I don't know what you use an egg cosy for, but they are cute little ninjas, aren't they?

I find soft-boiled eggs a lot more scary than ninjas.

To be filed under, "Maybe someone at the buffistas will find this as funny as I do"... a conversation from Twitter.

Classicist 1: Registered the inscription.es domain, just in case we might want to do something with epigraphy...
Classicist 2: I've always been tempted to register the test.es domain, just in case we want to do something with bollocks. (Y'know, as we might)
Classicist 1: Sadly, that domain is taken, as is test.is. Bet we could come up with some good, rude Latin domains though...
Classicist 2: Damnit! It wasn't last time I checked. I should have done this years ago, shouldn't I?
Classicist 1: You snooze, you lose, [Name].

Unfortunately I don't really know either of these dudes, and it's my professional space, so I don't feel very comfortable going BWAHAHAHAHA! at them.

Hee, flea.

Now that I'm going back to school for my master's, I have a lot more interaction with early-20-somethings than I have since I was that age, and it's a big shock to say the least. I'll mention a tv show from the 70s or 80s, and they have no idea what I'm talking about.

My friend who is going back to school for his MBA says that he's the culture guy in the class. The prof will say something about Patty Hearst, for example, and everyone will look at R for clarification.

We spent an hour in my library management class talking about the different generations that are currently in the workplace. The teacher was a bit of a geek about the subject, and I'm an even bigger one, so I was all over that discussion. We started out with a quiz that had us listening to different songs and identifying them and when they were from, and the corresponding generation that was in their youth at the time the song was recorded. Turns out, I was the only one who knew "A-tisket, A-tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald (thank you, Ken Burns's "Jazz" documentary!), but I had no idea on the N-Sync song that all of the 20-somethings in the class knew right away.

When the teacher was going over all the pivotal events in each generation, I put myself out as a rather typical early Gen-Xer and said that my earliest current events memory was reading in the local paper the transcripts of Patty Hearst's phone calls to her dad, and how horrified I was that some girl would talk like that to her own father.

35-year old Greg Fultz used a highway billboard to accuse his teenage girlfriend of having an abortion and thereby killing their child.

What billboard company would allow that?? I mean, he's a total dick, but so is the billboard company.

Sadly, that domain is taken

Of course it is.

Somebody should convince me that I want to eat the lunch I brought with me instead of walking a few blocks to Chipotle or Panda Express.

Please?