April fools
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I was too lazy to come up with anything of my own, so instead I’ll highlight the work of others:
1. Wild Cards Meets Ice & Fire
2. Gmail Custom Time
3. An engagement announcement
#3 was not actually an April Fool’s joke, but it makes me happy nonetheless.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Last night I caught the tail end of an NPR bit, referring to Clarke in the past tense. Not surprising, given his advanced age, but sad nonetheless.
I read “The Star” when I was a kid; it was included in one of the anthologies my mom owned. It’s not Clarke’s best known work, but it’s the one I always think of first when I think of him—or, for that matter, the science fiction field.
When ephemera isn’t
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Earlier this week, a friend wore this T-shirt. It’s a cute shirt, an obvious reference to Portal (which I still have not gotten around to playing), even if it implicates the cake itself. In short, ephemera threads.
And I realized that my internal editor doesn’t necessarily screen for relevance. I suspect “the cake is a lie” will remain part of my vocabulary, just as I will occasionally comment that “Kenya’s got lions.” It’s a curious way of dating yourself. It doesn’t necessarily imply anything about when you started, just where you were at a certain point. The mind doesn’t stagnate.
Pop culture doesn’t cycle. It accretes.
Six-legged octopus
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Apparently Henry is down two limbs because of a birth defect.
Sing like a pirate day
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It seems like the Talk Like A Pirate crew messed up by picking a day in September. February 29 is a much better choice. I guess they were willing to sacrifice G&S coolness in favor of quantity (to keep up with the ninjas, one presumes).
Cheeseburger in paradise
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Where paradise is a can. Ah, the genius of German cuisine.
Let the lolcatting begin.
Why yes, I am feeling a bit peckish.
Old MacDonald had a farm
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E-i ei o
And on that farm he had a Gundam
E-i ei o
Because a mobile suit is the perfect solution to the problem of an aging workforce in an industry that depends upon manual labor.
This makes me happy
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An octopus cuddling his Mr. Potato Head.
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Searching for sex
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Want to waste time playing with Google Trends parameters? Come on, you know you do. How about this graph depicting the frequency of sexuality-related search terms?
My first reaction: disbelief.
How is it possible that “lesbian” isn’t a kajillion times higher? Because we all know that’s what you heterosexual men are searching for online.
Drug dealers hate Santa
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Fortunately, no reindeer or Santas were harmed in the incident.