Nail on the head…

…why I haven’t really posted for a month. (Well, that and grad school is, well, hard.)

Friday Monty

Because it’s been 3.7 years since the last one:

Explanation

So… the internet’s been crazy slow at work for the last two and a half weeks. Like, dial-up slow. Basically I’ve been too annoyed to bother taking the 10 minutes per post it was taking. Thus, the lack of updates.

Starting tomorrow I’m off work. This could do two things. It could either increase posts because I have reasonable internet speeds, or it could continue to lead to ridiculous gaps between posts because I’m off doing something cool (or stupid). Time will tell.

Recover from Monday

Peaceful. Awesome. Make sure you watch it fullscreen in HD.

Tragedy

After six years of pissing on conservative theories about the “unnaturalness” of homosexuality, the infamous couple “Pepparry” has broken up.

(Danke: Hillary L.)

Milestone!

10,000+ views! Thanks for stopping by.

Looking for anacondas or titanoboa?

Then this is your post. But feel free to stick around for a while: you might like what you see. I do some posts on humor, politics, culture, Monty Python, science, ReTweets, potentially embarrassing tidbits, and some sports… let me know what you’d like to see more of.

You can also learn more about me and the site (and it’s ramblings) by clicking the links in the upper right.

For those of you that are wondering about this post’s prominent presence on the front page: turns out a not insignificant portion of my traffic is due to the titanoboa post, and I’d like to keep them around to increase the amount of conversation around here.

Those of you showing up because of that post: I’d love for you to stick around and chat a while.

Fire alarm

A great blog. Do it yourself fire alarm:

(Danke: Patrick Appel – his favorite is the hot water heater)

Ruth Madoff speaks

I feel bad for her. Assuming she’s telling the truth (and I have no reason not to believe she is), she was blindsided by the crimes of her husband, who was just sentenced to 150 years. From her first public statement since his crimes came to light:

From the moment I learned from my husband that he had committed an enormous fraud, I have had two thoughts — first, that so many people who trusted him would be ruined financially and emotionally, and second, that my life with the man I have known for over 50 years was over. Many of my husband’s investors were my close friends and family. And in the days since December, I have read, with immense pain, the wrenching stories of people whose life savings have evaporated because of his crime.

Because it can’t be said enough:

Happy Father’s Day!

Let the Right One In

Watched this movie yesterday. It was awesome. Also… there was a coup in Iran this weekend. But I’m sure you knew that if you weren’t camping all weekend like me. More on that later (the coup… not the camping).

It’s Friday afternoon

…and I’m mentally checked out. Going camping this weekend. Will be without a computer and happy about that arrangement. Hope your weather is as good as what’s down here (minus the tornado from last night, that is).

Here’s a video that’s a nice break if you feel like your mental acuity is slipping:

Have a great weekend!

European Parrrrrrrrrrliament

There are pirates in politics. Their agenda:

The Pirate Party wants to fundamentally reform copyright law, get rid of the patent system, and ensure that citizens’ rights to privacy are respected. With this agenda, and only this, we are making a bid for representation in the European and Swedish parliaments.

Hilzoy’s lovin’ it.

One really bad day in Tel Aviv

This is why you don’t hide money in a mattress:

A Tel Aviv woman has been searching through Israeli rubbish dumps after she said she accidentally threw away a mattress containing $1m (£700,000).

The woman, identified only as Anat, had bought a new mattress for her mother as a surprise and threw away the old one, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported.

But when the older woman returned home she “almost fainted”, as she had hidden her entire life savings inside.

A search of three landfill sites has so far turned up nothing, said the paper.

When the woman realised her mistake, she rushed out to retrieve the mattress but it had already been taken away to the Hiriya local dump.

She hurried to the dump, only to find the mattress had been shipped to one of two larger landfill sites, along with another 3,000 tonnes of rubbish collected that day.

Dating advice

From Ezra.