Alkahest

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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! 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.

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 [...]