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View ArticleThe Bills
(Apologies to Edgar Allen Poe) I Tear the envelopes, read the bills- Stupid bills! What a world of melancholy their advent instills! Oh they stink, stink, stink, In my icy grip of fright! While the...
View ArticleThe Bills II
Again, apologies to Edgar Allen Poe :-) II. Read the moldy water bills, Grimy bills! What a world of drippiness their damp content refills! Dew on barmy head alights How the drippings give me frights!...
View ArticleThe Bills III
III Here are lame, atrocious bills- Bogus bills! Of attempt at trickery, their stationery smells! With a sneaky sneer of spite How they seem almost alright! To unlucky souls they say "Here's what you...
View ArticleBathed in Bubble Wrap
I won! In Bubble Wrap had a quick contest today to see who could send in the first iBW-themed haiku, the winner getting a copy of The Big Moo. Here's my entry, which turned out to be first: Sleep...
View Article…and I thought it was because “Jackass” was taken!
Rogers Cadenhead points out today that the title character of the TV series "House" bears obviously intentional similaries to Sherlock Holmes, thus the name "House". And here I thought they'd called...
View Article“White And Nerdy” Green Screen With Donny Osmond
I'm not one to spend a lot of time watching YouTube videos, but videos like this make me wonder whether I'm missing more than I realized. This is the first take of Weird Al and Donny Osmond in front of...
View ArticlePerspective Lines Are Not Straight
Imagine you're facing a wall that stretches forever off in either direction. We all know that the further parts of the wall look smaller than the closer parts. That's called "perspective". We tend to...
View ArticleLazyWeb, Name That Movie!
Every once in a while, I remember this movie I saw on TV a few times when I was a kid, but I can never remember what it was called. LazyWeb, help! And while you're at it, I've got another one. Here's...
View ArticleHow to Turn a Poem Into a Computer
Copyblogger is running a haiku writing contest and giving away a MacBook Air, Product Launch Formula 2.0, and the Teaching Sells online training program. I want the MacBook! To that end, I've written a...
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