Category: ramblings

The Diamond Invention: How diamonds went from common rocks to a multi-billion dollar business controlled by the De Beers cartel. Oh… and diamonds aren’t forever.

Special thanks to the waitress at the Austin Grill last night who left me her pen to sign the check with— I think I’ve got a new favourite pen.

First transparent aluminum, now this: they’ve created "metal rubber," which is undeniably cool. Of course, the accusations of reverse engineering alien technology are already flying furiously.

Reminds me of the Windows switchers ad campaign that Apple used to run, these folks are Republicans… but they’re not about to vote for Bush in November.

Just testing my new self-censoring, to make my site a tiny bit more safe for my parents. 😛

The FCC’s (and George Carlin’s) seven dirty words are thus: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. I’ve also made it a no-no to discuss God or his son, Jesus, though you can talk about gods, in the lowercase, all you like. You should also be able to safely say cockerel and titmouse, but not shite, even though I’d like to allow it, but have yet to figure out exactly how.

And, of course, now I can safely say the true name of one of the best actors out there, Samuel L. Motherfucking Jackson.

Oh, and I added a pirate smiley. :pirate: Yarrr!