Yay, more pseudo-scientific research about telephone telepathy. "Rupert Sheldrake, whose research is funded by the respected Trinity College, Cambridge, said on Tuesday he had conducted experiments that proved that such precognition existed for telephone calls and even e-mails." I guess he’ll be entering James Randi Educational Foundation’s Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge any day now. Or [...]

I’m ripping this off from Dan Century, since it is a great idea and I’m not above stealing good ideas. Here are some of the blog posts that I started, but never finished: "Alternate Input Devices for Computers" – Sort of information and reviews of some of the wacky alternative mice and keyboards for computers. [...]

Kirk Cameron thinks evolution is a crock! Well, if the former Growing Pains star says so, it must be true! Technorati Tags: evolution

As in previous years, I’ll be having a Zombie Easter, in keeping with the whole “dead people rising from the grave” vibe that I get this time of year. I’ll be watching Zombie movies while eating traditional Easter treats, like Peeps and Jelly Beans. I might even cook a ham. A zombie ham. There are [...]

I’ve got a pile of topsoil behind my driveway that I got last summer to fill in some holes. I used about half of it, then it got a little overgrown with plants. I noticed the other day that all the plants and weeds had been removed from the pile and it looked a little [...]

On March 26, 1997, the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate were discovered in a mansion in Rio Santa Fe, California. These folk “exited their human vehicles” when Comet Hale-Bopp was in the neighborhood, believing that a spaceship hidden in the comet was waiting to take them away. I’ve always had a certain [...]

Yay, Gorilla Suit Day! All you Cornelius and Dr. Zaius fans should be happy! It’s probably too late to buy a suit, though. Perhaps a better plan would be to watch some appropriate movies, like Planet of the Apes, the 1976 version of King Kong, or Gorillas in the Mist. Technorati Tags: gorilla

Here’s a list of some things in my office, along with a representative example from each group. Number of O’Reilly books in my office: 5 (random example: Perl Pocket Reference, 4th Edition) Number of action figures: 25 (random example: Total Justice Black Lightning) Number of cartoons attached to various surfaces: 7 (random example: Dilbert, February [...]