As I was wrapping up my last few things at work today, my cell phone rings with a number I didn’t recognize. After a failed first attempt (@!&#! Verizon), the call came again. It was Discover calling about my credit card. Seems someone in San Francisco had rung up an abnormal amount of $58 charges […]
Kafka, Roosevelt, W.C. Fields, among others. 10 Famous Insomniacs
xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuIOwy65kTs
[Irma] Ortiz, 44, is among a group of California food-flavoring workers recently diagnosed with bronchiolitis obliterans, a rare and life-threatening form of fixed obstructive lung disease. Also known as popcorn workers lung, because it has turned up in workers at microwave-popcorn factories, the disease destroys the lungs. A transplant is the only cure. Cripes. Time […]
Sorry for the hiatus, I spent the last 9 days lying flat on my back. Apparently sometime on the last Saturday in April I managed to mess up my back. I did some odd jobs around the house, played with the dog, that kind of thing. But by early afternoon, I couldn’t bend over to […]
Found here (via this potentially NSFW link)
When dogs feel fundamentally positive about something or someone, their tails wag more to the right side of their rumps. When they have negative feelings, their tail wagging is biased to the left. … It suggests that the muscles in the right side of the tail reflect positive emotions while the muscles in the left […]
Nerds, rejoice. Online backup company Mozy is here to save your data. Mozy is essentially off-site backup storage for the consumer. What’s that, you say, you don’t have off-site storage? What happens if tragedy strikes and your hard drive fails and the last backup you made was a 700MB CD two months ago? With Mozy, […]
This was kinda funny, in the I’m Too Big of Geek Kind of Way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEWgs6YQR9A