dang, people. Twinkle is now hanging with Hugo and his peeps, one of whom called me this evening and asked if I thought Twinkle’s humans would really really want him back. And I know what she means because I want to keep him too. [...]