16 legs

As to the woman who recently had eight babies at once: think about sixteen legs, sixteen arms, 80 fingers, 80 toes, and eight heads writhing around inside of her. Aaaaagh! A super hum-octopus! I think fertility drugs should be illegal until the world’s population has dropped by a few billion.
What has sixteen kidneys and eight [...]

why this word?

Why do people who post to forums and blogs use the word “methinks” so often? Are they in a dorkiness competition? If so, I want to win. Here’s my entry: “Methinks that anyone who disagrees with me is a troll. Thither I see an army of Nazi e-mail goons arrayed against me, the [...]

staring at goats

Recently I mentioned a book I had read called Them: Adventures with Extremists. Very entertaining and enlightening material by Jon Ronson. A few years ago I read his second book, Men Who Stare at Goats. I didn’t think it was quite as well written, though it was entertainingly odd. It seems to be a true-life [...]

grasping at straws

Ever hopeful, I ordered a ticket for Burning Man–and am even considering having an actual theme camp called “The God Men of Seattle.”

I had 145 cc’s of fluid suctioned from my arm with a giant syringe.

Thinking about maybe trying to go to TAM 7.

Added “Brain Science” and “Skeptoid” to my podcast list.

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this land

I saw a video of Pete Seeger (he’s 89 now) singing Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” at Obama’s inaugural festivities. It seemed like a good time to repeat this great verse (sing along, dang it!):
As I was walkin’ – I saw a sign there
And that sign said – no trespassin’
But on the [...]

this photo made me happy

My niece is on the left. I’m not sure which college class this activity was for. Probably Health & Hygiene 200.

beautiful dead

Ron Asheton, 7/17/48 to 1/6/09. “I Wanna Be Your Dog.“
Patrick McGoohan, 3/19/28 to 1/13/09. Rover’s arrival.
and let’s not forget
Majel Barrett, 2/23/32 to 12/19/08. Multiple roles in the Trek universe.
Ricardo Montalban, 11/25/20 to 1/14/09. Famous among nerds like me for his way over the top performance as Khan in a Trek movie. “From hell’s heart, I [...]

the wrap up

All right, the dangblog-approved thank-you’s are out of the way. On with the story.
Yes, I spent close to five days with my arm in a Hammering Man device. I do need an additional surgery to get full functioning back, but I don’t want to think about that right now.  Currently I do rehab on my [...]