Articles in the “quirky” category

Eating out of a toilet while sitting on a toilet

Posted 1 month ago

The product of a “potty mouth” I’m sure.

My WordPress links

Posted last year, at the end of January

After upgrading to WordPress 2.1 yesterday afternoon, I thought I’d managed the leap to the newest version of one of the most successful blogging software packages without a single misstep.
Wrong. Not a single link was appearing on my site. Oddly, no MySQL or PHP errors were thrown; the template tags get_links() just weren’t rendering my [...]

Serenity Now, Insanity Later

Posted 2 years ago, mid-August

Four days later, and it’s still ringing in my ears. There were four words I heard last week that nearly put me alongside Lloyd Braun in the nut house. Matt McCoy’s character on Seinfeld is famous for saying “serenity now, insanity later”, but for my experience at the Smithsonian Institute Air & Space Museum last [...]

The Ultimate Question: Who’s Better—Ortiz or Larry?

Posted 2 years ago, at the start of August

I just got back from lunch, and while checking up on the latest news of the day (still making sure some countries in the world are, in fact, still with us and Google hasn’t released another Beta product yet), I came across this article on ESPN’s Page 2. Now, I’m a Boston guy at heart. [...]

Standing-room only for today’s flight

Posted 2 years ago, at the end of April

Just when you think the big guys getting us around the world at 600mph can’t do anything dumber, they come up with an idea like this…
Airbus denies report it has plans for standing room on jets (from CNN Apr. 25, 2006)