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.


Sunday, April 13, 2008

Coincidence Engine Working Well

10:00 this morning, I'm eating a croissant at the breakfast table and reading a book about canids of the world. I look up, and a red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is running through the neighbors' back yard. It wasn't literally the animal I was reading about at the moment (the bat-eared fox (Otocyon megalotis)), but still ...