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Friday, October 15, 2010

Tech Support

I recently had someone ask me to go get a computer and turn it on so I could restart it. He refused to move further in the script until I said I had done that.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Paradise City

Take me down to the paradise municipality / where the grass is mauve and the girls aren't fromthisreality.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Pumpkin Carving

The Banach-Tarski theorem was actually first developed by King Solomon, but his gruesome attempts to apply it set back set theory for centuries.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Airfoil

This is a fun explanation to prepare your kids for; it's common and totally wrong. Good lines include 'why does the air have to travel on both sides at the same time?' and 'I saw the Wright brothers plane and those wings were curved the same on the top and bottom!'

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Online Communities 2

Best trivia I learned while working on this: 'Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD?' Then you wait for the listener to do a double-take.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Golden Hammer

Took me five tries to find the right one, but I managed to salvage our night out--if not the boat--in the end.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Beautiful Dream

Lucky. In MY dream, all the people who grew up loving The Giving Tree paired up with all the students who had weird dreams after reading The Metamorphosis. That one was more confusing.