An article in today’s New York Times is worth a peek: “At the $27 million Creation Museum evolution gets its continual comeuppance, while biblical revelations are treated as gospel,” the paper says. Read it to find out about this strange…
Couldn’t resist the headline. I remember seeing a cockroach race at the Houston Museum of Natural Science when I was a little kid. I like how Houstonians find creative ways to deal with the city’s infamous little residents. (Actually, some…
Best graffiti ever
Replace each letter below with a digit to make the math correct: Contact me when you figure it out! (Puzzler courtesy of The Mensa Puzzle Calendar)
The headline from MSNBC caught my eye: Kevin Federline is a legend in his own mind. That was enough to intrigue me. I clicked over and read the photo caption for the pic at right: “Kevin Federline, the most underrated…
Driving down the streets in my neighborhood, I am reminded that Halloween is just around the corner. As usual, I’m procrastinating when it comes to my costume. (Wordy way of saying, “I don’t have one”) But for everyone’s enjoyment, here’s…
Okay, I got turned on to this phenomenon through a friend of mine on Wall Street. On Friday morning (10/6), Aleksey Vayner was another name in a pile of resumes. Another job applicant from Yale for an entry-level banking job.…
Like many others, I read today that astronomers decided Pluto is not a planet. It’s not that it is no longer is a planet, but that under new definitions it never would have been. Truthfully, I don’t care too much–it’s…
According to an article from the BBC News, a Chinese province is cracking down on a custom of hiring strippers for funerals in order to increase attendance. Now it’s illegal, and you can be arrested for “funeral misdeeds.” Can you…
Cleaning up files on my computer… I have this poem by Pablo Neruda saved in a sticky note. Thought I’d post it here. For those of you who can understand the Spanish, I hope you enjoy. I think it’s very…