“The researchers note that poltergeist encounters have been reported around the world and across different cultures, but tend to have one thing in common. ‘Poltergeist disturbances often occur in the neighbourhood of a pubescent child or a young woman,’ the authors note in their paper.” [via] Look, I don’t want to put too fine a [...]
I used to work at NASA Langley Research Center and one of the things that always cracked me up was the attitude there. Most people don’t know that the various field centers do different kinds of work. Hell, most people don’t know there even are a bunch of field centers. At Langley, the attitude was [...]
Did I mention that I bought myself the Season 1 DVDs of WKRP in Cincinnati as a “You finally have a full-time job” gift? Awesome, I know. These are just some of the lines that have thus far cracked my shit up: The Pinedale Mall has just been bombed with live turkeys. He used to [...]
…if you have nipple piercings, apparently. To be perfectly honest, I cannot imagine getting my nipples pierced. Just thinking about it makes me want to grab my breasts in a comforting and not at all sexual sort of way to reassure myself everything is okay and intact and NOT PIERCED, but I don’t care if [...]
…then I don’t want to be right. I have another suburban resentment: excessive and unnecessary amounts of tree pollen. There are a slew of flowering trees out here and they are all out to get me.
Flair, out of control I can’t control my flair. That is to say, I cannot control its inevitable entry into my life. Although it hasn’t happened yet, flair will apparently start appearing on my cubicle nameplate without my consent. I am told there is nothing I can do about this and so I must resign [...]