Thursday miscellanea #45

What the hell does Syfy mean?  Great move, morons. Blogroll addition:  Awkward Family Photos (hat tip, Saintseester).  This is a reliable laugh generator.  I’m simultaneously delighted and appalled at how prolific it is. Barack Obama recently nominated Sonia Sotomayor, who has a vagina and was born to poor Puerto Rican immigrants, to the Supreme Court.  … Read more

Boxed in, pleasantly

As crazy as day-to-day can get, Lea and I really do try hard to stop and count our blessings once in a while. We talk about having healthy, well-adjusted children.  We talk about Lea being a stay-at-home mom.  We talk about still being into each other, 15 years into our relationship and 12 into our … Read more

Please don’t worry about the mobile, autonomous gunship that eats people

Hey, how about a steam-powered robot that eats organic material for fuel? You know—plants?  Old furniture?  People (dead ones are, ah, suggested)? Check out this passage from the article (apparently offered without tongue in cheek): The advantages to the military are that the robot would be extremely flexible in fuel sources and could roam on … Read more

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