I would love to do this!

XKCD: Seat Selection

XKCD: Seat Selection

aviation · comic · funny · humor · xkcd

This is definitely the funniest thing I’ve seen all day (it’s still morning).

Expand the power

This is, of course, a binomial expansion problem. The following is the correct answer.

Wikipedia: binomial expansion

I love the humor this student resorts to when they are stuck. It reminds me of my favorite comic.

There are more funny answers at: Huffington Post: The Funniest Kids Test Answers Of All Time.

funny · humor · math · test

The Mind of a Web Developer: An Illustrated Diagram
Matt, Mingle2, June 13, 2007

The Mind of a Web Developer

humor · programming · web development

This is just as instructive if you replace “Santa” with “God”.

Wondermark #474; In which you better Watch Out, December 23, 2008

Be good for goodness' sake

god · morality · philosophy · religion · santa · wondermark

Someone emailed this to me. I thought it was good enough to post for your enjoyment.

Jose Cuervo Christmas Cookies

1 cup of water
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup or brown sugar
4 large eggs
1 cup nuts
2 cups of dried fruit
1 bottle Jose Cuervo Tequila

Sample the Cuervo to check quality.

Take a large bowl, check the Cuervo again, to be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.

Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.

Add one peastoon of sugar. Beat again. At this point, it’s best to make sure the Cuervo is still ok, try another cup just in case.

Turn off the mixerer thingy.

Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.

Pick the frigging fruit off the floor.

Mix on the turner.

If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaters just pry it loose with a drewscriver.

Sample the Cuervo to check for tonsisticity.

Next, sift two cups of salt, or something. Who geeves a sheet. Check the Jose Cuervo. Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.

Add one table.

Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find.

Greash the oven.

Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.

Don’t forget to beat off the turner.

Finally, throw the bowl through the window, finish the Cose Juervo and make sure to put the stove in the wishdasher.

Cherry Mistmas !

christmas · email · funny · humor · recipe

This afternoon I selected a Stanford University Philosophy show by Professor Robert Harrison titled “Entitled Opinions About Life and Literature” from my iPhone to keep myself engaged during the commute home. I love the introduction, by way of unapologetic warning.

René Girard on Ritual Sacrifice and the Scapegoat (October 4, 2005)

Warning: The following is an unadulterated and unusually concentrated intellectual discussion. It should be avoided by anyone who does not have a very high tolerance for thinking. If you have an aversion to the exchange of ideas, if you’re deficient in curiosity, if you suffer from common American anti-intellectualism, then please tune out now.

This show promotes the narcotic of intelligent conversation. It takes us into the garden and seats us at the banquet table of ideas, where we feast on the bread of angels: clear and distinct thinking, intuitive analysis, and an enriched use of English. We bring them all to bear on the pursuit of self knowledge.

So be warned: we don’t dumb things down around here. We ratchet up and let it rip.

intelligence · itunesu · philosophy · stanford

From xkcd. This is great!

xkcd: Fall Foliage

cartoon · comic · fall foliage · funny · humor · photography · photoshop

Love this! Thanks, Jason.

xkcd: Exploits of a Mom

Confused? Read this.

Be sure to check out xkcd: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language. Great stuff over there!

comic · funny · geek · humor · sql injection

What is that guy doing with those pliars?

Tomas Munita for The New York Times

Keeping New of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia
Richard Pérez-Peña, NY Times, June 28, 2009

afghanistan · funny · humor · ny times

This past week I spend two days photographing parishioners at Zion Church Ministries in Everett, Massachusetts. They are a fun, lively and beautiful bunch of people.

This woman, Deaconess Lolithea Thompson, wears 14 karat gold fingernails. She had them custom designed and crafted by a jeweler. Each nail is emblazoned with a trinket or patterned texture. One of the thumbnails has a stud through the tip, around which a small gold flower twirls. How cool is that?!

Deaconess Lolithea Thompson - Used with permission

When Lolithea’s natural nails grow out she has to remove the gold nails, trim her natural nails, and re-affix the gold nails. She has had these nails for decades and is quite proud of them.

fingernail · gold · jewelry · photography · portrait