Monthly Archives: December 2014

Anecdotal evidence suggests that there is a dividing line between high trait psychoticism and full-blown psychosis, as in people who wander the streets holding plastic grocery bags full of their own feces. Intuition tells me that this line is something … Continue reading →

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2014. If it were a … Continue reading →

I really enjoy Between the Buried And Me about 75% of the time, and the rest of the time I put up with their stupid thrashy nonsense to get to the good bits. This is a song that’s almost all … Continue reading →

I work with a quadriplegic whose spinal nerves were almost but not quite severed, so he’s been doing pretty intensive physical therapy to restore his ability to walk, move his fingers, arms, etc. Yesterday, he had a big family Christmas … Continue reading →

Athlete’s foot is a recurring problem for me, and has been for as long as I’ve worked on my feet full-time. As such, I’m more or less treating it all of the time. Here’s what works best: at night, sleep … Continue reading →

And a Merry Christmas to the rest of you weirdos.

I like to do this sort of thing nearabouts the year’s end. Here’s why, and here’s the accompanying comic. Fantastic. So! Looking back, I can’t find the retrospective thingy from last year because I was even more ridiculously disorganized back … Continue reading →

There’s a superstition out there that lightning never strikes the same place twice. This is stupid. The Empire State Building averages 25 lightning strikes per year, usually in the same spot: a lightning rod. The idea behind podrag’s Engzig website … Continue reading →

Rereading wikis on occipital buns and such again. I’ve been piecing together some thoughts in response to an imaginary critic, who is asking “Why do you believe the four major brain lobes in homo sapiens are survivors of different human … Continue reading →

H/T Steve Sailer … Two people approached the teenager from behind as he was walking and talking on his cell phone, according to a police report that said one of them “placed his arm around the victim’s neck in a … Continue reading →