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  • I saw a landscaping truck named "Marquis de Sod". According to Google, this is a popular name for landscaping companies. (It also appears in Thomas Pynchon's "Vineland".)
  • Hell is an airport.
  • Q: Why is this blog post different from every other blog post? A: You're reading this one right now.
  • "Every thing with eyes has some amount of eyes." --- They Might be Giants, Triops has three eyes
  • In the future, you will like things that you currently do not like.
  • Math is the science of agreeing on things.
  • I recently discovered this masterpiece.
  • Wear a shirt that says "You Are Amazing!" and smile at everyone. See what happens.
  • Doing math research is like sculpting with a block of knotty pine. The mathematician must have a shape in mind to begin with, but the wood might have other ideas. The extent to which the finished sculpture reflects the mathematician's intention is called "creation" and the extent to which it reflects the wood's intention is called "discovery".
  • Listen to this in the car.
  • Panhandler at an intersection: "Family killed by ninja's. Need money for kung fu lessons."
  • Have you run out of rational things to read? Click here. Example: "I am, I could be interpreted as standard Sun and alone, but It, has anyone vaguely any rants, to do a hash marks and run a general for file, servers which then I want to the foul beast and can be that great!"
  • I can't emphasize enough how good the books of John Stillwell are.
  • In retrospect, SLOAN is my favorite band. (Or maybe SPOON.)
  • I miss the Beck from Odelay, Mutations and Midnite Vultures. Time for a reboot.
  • "A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.'" --- G.H. Hardy
  • Song of the Day: Little Bird (feat. Becca Stevens)
  • New game: Snake Chomp! Move the snake in a direction. If there's a ham he'll chomp it.
  • Rec: Wizard People, Dear Reader.
  • "Uh oh, I think I smell a puma." --- a tapir
  • Rec: Deerhoof!
  • "On the other hand, as you read this, the person who gave the go-ahead to Fast Five, the (I hate to prejudge, but...) utterly unnecessary fifth installment in the Vin Diesel-Paul Walker epic The Fast and the Furious, is sleeping soundly right now, possibly even at his desk." --- Mark Harris, in GQ Feb 2011
  • Miami Drivers: Here's a trick. Pull up to the second pump at the gas station. Then twice as many people can fill up at the same time!
  • Overheard on campus.
    Girl: I just want to do cool things all the time.
    Boy: Marry rich.
  • IMAGINEXT Big Foot the Monster: He can throw a ball, lift weights, dream, walk, talk, rap and more! Ages 3-up.
  • "If we could gather all the electric eels from all around the world we would be able to light up an unimaginably large Christmas tree. I'd love to see the huge flash of light it made on the Earth from somewhere else in the universe." ---Kazuhiko Minawa
  • Miami Drivers: I love you, but please stop crashing into things!
  • The easy grip sport bottle from Ozarka® is designed to fit naturally in your hand, and in your life.
  • Rec: Sufjan Stevens has a new album out today.
  • Rec: Read anything by John Stillwell.
  • Overheard on campus.
    Guy 1: You know, I really like Paul Walker. I have to admit.
    Guy 2: He's a great actor.
    Guy 1: I wouldn't say that.
  • ``What is this extraordinarily wiggly phenomenon? It seems to wiggle all over the place!'' --- Alan Watts
  • As far as I can tell, car alarms are good only for detecting thunder.
  • My son suffers male pattern baldness at a tender age. He looks like a young Robert Duvall.
  • I love this clock. Also, my birthday is February 26.
  • Overheard in a Filipino fast-food restaurant called Jollibee while eating spaghetti with hot dog sauce.
    Kid 1: Do you believe in the Loch Ness monster?
    Kid 2: Yes.
    Kid 1: Me too. There's been lots of sightings.
  • Definition of 'city': Place where you can keep a mistress and buy a violin.
  • We thought it only reasonable to give you fair warning about our new Smart Roast coffee. It's not your everyday kind of hotel coffee. Rather, you may think you have wandered into some pricey little coffee boutique where you have to cash in the savings bonds your grandmother gave you when you turned 12 to afford a cup. And refills? I don't think so.
  • For countless ages mankind has been plagued by wizards.
  • A remote starter for a car---the car starts when you wink at it.
  • Rumble strips on the road could make music. Every highway could have its own theme song.
  • Click here to transfer all of your dollars to my account.
  • Stephen Colbert: "A new Pew research report claims that nearly one in four people in the world are Muslim. And when you consider that the world is 70 percent covered by water, that can only mean one thing: Aqua Muslims!"
  • Seen in Miami: A boy driving a brand new Scion with an Apple sticker. He threw a cigarette wrapper out the window, took a few exaggerated puffs, fixed his bangs in the rear view.
  • Seen in Minneapolis: An old lady walking a dog, pushing her wheelchair backwards with one foot, smoking a cigarette.
  • Lion and Man -- Can Both Win?
  • A man, a can, a plan, a canal: Panacanama.