Archive for the 'Funny' Category

Piled higher and deeper

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Last week a friend pointed me to a comic that accurately described my life for four and a half years. Piled Higher and Deeper is a PhD comic strip. After reading just a few, I couldn’t help but think, “how did I miss this for all these years?” It turns out that [...]

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - chemistry teacher?

Friday, September 15th, 2006

According to Manolo’s critique Ahmadinejad dresses like a high school chemistry teacher:
Briefly and remarkably, the President of the Iran wears the same khaki windbreaker, wrinkled trousers, cheap oxford shirts, scruffy beard and wild eyes favored by the aging high school chemistry teachers everywhere.
Yes, in his youth he was the firebrand who would shake the very [...]

memo to K

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

Dear K,
In the 13 years that we’ve been married, there has been one constant in our life - plumbing problems. Last night’s 3am catastrophic water heater failure coupled with the emergency reinstallation I had to perform this morning was the final straw. This memo is to inform you that if we ever buy [...]

i may have a new theme song

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

you just gotta love weird al. not sure who made the video piece, but that’s pretty cute too.

Memo to the left hand

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

To the left hand:  It is clear that you no longer know what the right hand is doing.  This weekend’s “accidental” dremeling was eerily similar to the wood carving incident in grade school where a supposed “art project” resulted in losing a chunk of left index finger.  Combined with the great butcher knife massacre where [...]

Run for your lives!

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Run for your lives! This is not a drill. My mother is loose in the blogosphere (hi mom!). To friends of mine noticing random, anonymous comments in their blogs, it’s not my fault - I swear.
That is all. I now return you to your regularly scheduled Internet slack.

I get the strangest email…

Monday, July 24th, 2006

After 5+ years of doing image compression research back in the 90s, I get the strangest email requests. These usually come from students who are trying to get out of doing their own homework. Today’s example came with the subject line “plz help me.” I almost deleted it as spam, but decided to take a [...]