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I don’t remember anything before this point, but I was walking out of my old elementary school, Belfast Consolidated, and noted that they had installed automatic sliding doors. Outside, the snow had piled so high that some kids were having fun on the roof pushing off six-foot drifts. I got into a car and sped [...]
One sense of “normal” is statistically normal: what everyone else does. The other is the sense we mean when we talk about the normal operating range of a piece of machinery: what works best. – The Acceleration of Addictiveness (via)
“Innsmouth,” by Jack or Nothing
i was wrong, nothing depends on that red wheelbarrow and don’t get me started on the damned chickens.
The website I Write Like features a “statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them to those of the famous writers.” Just for kicks and giggles, I ran it three times, two from blog posts and one from a movie review. So according to their infallible computer… I write [...]
Our office is on the first floor of our twelve-story building near the elevators, so we are sometimes forced to act as the building’s unofficial receptionists. That means we get to shake our heads at some of the people who, while living in the 21st century and presumably capable of either operating a motor vehicle [...]
It’s the thirtieth anniversary of Pacman — and Google has a playable header. Can anything in the future top it? Not unless they do a bacon-themed header that actually tastes like bacon.
Another of the great ones passes: Frank Frazetta, an illustrator whose vivid colors and striking brushstrokes conjured up fantastic worlds of musclebound heroes fighting with broad swords and battle axes to defend helpless women from horrible beasts, died on Monday in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 82. The death, caused by a stroke, was confirmed [...]
