Category Archives: Humor

With apologies to The Who

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Eric

Yet another great xkcd strip.

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Students’ evaluations of instructors

Posted on March 31, 2007 by Eric

How would Socrates’ students evaluate him?  [via GMSV]

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The truth is out there!

Posted on March 23, 2007 by Eric

Waaaay out there! Mysteriousnesses:  Atlantis [They make you watch a brief advertisement first.]

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More about e than you really wanted to know

Posted on March 23, 2007 by Eric

Blind Date [via MaplePrimes]

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The Onion: Still America’s Finest News Source

Posted on October 20, 2006 by Eric

Just as The Daily Show has been found to be as substantive as network news, The Onion is as substantive as traditional newspapers.  Case in point:  the Onion’s coverage of the North Korean nuclear test.

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F&SF Competition #73 Entry

Posted on October 2, 2006 by Eric

Fantasy and Science Fiction has resumed their competition series, and the latest challenge is to combine the title of a genre book or story with another name, and describing the plot of the combined work. I’ve never entered the competitions … Continue reading →

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Confused about the snacks in our vending machine

Posted on August 9, 2006 by Eric

A few weeks ago, I tried the pound cake, but it was only 4.5 ounces. Yesterday I tried the coffee cake, but it didn’t taste anything like coffee. Today the machine has marble cake, but there aren’t any marbles in … Continue reading →

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Wishful thinking

Posted on August 1, 2006 by Eric

The Onion reports that Ken Lay’s corpse has been sentenced to 45 years in prison. Death’s too good for him; it’s a shame that we can’t revive him and make him do time.

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Poor translation

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Eric

Seen in the list of warnings in an application note for a Futaba vacuum fluorescent display module: The module should be abolished as the factory waste. Geez, why do they bother making it if it should be abolished?

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Seen in a sig

Posted on July 2, 2006 by Eric

If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?

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