June 2009
124 posts
I Think You're Fat - Esquire →
I still tell plenty of lies every day, but by the end of the week I’ve slashed the total by at least 40 percent. Still, the giddiness is wearing off. A life of radical honesty is filled with a hundred confrontations every day. Small, but they’re relentless.
“Yes, I’ll come to your office, but I resent you for making me travel.”
“My boss said I should invite...
City in Montana requires job applicants to hand... →
Cliff sez, “Bozeman City, Montana now asks all applicants for jobs to ‘Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.,’ the City form states. There are then three lines where applicants can list the...
Pixar Grants Dying Girl Her Final Wish →
The folks at Pixar helped a dying girl fulfill her final wish when one of their employees hand delivered a DVD of the film Up to the family’s residence for a private screening.
10-year-old Colby Curtin was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in December 2005, and ever since she saw a preview for Up, she’d been excited for the poignant film about a man who goes on an adventure after...
Some say the world will end in fire /
Some say in ice /
From what I’ve tasted...
– Robert Frost
Bad tines: Robbery by fork →
Seattle police report that officers arrested for two men and a woman Monday night after after several pedestrians reported being robbed — at the point of a fork.
The robberies took place near First Avenue Northeast and Northeast 170th Street. The fork in question was held to look like a knife.
No word on whether it was a salad, dinner or serving fork. But officers got it. The fork...
Rules for Time Travelers →
Remember Rule 0: no paradoxes. If you have reliable records of having made some unwise decisions regarding your social life in high school, then those decisions were made, and can’t be un-made. Even if you go into a different branch of the wave function, where you bestow some wisdom-of-experience on your younger self, you would only be changing the history of that universe. There is still the...
Myspace has never centered anything on its users. Never. Myspace is, was, and...
– Upstart Blogger
Don’t knock masturbation. It’s sex with someone you love.
– Woody Allen
My daughter, camping with her dad. With a really, really dirty face that I’m trying to ignore. I really want to go spray her with an entire bottle of Lysol right now.