January 2011
drewtoothpaste on Etsy →
Only $77 for my name spelled out in oyster crackers? I’m in.
Maxi-Matic EBK-200 Elite Cuisine 3-in-1 Breakfast... →
This thing looks awesome.
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Owen: What has besmirched you?
Heather: That word "besmirch" just besmirched me.
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Ryan: Did you see Saw?
Dwight: Of course I seesaw. Mose and I seesaw all the time.
Ryan: No, uh, the movie. Did you see the movie Saw?
Dwight: Oh, yeah. Great film. Almost as fun as going on a seesaw.
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“[Provost Jerry] Gilbert said the reason MSU did not have to make up the canceled...”
– SATURDAY SCHOOL
Finally, buried in a Reflector article, the reason we have to make up a snow day is given. That’s all I wanted. I hate the idea of Saturday school, but at least I know now why we have to do it.
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Revision to the Final Exam schedule change... →
Sweet Jesus, the Mississippi State brass needs to figure out a final answer before announcing a bunch of options.
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Schedule adjustment announced for Jan. 10 snow day... →
How strange. Oh well, smarter minds than I are working on this issue.
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Is Butter Good For You?
fakescience:
How iPad Could Transform the TV-Watching... →
kylewrather:
rmpenguino:
Brilliant! I’ve had this complaint dozens of times while watching TV; why don’t they list or provide links to some of the stuff which was part of this program? The CW and previously the WB provide a call out for music feature in certain shows, but what about the cars, clothes, furniture, gadgets, etc? Hopefully something like this gets off the ground and we can have...
Declarative vs Imperative
I just had a random memory from junior high school.
Our English teacher was talking about the four types of sentences: declarative, interrogative, exclamatory and imperative. She was giving us examples of each.
“OK, so an example of a declarative sentence is, ‘The barn is red,’ or, ‘Go shut the door’.”
The last one was not a declarative sentence. I...
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Welcome to Our STATE →
Great article over at Bulldawg Junction about Mississippi State’s current dominance in the state and the new attitude and culture that comes with being successful.
“It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he...”
– Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a... →
“Is this arbitrary? Sure it is. But so are a lot of our conventions for writing. It’s arbitrary that we write shop instead of shoppe, or phone instead of fone, or that we use ! to emphasize a sentence rather than %. We adopted these standards because practitioners of publishing—writers, editors, typographers, and others—settled on them after decades of experience. Among their rules was...
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“Soon, however, large patches of crude oil [from the Deepwater Horizon rig] are...”
– Dave Barry - 2010 Year in Review
Watch7 Billion Reasons to Think About 7 Billion :: National Geographic
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“But the big sports story is the decision by LeBron James, announced in a...”
– Dave Barry - 2010 Year in Review
“If you want, I can teach you how to make a bomb out of a toilet paper roll and a...”
– Dale Gribble - King of the Hill
Bread Maker
Mom: Your dentist died. No appt next week. I’ll find u new one. I learned how to make bread!!
Paper Trail - McSweeney's Internet Tendency →
Paper Trail by Ben Greenman
I just recently started following McSweeney’s. It took me a while to get into the stuff being published on the site, but most of it is funny.
WatchThree Minutes
Epic.
“A thrilling, down-to-the-wire BCS National Championship game between Auburn and...”
– Great Game, Sport, Civilization Ruined By Speaking Of Phrase ‘This Is For All The Tostitos®’ :: The Onion
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“This is for all the Tostitos!”
– Brent Musburger, ESPN Announcer, crazed semi-incoherent old man (via kylewrather)
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