Sitting at lunch with a bunch of my fellow programmers, all of them younger than 30. One of them mentioned that her brother was spending the night at her apartment because he had a road race the next morning. She was in charge of setting the alarm clock and making sure he got to the race on time. I made what I thought was the obvious Seinfeld joke. Nobody got it.
I've discovered a generation gap.
Of Waterstone's "100 best books of the past 25 years", I've read the following:
And, I agree: they were all good.
The rest of the list, though... half of it looks like a list of popular movies of the past 25 years. "Da Vinci Code", "Chocolat", "Memoirs of a Geisha", "Cold Mountain", "Bridget Jones's Diary", "The Beach", Angela's Ashes", "Snow Falling On Cedars", "Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil", "Captain Corelli's Mandolin", "Trainspotting", "Shipping News", "English Patient", "American Psycho", "LA Confidential", "Silence Of The Lambs", "The Bonfire Of The Vanities", etc.. Makes me wonder if the people who voted for these are voting for the book or the movie...
That notoriously liberal rag, the American Conservative, makes a decent argument that the Bush Administration is not simply addicted to lying for political reasons, but instead is made up of visitors from a parallel branch of time.
I encourage them to explore this. I think it holds real promise.
Take that, Chris Daughtry!
If you've been on antibiotics too long, the critters in your colon might not be up to the task of fighting off harmful competitors. You could get a nasty infection from a wee beastie that hates you and is using your vacant bowels as a love nest / poison factory. And then you'd be really sick. What would you do then ?
Well, you could drink someone else's liquefied shit.
Awesome!
Update: hopefully that's not what's in these cans.