IDWID: It do what it do

This is surely not new to a lot of people (I first saw it probably a year or so ago), but I still have to post it nonetheless, because it’s an example of something that made me laugh for all the wrong reasons. Perhaps one of those reasons is having empathy for someone drowning in a very public way. Or perhaps it’s cruelly laughing because, hey, it’s not me drowning, it’s you. Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t know what this means, but I thought I’d dash off a few sentences about it. At work, I sit by a window that’s next to a fairly busy intersection. Every few days for the past few weeks, this semi-truck drives by the building through the intersection. Except, for some reason, he always sounds his horn — very briefly, maybe a quarter of a second — as he approaches. Read the rest of this entry »

The original headline for this was “Time Waster #1″ because I expected “Time Wasters” would become a series on this blog, but that was jumping the gun and also would cut down on the potential for original headlines, so I’m going to nix that idea.

Anyway, my sister Jill sent me this YouTube clip I found amusing. Read the rest of this entry »

One of my favorite examples of Internet snark goes back at least a decade. Amazingly, the page continues to exist today. (I was going to say “thrive,” but that’s an overstatement, because it doesn’t do anything but sit there. To coin a phrase: It do what it do.)

The page is ostensibly a real physics experiment by a college student who was fed up with BS experiments performed with substandard equipment that yielded BS results. (As someone who had his share of college chemistry labs, I can relate. College chemistry lab results are a crock of BS.) Read the rest of this entry »

Those damn crazy Trekkies are at it again, making it harder for us more balanced Trekkies to show our faces. Read the rest of this entry »

When using a public restroom, after I wash my hands, I need to dry them, right? One can’t go into the world with one’s hands dripping with water. That’s why we’ve got electric hand dryers that blow hot air.

Personally, I prefer paper towels because it seems faster to me (5-10 seconds) than using the hand dryer (20-30 seconds), but sometimes they don’t give you that option, because that would require additional janitorial staff to come in and empty the wastebaskets filled with discarded paper towels. So, we have the hand dryers. You know what I love about hand dryers? Those hieroglyphical instructions that explain how to use them. In case you didn’t know. Read the rest of this entry »