soapbox

Point and counterpoint:

Crazy: There’s a yahoo news story right now about a grandma who was selling heroin in LA and using her 11 year old grand daughter as a lookout. She got caught. Here’s the thing though, “grandma” was 39 years old. Do the math: 39-11=28 years. And you have to fit two generations in there.

Not so crazy: Senator Ted Stevens is in a bit of trouble because it’s not exactly clear who paid the bills for his house renovation. Of course, Mr. “Series of Tubes” is about as dirty as they get in the senate so it’s about time.

Scientists have finally isolated a gene (LRRTM1) that appears to increase the odds of being left-handed by inverting the functions of each side of the brain – one side controlling speech and language and the other governing emotion/creativity/etc.

So, all I need is a bit dose of  stem cells, a bit of gene therapy, and I could finally be normal!

Well, over the weekend I went to the Apple Store and got a new little toy. It turns out to be a good thing since the HD in my laptop gave up the ghost this morning.

Anyway, first iPhone post!

…and I figure the first three or four episodes of The Big Bang Theory might actually be sometimes funny to the sort of folks who read this blog.

I’ll probably make sure to catch an episode or two, especially since both of the male leads look (and their characters sort of act) like old friends of mine. More details here.

Hooray Scientists-as-Comedy-Props! Hooray TV!

Also, just to set the record straight, the greatest fictional scientist ever title belongs to none other than this man. Bring on the banana sharpeners!

Hah!

Another link.

OUCH – How NOT To Work Out. Video

It’s a link post, but funny all the same.

15 Unfortunately Placed Ads

You’re a geek if you understand the last one.

I don’t know how much more there is to say. It’s a serious problem though when you just get out of rehab and then get arrested for chasing a car with your car while drunk with cocaine in your pocket.

Her mugshot makes it look like a lot of that cocaine might have already been used too.

It kind of makes me wonder if a lot of these people (both celebrity and non-celebrity) should be shipped off to communes in the woods where they just don’t have access to anything really. Let them dry out for a year or two. Of course, you can’t really hold a person back from self destruction.