OK, here's irrefutable evidence that the "good old days" really were better:

When the Times of London reported in 1837 on two University of Paris law profs dueling with swords, the dispute wasn't over the fine points of the Napoleonic Code. It was over the point-virgule: the semicolon. "The one who contended that the passage in question ought to be concluded by a semicolon was wounded in the arm," noted the Times. "His adversary maintained that it should be a colon."

Has modern life killed the semicolon?

I know what you're saying: Brandon, you're just perpetuating the stereotype that homosexuals are superhuman. That is totally not true. All I'm saying is, with their boundless energy and talents, they make us straight guys look bad.

I'm too tired to read the rest of the article.

I know the guys doing this: [link] online show. really short episodes and only one so far. Not sure how funny it is/will be.

I'm too tired to read the rest of the article.

OK- this is funny!

But it took me a second of being all WTF?!?! to see that it was the Onion!

Timelies all!

Happy Birthday Steph!

Am back from the con. It was fun, aside from hotel screw-ups. The hotel booked loud parties (with DJs) in the space next to ours both Friday and Saturday night. The main function room had heavy bass coming through the walls.(Apparently the DJs were right against the wall we shared with them, and there was nothing to dampen the sound) We tried to fight back with a bagpiper on Saturday night, but that didn't work.

If this happens again, supplement the bagpipers with reenacters with claymores?

Spicy catfish, for the way. Not $14 worth, but reasonably tasty. My tongue is on a Thai kick, my stomach is not. This will end in angst.

7 million people! 14 million questions! I must away!

I wanted to note my favorite George Carlin about the difference between football and baseball.

In football, the object is for the quarterback—also known as the field general—to be on target with his aerial bombardment, riddling the defence by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy’s defencive line.

In baseball, the object is to go home, and be safe—”I hope I’ll be safe at home!”

David, I saw your story about Emmett's game - was the pitcher trying to hit him? or was it just a case that he's bigger and stronger?

This was true in most dairy states. It was illegal to sell yellow margarine, on the grounds that people might get confused and think it was butter. To protect the dairy industry, the yellow and the margarine had to be in separate packages.

They tried to introduce that in Australia too. One of the arguments in Parliament was that such a law had been introduced in many other countries, including Denmark. Which prompted our Prime Minister to reply "I'd always wondered what was meant by the phrase 'There's something rotten in the state of Denmark.'"