Ravings of an Intermittent Fool

Fecundity

2008-06-26T10:16:43Z

Fecundity - The quality or power of producing abundantly; fruitfulness or fertility.

Instant Rimshot

2008-06-25T07:15:22Z

In the vein of sites that only about a single small thing like Guillemets, I present you Instant Rimshot.

Spring 2008 Flowers

2008-06-23T05:54:16Z

I am very behind in posting these "Spring photos" since it is already summer. Anyways, here is a flower from outside the house. More flowers available in the gallery.

Nulliparous

2008-06-10T05:10:22Z

Nulliparous - of, relating to, or being a female that has not borne offspring

Looping Water Slide

2008-06-03T05:27:33Z

Almost too crazy to believe but there was a water park in New Jersey that had a looping water slide. It is Wikipedia but there are footnotes and the park sounded pretty scary stupid enough to try and install such a ride. Not sure you could pay me enough to try something like that.

Popular TiVoed Shows Don't Mean More Commerical Watched

2008-06-01T16:44:19Z

In what is fairly obvious (but they do have empirical data), the CEO of TiVo mentioned that the most recorded (and thus popular) shows don't equate to the most commercials being watched. This makes sense that if you are into a show you are going to be watching intensely and if you are watching intensely you will be focused on skipping the commercial when the come on to interrupt the show. What I think would be more interesting is if they listed the shows in which the commercials are skipped the least. Outside of news and weather, it really makes sense to timeshift everything you watch if you can (I suppose there are some weirdos out there that have a special thing for Weather on the 8s). If I had to guess which shows were most recorded but don't have the commercials skipped it would be shows intended for small children who haven't learned of the power of fast forwarding or for shows that people run as background white noise. The later should be concerning to advertisers because they eyeballs they are paying for might not really be paying attention.

Baklava

2008-05-25T13:33:39Z

My family is visiting this holiday weekend and my mother shows up with a tray of homemade baklava. This isn't going to be good for my weight loss at all. The homemade coconut cream pie isn't going to help either. Thankfully the 12 hours or so that we worked outside yesterday will probably help keep some of those calories off. When I get the recipe I will post it.

One Tough Woman

2008-05-20T03:40:12Z

You know you are tough as nails when you can perform a self-cesarean section and survive.

Sophistry

2008-05-18T15:10:20Z

Sophistry - a subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation.

Graffiti Art Comes to Life

2008-05-15T00:41:18Z

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo. I have no frame of reference for this, but I imagine that LSD trips are something like this. This is oddly amazing and for some reason very creepy at the same time.

Guillemets

2008-05-14T05:01:03Z

Someone really likes Guillemets so much so that they have registered http://laquo.net and http://raquo.net. «An odd obsession to say the least»

Web Based Periodic Table of Elements

2008-05-13T04:06:19Z

Came across this web based Periodic Table of Elements today and I must say I am impressed. In a succicent fashion they present the chart with links to each element that include some background details, pictures and stats. Its perfect for finding out that Carbon in German is Kohlenstoff or the history of Argon. Lots of fun stuff in here and I could easily lose a bunch of time in here clicking around and learning elemental facts.

Industrial Robot Ride

2008-05-12T01:25:21Z

I have to say, I think this would one scary ass ride. I really hope the person programming this thing knows what they are doing because the rider's head looks like it comes very close to the ground. That would freak me out to say the least.

New Grass is Growing

2008-05-10T11:38:55Z

I'm just as shocked as you are to see the grass seed I planted actually turning into something green. I just hope that it continues to grow.

Fun with Headlines

2008-05-09T01:12:37Z

Man, the staff at the BBC News is certainly having a good time today. Punny headlines like this don't get made everyday. I think this one is even better than Headless Body in Topless Bar.