tigertoy

You know how they say when the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. I assert a corrollary:

Phil's Law of Tool Usage: When you have a hammer in your hand,everything looks like a nail.

Commentary: When you're holding a chainsaw you can be dangerous. :-)

In retribution for whatever bad things you've done, I hereby subject you to a link to a webcomic with a ghastly pun slightly related to what I did this past weekend.

Someone linked to this comic in a locked post.  After I finished sporfling, I had these random thoughts:

Everyone is familiar with Clarke's Law ("Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.")  A lot of people have come up with jokes or tag lines twisting it around in various ways.  A piece, I'm pretty sure by Arlan Andrews, I'm pretty sure published in Analog in the 80s (probably a Probability Zero) called "Indian Summa", took a couple of pages to set up "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology."  Berry Gehm quipped, somewhen, that "Any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced."  There was a fortune cookie on one of the Unix systems I once worked on that claimed "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature."

Does anyone have any more good variations on this time-honored theme?

After seeing yet another comment on how wonderful snow is, I need to reprise Wednesday's Sandusky.

I only try to follow a few webcomics -- it's too painful at dialup speed.  The only one I think of as obscure is John Prengaman's Sandusky.

The first two panels of today's strip don't need context to be funny.  So if you're a webcomic fan but don't know this one, take a look.

When you're sort of half listening to the BBC news on the radio in the other room when you're already exhausted, you can hear the oddest things.

"... nuclear winter has emerged preventing a second round ..."

*blink* *blink* oh, they're talking about the election in Zimbabwe, and what he actually said was no clear winner has emerged...

I hate public radio pledge drives so much that I won't be having the radio on much this week, but I'm making an exception for The Midnight Special.  Rich Warren just proved why, spoofing the pledge drive by playing a couple of comedy cuts about the thank-you gifts that you can't actually get with your pledge.  The first one was a gag that almost made me fall out of my chair, an old cut by someone named
Bob Conrad.  It begins by giving this great pitch about how we invented the condensed book to make great literature more accessible to busy people, and abridged audio recordings, and such.  And then it goes on to offer the next version of this idea:  Great Square Inches In Art.  That's right, a collection of reproductions of famous details of famous art.  Mona Lisa's smile, God's finger in The Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel, the pitchfork from American Gothic, etc.

Maybe it's funnier because I'm in the process of producing a photo post of what I did yesterday, an important part of which is cropping the photos so that the image I'll put on-line can have enough detail to be interesting without taking a week for me to upload, because everybody else has broadband but I still don't.  And it probably loses so much from my description that you're now scratching your head wondering what I've been smoking, but it was so funny I had to post about it.

Buried in the discussion on filkertom's journal, we get the following, not work safe due to slightly off color language and content and extremely high probability of attracting unwanted attention from your boss due to uncontrollable laughter.  Click at your own risk.

When I was shopping last night, I saw a product that made me laugh so much I was tempted to buy it even though I wouldn't use it.  (I love to eat hot wings but I don't make 'em myself.)  Not having access to LJ in the grocery store, I forgot about it until just now, but I had to share.

Redneck Whisky Wing Sauce
and chicken depilatory

It occurs to me that you might not believe me, so I googled and found evidence.

This important news story (thanks bammba_m) strongly suggests that those of us who aren't getting any are in fact at greater risk of expensive health problems!  Clearly, in the interest of keeping overall health care costs down, our managed care plans need to start providing a new preventive health care benefit.  In fact, since it's an obvious money-saver (heart attacks and other stress related ailments are ridiculously expensive to treat you know), it seems inevitable.

I think I'll leave the details and potential drawbacks to the reader's imagination for now.