Well, that escalated quickly. I want to thank all the folks who dove in on the discussion around Wednesday’s comic: There were a lot of great points made and some great new words thrown around. I woke up this morning to find the comic unintentionally analogous to recent events, which I’ll get in to in [...]
Everybody wants Einstein on their team. Why not? It says good things about your team to have Einstein on it. This posthumous playground metaphor can be observed in arguments over whether he was an atheist or a deist, quote launching contests where he is shown to be either critical or favoring of religion, whether or [...]
Growing up in a small Italian-catholic area, I didn’t know any other Japanese people. Many of you who know me, and the rest that probably deduced why I have a funny name, know that I’m half Japanese. I hated my name because nobody could ever pronounce it right and the cleverest derogatory nickname bullies could come [...]
Ha HA… taxonomy humor! I’m both ashamed and proud to have come up with this joke at the Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History on a recent trip. Ashamed at such use of bro-loquiallism, but proud of the geekiness of it. As for the title, perhaps it is too attention [...]
PZ Myers of Pharyngula posted this up on his blog and it really hooked me. I never really listen to anything that might be considered as having ‘phat rhymes’ unless its funny, geeky, or comes with a heaping spoonful of irony. But between the beautiful direction of the video and really elegant subject matter, I [...]
Yesterday musician, poet, comedian, and skeptic Tim Minchin announced that he would be playing in New York City on May 4th. Now that my place amongst the audience is guaranteed, I can announce to all of you that tickets are on sale NOW at Livenation.com If you’ve never heard of Tim, shame on you. He [...]
Let it be known that as of January 17th, 2011: ‘Carl Sagan‘, or in this case ‘Sagan‘, can now be used as a verb. To Sagan is to wistfully ponder upon or wax poetic about the cosmos. Webster’s Dictionary, take note. What with the recent Astrology news, I scrapped the previous astrology comic I had [...]