Monthly Archives: April 2012

…in post-colonial Africa…. [… For years, … [t]rips to the supermarket required ridiculous boxloads of cash. By January 2009, the country was churning out bills worth 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollars, which were soon so worthless they would not buy a … Continue reading →

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, “Where’s the self-help section?” She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. ————– No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of … Continue reading →

Almost. Actually, it’s in Iran. If you see those Marines…tell them you are lost! http://www.hoax-slayer.com/troglodytic-village.shtml [via JFD] == PT Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: A VILLAGE IN AFGHANISTAN ~ This is really unbelievable~ you would never know this … Continue reading →

I am most of the way through a 46-hour audiobook on the history of Christianity. The author seems sympathetic to his subject but even though I was raised a Christian, this book only increases my already accelerating departure from the … Continue reading →

I mean, after we’ve spent $2,000,000,000 every week for, oh, ten years in Afghanistan, very soon it should start to be much more like Ohio there, right? We just need to start killing the Other Guys more than ourselves. That’s … Continue reading →

[from A Word A Day] == PT Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: A classic is one relating to Michael Foot, British Labour party politician. When he was put in charge of a nuclear disarmament group The Times ran … Continue reading →

Obviously, they still need more gifts…. [via Guido] == PT Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message:

I’m watching a true crime show about a kidnaping. The kidnapers sent a message (very late in this game, hardly the first message) and the police found the location from which the call was made as this information–longitude, latitude, etc.–(metadata) … Continue reading →

Here’s The Rest Of The Story…. [via Pope Jones] == PT Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: Subject: For the engineers We’ve always been taught to flow chart our work. Here’s probably the last one we’ll ever need.

== PT Sent from my iPad