One sign of a sucky economy: NASA has put the space shuttle on sale.
The 1970’s era icon used to be $42 million. Now if you want to ride the rocket (or rather just sit in it in your backyard) the price has been reduced to $28.8 million.
This fall, the old orbital workhorses will go on [...]
The Urban Dictionary defines “wrecknology” as, “A piece of technology designed to prevent another piece of technology from working or to reduce its usefullness significantly.”
Yes, they misspelled “usefulness.” But the misspelling fits the definition like my cell phone fits into dead zones. That is wrecknology in action.
A scientist recently built the first man-made genome. The little sound you hear is your DNA adjusting to that information.
You get a call on your free Internet phone service.
RING
“Hello.”
“Hey, it’s me.”
Biscuits and cigarettes killed my grandfather (in that order). I lost my first tooth eating a biscuit. I know at least four ways to make biscuits and fifty ways to know when someone has done that job wrong. A wrong biscuit is an embarrassment to a Southern cook and a right one could get you [...]
It’s amazing what you can learn if you hang around Jeff. This week, he told me that there are companies who will “appraise” your website domain name and give you an accurate value. These valuations come with little certificates that look a bit like stocks or a diploma. It costs $15 to get that [...]
Once, when I was young, my father and I were traveling down a road out in the country and came upon a herd of cows. They were all lying down in the field like they were taking a break from cow business.
I recently read an interview with Dr. Louann Brizendine in The New York Times, and it cleared up some pretty serious questions I had about men and women and why we are from those different planets. Dr. Brizendine is a neuropsychiatrist who knows what is lurking up there in the cognitive soup between our ears, [...]
So Pluto is no longer a planet. So does this mean Plutonium is no longer an element? How about Pluto, the Disney dog? Will he be reduced to the lowly level of a cat, an opossum or, worse, Mel Gibson?
I can hear it now. “They had some layoffs in sales and Kevin got Pluto’d.”