http://sciartcoffee.today.com Yet Another Blog of Dubious Origin Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:33:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Another good episode of Mr. Deity, with the trio giving a press conference on the eve of the Superbowl. In addition to the great one-liners, the news scroll at the bottom has some great stuff like: "297 die in plane crash. Mr. Deity: 'Not my fault.'" Yes, if the actual ... http://sciartcoffee.today.com/2007/02/12/in-the-name-of-the-deity-the-boy-and-larry/ So today I picked up some previously-viewed DVDs at Hollywood video: "Crank", District 13" and the much-Internet-hyped "Snakes on a Plane". I watched the latter movie this evening, and it was definitely a lot of fun! Okay, sure, a lot of people perished, but seeing how many snake-related ways it ... http://sciartcoffee.today.com/2007/02/04/snakes-ate-my-dog/ So have you seen that new global warming commercial that likens the concept to a runaway train barreling toward a little girl? Sickening scaremongering at its worst, I gotta say. So why is it the the crisis du jour? This article called "The History of the Global Warming Scare" has ... http://sciartcoffee.today.com/2007/02/02/factor-of-fear/ So I found this interesting quote on the Internet, from a 1932 essay by Winston Churchill: "Fifty years hence we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium." His vision didn't quite come to ... http://sciartcoffee.today.com/2007/01/31/meats-meat-a-mans-gotta-eat/ So I bought a bunch of songs off iTunes recently. One of them is "Heart Failed (In the Back of a Taxi)" by Saint Etienne. For some reason I prefer to hear that line as, "Heart failure in the back of a taxi." I dunno, it just soudns funnier! Another song ... http://sciartcoffee.today.com/2007/01/29/alternate-lyrics/ So this molecular biologist guy just came up with caffeinated donuts and bagels. I'm not really sure it's a good idea to do that to breakfast foods, being as how many people already eat such items alongside a cup of coffee. It's like making coffee with caffeinated water (as seen ... http://sciartcoffee.today.com/2007/01/26/youre-all-hopped-up-on-caffeine/ So I've been watching "American Idol", only because there's nothing else to watch on Tuesday and Wednesday until "Eureka" and "Lost" come back on the schedule. But it never fails to amuse, how many clueless untalented wannabes audition and then are shocked and bent out of shape when they don't ... http://sciartcoffee.today.com/2007/01/25/delusions-of-adequacy/ So I did this online IQ test, but having been scammed once already by an IQ test, I decided to see if this one was legit by simply selecting the last answer to each multiple-choice question. And this is what my score was: Well golly geez, a 97 ... http://sciartcoffee.today.com/2007/01/24/eye-queue/ So I'm sure almost everyone has heard of the case in which a woman spills hot McDonald's coffee on herself and wins almost $3 million. I had always assumed, like pretty much everyone else, that it was the woman's own fault and that she shouldn't have gotten a dime. Well, a ... http://sciartcoffee.today.com/2007/01/22/coffee-spill/ So there's new Jackson-Hewitt commercial out, featuring Ghost Rider! Same question: why does Johnny Blaze need a Money Now loan? What, Satan not paying him enough? :-) http://sciartcoffee.today.com/2007/01/17/ghost-rider-commercial/