note: i have injured my right wrist and its quite painful, particularly using my little finger (hence, the absence of caps and apostrophes). because typing is such a pain — literally — i will use the “just add water and microwave” carnival version (sorry). the last couple of ...

no, just lectures. Today’s funniest headline: CBC’s How to Think Aboot Science series. The announcement. The wrist kept me awake, and around 2:30, I got up and puttered around until I was so tired I could barely keep my eyes open and went back to bed, around 5:30. Of course, that made me fee...

first, let’s just get it out of the system. On three. one. two. three. wooooooooooooooooooooo! (channeling the crazy guys at pensblog). speaking of, here’s their write-up of the pens-caps game, and don’t miss the comments. the commenters are as crazy as the bloggers. i’ve bee...

“The Orthodox are the only Christians who write basso profundo church music, or need to.â€� –Leon Podles, The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity From Rachmaninoff’s Vespers: O Gladsome Light of the holy glory of the Immortal Father, heavenly, holy; Blessed Jesus Christ, ...

With thanks to Radio Free Canada, today’s quiz question is: What will make you shout “Hell, yes!” at least three times even though it’s Lent? This will, even if you’re not much of a hockey fan (trust me on this one):...

but I have a hard time believing that somebody will come up with anything better than this. Many of us are hoping that all those in power fail, because those in power have a grating habit of being annoyingly self-righteous, hopelessly corrupt, resolutely incompetent and completely apathetic about th...

I bet you think this is going to be about creationism or something like that. You’re wrong. William Briggs, statistician (and if you don’t think statisticians can be humorous, you really need to drop by his blog), commented on an article I had sent him in one of those “Seen this?&#...

This is long, and far from charitable, so it’s beneath the fold. Read single article or Open it here… » It wasn’t the breaking point, but it’s just the latest: the favorite to run in 2012 at CPAC was Romney. I like Mitt, but he didn’t have a chance last time. What ...

Har! “say, is that a new clock?� “no, no… it’s been mine for quite some time… don surber just cleaned it for me.� “that was awfully nice of him. say, what’s that under your arm?’ “this? oh, this is my ass. while he was cleaning my clock, he also handed it me.� “how polite o...

Ken has a story about streamlining processes (we call that operations): Last year, we used a scoring template built by a math teacher at one of the participating schools (a GREAT GUY!) which required sorting to find the individual and teams scores after. Being a bit of a “Spreadsheet Jockey...