Category Archives: Jack Handy

A few weeks ago, I was out driving when by purest chance I encountered the perfect situation for a maximum acceleration run. My car is a 2004 “Terminator” Cobra, and while it’s quite fast, it can be a little tricky … Continue reading →

This is the world’s fastest computer. Really. Ok, not really. But it would have been the world’s fastest computer in 1989. Not pretty fast. Not world-class. The fastest. Faster than anything owned by any government in the world. I can’t … Continue reading →

Today, a little rant in service to an attempt to quash one of the more irritating errors seen on the internet: the inversion of the proper order of “much less” phrases. “Much less” phrases appear in sentences such as: “The … Continue reading →

Dave Gibbons (by and large) calls them “comic books”. I think you can safely drop the “graphic novel” pretension, fanboy.

The four stages of Valentine’s Day emotion: So ronery. Yay! A chance to show my snuggle-wumps how much I wuv her! ::Stress:: Yay! This is all some other chump’s problem! ::Skips down street::

Please read this brief except from the Wikipedia entry on the Castle Bravo nuclear test: The yield of 15 megatons was two and a half times what was expected. The cause of the high yield was a theoretical error made … Continue reading →

So, I updated from the old, default “Kubrick” theme to … the new, default “Twenty Ten” theme. Yep, still cheap. Anyway, I hope you like it. I think I’ve got most of the necessary tweaks moved over, but may be … Continue reading →

From a letter Jay quotes at The Corner: “A business partner and friend in Taipei started talking one day about his family. His parents fled in ’49. Much as Great Depression Americans tend to save money, Chinese Taiwanese of a … Continue reading →

Let me advance a heterodox idea: You can’t save. More precisely, you can’t provide for tomorrow’s consumption today with nearly as much certainty as you think you can. Most of what we consider “saving” is really just a hash of … Continue reading →

Editorial note: This is a little story from my past. It has no great significance, I just find it amusing. My first car was a 1984 Mustang. It was a serviceable enough car as the factory had built it, but … Continue reading →