Oh Crap, it's the Day After Mar 31

Your April Fool’s Day Joke Continues to Suck

… I get called a curmudgeon, or lambasted for having no sense of humor. And every year, the jokes online get lamer and lamer.

Ditto for me, and anyone who knows me knows I am not humorless. I’m of the opinion that a good prank need not be limited to one day in the year. This is the one day I probably won’t ever pull a prank — it’s amateur day. A good prank is almost like “The Sting”

You gotta KEEP your con even after you take his money, he can’t know you took him

Don't Worry, Higgs Will Know His Own

Physics conspiracy: LHC could kill us all

Conspiracy nuts have suggested that it might also inadvertently destroy the Earth (or maybe even the entire Universe)

[B]asically the cranks think that the collider will also cook up either an exotic particle or a tiny black hole that will suck up everything around it. It’s pretty much bunk, as others smarter than I have said (here for example).

But that hasn’t stopped Walter L. Wagner, a botanist and self-proclaimed nuclear physicist, from filing suit in US District Court in Hawaii to stop the LHC before it destroys all we hold dear. Wagner wants a “full-scale safety analysis” to be conducted of the collider before its start up, hopefully later this year.

If we’re really lucky, the LHC cook up an exotic particle that will “inadvertently” destroy the crackpots (and maybe take a few lawyers down, too). Not that anybody’s planning this, mind you …

My Drinking Problem

Is it a problem if you have to use a dolly to lug your beverage supply in to your office?

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Cut me some slack — there was a huge sale. It’ll take days to drink all this.