If I were ever going to rant about something on this blog, I mean really let 'er rip, I'd rant about the self-proclaimed prophets of our day. I've often thought about doing this, but I always back off because, well, it's not polite to rant. Well, Michael Spencer has done the job for me. Really, if y...

McGruff is a perv Originally uploaded by NCinDC Here is a life lesson from me to you: Never fuck with a DC Metro bus driver. Thankfully, this advice does not come from personal experience. I'm the dork who says "good morning" to the bus driver when I get on and "thank you" be...

Sundays lately have been a day of total relaxation around our household. However the ever-rising mountain of laundry made us be a little more active then we normally would have been on such a day. Although I did find enough time in my busy schedule to take a nap with Loki. After staying up until 4:3...

I had what some might call an epiphany tonight. It was rather sudden, like most epiphanies are. Mine happened while I was sitting in our rather comfy orange chair in the living room watching ‘Wall-E’. I had my laptop open next to me and I was surfing the net while watching the flick. Iâ€...

A PORTION OF WHAT SEEMED TO BE NONSENSE I cannot seem to form coherent sentences. There was just a mass of chaotic words, coming out of nowhere…. I wanted to express myself, but I cannot vividly convey what I wanted to convey in the first place. What I have is just a mass of incoherent words formi...

PETA ads: sometimes ill-advised, often nonsensical, frequently stupid, always predictable. But at least they were trying. Not any more. They went ahead and hired strippers. Usually the whole "I'd rather go naked" thing features some sexy celebrity. When it just shows the employees of a strip club yo...

Here's a physicist's analysis, via FFT, of the opening chord to A Hard Day's Night.  (Hat tip Tyler Cowen.)  As the pop era's moral equivalent to the "Tristan chord" (an ambiguous event in a work of tonal music which continues to create great puzzlement and a regular stream of authoritative pronou...

The following is from a recent New York Times article on how snack food company Frito-Lay have based their latest women-focused campaign on 'neuromarketing'. Parts of the article nearly made with weep with despair. [Advertising agency] Juniper Park used neuromarketing in a slightly different way. Ms...

There are three questions leftover from last weekend's "q&a" post. Wanted to approach them civilly, with honesty & integrity, while relaxed and properly caffeinated. Shall we? "What childhood song do you, surprisingly, still remember the words to and find yourself singing every once in a whi...

Ana Marie is apparently going to read David Denby's illiterate and factually challenged book of nob-slobber, Snark. She starts by listing all these things that Denby believes "snark" to be. Some are right there on his title page. Snark is mean! Snark is personal! Snark is ruining conversations! In s...