Independence Day 2.0
SUPERBOWL SUNDAY, 22,000 MILES ABOVE THE EQUATOR Life as a satellite is disappointing. The first few hours are exhilarating, full of rocket blast, thrusters, an...
Category: Fun Stuff
Humorousness.
Gnome Physics
All subatomic particles — electrons, protons, neutrons and so on — are composed of extremely small gnomes. While relatively unknown, the gnome theor...
Psychic Powers
Skeptics sometimes remark that if psychic powers were real, psychics would have a genuine evolutionary advantage, and so eventually everyone would evolve to be ...
Breaking News
ATLANTA — In a news conference Saturday, CNN president Ken Jautz announced that CNN’s hyperbole reserves will be empty by the end of next week. R...
Writing Concisely, for Dummies
Write like this.
Alex’s Laws of Internet Argumentation
So it seems a thread on SFN inspired me to create Alex’s Law of Internet argumentation. I’d like to elaborate a bit on that, and propose a new Law o...
Nerd Poetry no. 2
First, read the poem What I Believe, by Michael Blumenthal. It’s crucial to understanding my poem. What I Believe I believe that unicorns exist, but that ...
Nerd Poetry
This is what happens when you tell a nerd to write poetry. ‘Twas a warm summer day in La-La Land, Fields of grass swayed lazily in the breeze, The cool wi...
List of Loopiness
Kommandant of commas Sultan of spelling Advocate of adverbs Adjutant of adjectives Savant of style King of correctness Guru of grammar Partisan of participles M...
The Illegal Operation
Nerd poetry! This is what happened when I was forced to parody The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. (Yes, it’s long, but it’s worth it. Really.) Once upon ...