The Occasional Joke


Nurse: Patient's name?

Centurion: Marcus Licinius Crassus

Nurse: And his date of birth?

Centurion: 115 BC.

Nurse: All right. And what is he here for?

Centurion: Cataphract surgery.


Saturday, April 12, 2008

Why dogs don't talk to us

Blame the poor quality of the video on the fact that I was just playing around with my Palm Treo and its notoriously poor camera capability, and the poor quality of the voiceover on the notoriously poor quality of my voice. Instead of wasting time with Google's flaky video capability, I'm just going to link to YouTube. Sorry, I didn't want to have to do that, but life is too short.

I do actually own a camcorder, plus a small digital camera with a video capture option, and maybe one of these days I'll post something made with one of them.

Casualty Stats Question Effectiveness of Future Surge

See the revealing stats here. Bring the boys home!

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Odd product of the month

We get all kinds of catalogs. This is from the one that starts every product name with "The," as in "The Completely Useless Backyard Flotation Toy," or "The One Hundred and Fourteenth Atomic Watch We've Listed So Far." Anyway, here's the hands-down strangest thing they offer for sale this time around:

Imagine being the dog on this side of the fence. Or if both pet owners installed these things, each intruding into the other's airspace.