What we need is a trojan performer who gets up to a level where they get to perform an entire song without getting cut off, and then one day they come in with a song about how Simon is a jerk, or how they’re proud to have incited the rudest comment he ever made.
In his [...]

Here’s a copy of an email I sent to Car Talk a little bit back:
If you are going to continue recommending the Dope Slap on a regular basis, it behooves you to offer a tutorial covering basic dope slapping techniques. For example:
The irritating dope slap is used to simply annoy the harmless dope. It is [...]

This morning at breakfast, I had a mental arc related to multitasking. I was shoveling food into my son’s mouth with his little baby spoon and into mine with my man-sized tablespoon. Here’s how I related it to multitasking:
Using a different spoon (pipeline) for each application (mouth) requires a context switch (putting one spoon down [...]

A few phrases I am wont to use with my one year old:
When he’s screaming during a meal: “Less whine, more dine!”
When he’s screaming at bedtime: “Less scream, more dream!”
When he’s screaming rather than communicating: “Less squawk, more talk!”
He’s a great little boy, but it’ll be nice when he learns to talk…until he starts playing [...]

“Five Nines” of up-time for a system isn’t so hard to achieve as long as you don’t define it as 99.999% availability. Here’s a little comic to illustrate:

“Our profits are growing exponentially!” Sounds great, right? Not necessarily. Here’s a little one frame comic I drew to show how exponential profit growth can actually be a bad thing.

I wonder if the producers of the new TV show “LAX” had trouble recruiting actors, considering that anyone who ever leaves the show is going to be an “Ex-LAX star”.
BTW, I haven’t seen the show, and probably won’t–I don’t watch a lot of TV.

If breast cancer is detected using mammograms, is prostate cancer detected using sirograms? And will this entry affect the Google ads that appear on this page?

If a politician speaks in the forest, and no one is there to hear him, is he still a liar?

I noticed some traffic coming in from a Korean site to one of my blog entries today. I don’t read Korean, so I popped the text into Sherlock for translation, and this is what I got:
This will be contradictory conduct of inside oneself? Yesterday
“against” ‘ a reflection or an expansion be ‘ as it answered [...]