December 2011
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Dec 31st
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Swedish Wikipedia does not approve of the Outlaw Jimmy Wales.
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Dec 29th
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“In English they say “Try to take over the world”, but in German it...”
– The German’s dissection of interlingual variations of “Pinky and the Brain”.  I can’t quite write out the lilt of the accent—it is possible, but I am no Henry Higgins (Nor Henry Huggins)—but if you imagine this coming out of the mouth of Heidi Klum, you may be...
Dec 28th
“GOLDMINEFIELD!”
– 201112271424: A new favorite metaphor has been established.
Dec 27th
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The 12 Days Of Christmas - A Lesson In How A... →
“We do not wish to ruin the fun of the holidays. But, if you want to appraise something, you need to do it right.” There is a clear voice in this analysis and it kills me a little that there is no byline because I am terribly curious how the author would misspell “Van Hœt”.
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New Local Monkey Friends? →
“Our current family consists of 5 monkeys. They have been donated for various reasons, ranging from retired organ grinder monkeys, unsuccessful pets, and some have even been retired from laboratories. Each of them came with their special personalities, which have been shaped by past life experiences, both good and bad.” I imagine the monkey who was Robert Oppenheimer in a past...
Dec 24th
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I wish I could say that Curious Giorgio and the Infinite Discoteca was a result of a cold medicine or some such, but the fact of the matter is it was an idea that was soberly conceived in an airplane bathroom (the mile-high clubhouse!) last week and birthed at my desk while waiting for a crane to cease its looming over my laboratory causing safety to lock us out of the whole corridor.  LOOMING! I...
Dec 23rd
"Dave Catermanis was born in a litter of 7... →
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“There’s nothing you could say that would make me love you less, but right...”
– In all likelihood, ME by this point in the extended gathering timeline.
Dec 18th
Queued Dispatch From South of the Border
ALL OF THE COKES ARE MEXICAN COKES STOP MY GENETIC PREDISPOSITIONS ARE KICKING IN STOP SO ELIPSES SLEEPY STOP BEING MEXICAN IS LIKE EMPHASIS WEARING A POPPY FIELD END EMPHASIS STOP YOU ARE VERY GREAT STOP 1000 PESOS NO DO NOT MAKE THE 3 AMIGOS TELEGRAPH JOKE STOP HMM STOP OPEN PAREN JUST JOKING ABOUT THE FIELD OF POPPIES THING STOP ADD IN AN APPROPRIATELY PLACED QUOTE SOMETIMES UNQUOTE TO...
Dec 17th
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Dec 14th
“Another thing one notices in China is the turds. “Oh please,”...”
– BizarrOwen Meany:  So easy to like. (CMC: the reference to repeated failures to finish AP4OM should have in no way made it seem like I have ever finished it.  Because I haven’t.  I met Irving and panicked and ran away  before his voice could seed itself, I think you know that story,...
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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"Urinal Cakes and Other Lavatorial Dessert...
And you think to yourself, “Is THIS what scientists do all day?”  And I say to you, “Mostly, my friend.  Mostly.” And you wonder how I knew to say that. It’s very complex.
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Say it soft and it's almost like praying →
…It originates in the stomach or upper part of the small intestine as muscles contract to move food and digestive juices down the gastrointestinal tract and functions as a sort of intestinal “housecleaning”. 1.  It is never uninteresting to me when a concept I like has a name I like.  And a good name or a good concept can sometimes redeem the other, just by virtue of...
Dec 12th
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A Non-Provocative Thing About Non-Native Tongues
(ME describes something as verboten)
DEU: You speak German?
ME: Only the important words.
DEU: Fallgatter, Verboten, what other ones have you used with me?
ME: One can get pretty far with "forbidden" and "portcullis".
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Dec 7th
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Each of them embodies a pillar of the Six Sigma business philosophy: teamwork, insight, brutality, male enhancement, hand shakefulness, and playhard. Glorious.
Dec 6th
“I like that you’re stealing digital books—-it takes money out of the...”
– On one hand, I feel a little bad for having disappointed WBH, probably my favorite childhood-friend-turned-sometimes-author-and-sometimes-book-store-staff-person.  On the other hand, something tickles me about his response. (In my pattern of only confessing relevant sins, when we were doing a...
Dec 6th
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“We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need...”
– Wrong again, Satir!
Dec 4th
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“At the age of 5, children ask 120 questions a day, at age 6 they ask only 60...”
– Sketchy statistics that are vaguely remembered, interesting, but that I can’t find primary research on. 
Dec 4th
Dec 2nd
More Robot Kin than Robot Kind
[CMC]: I was mean to a girl at lunch
[CMC]: she said she was sick and then coughed IN THE LUNCHROOM
[me]: mean? tell me more, plastiCMC!
[CMC]: so I said "so why are you here contaminating the workplace?"
[CMC]: people did not react positively to my saying that
[me]: whoops
[CMC]: but forreals, like, stop coughing in my food, sicklady
[me]: I say that to sick people all the time, but to be fair, scientists don't have feelings.
[me]: (joke!)
[me]: (sorta!)
[CMC]: no, they are like robots
[me]: bloop bloo a bloo.
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