- Click here to transfer $5 to my
account.
- Listen to Pas/Cal, ``Summer is almost here.''
- Listen to The Fiery Furnaces.
- Is ``purple'' a real color? While we may be able to discuss ``blue,''
``green,'' or ``red'' with an extraterrestrial, ``purple'' is just a quirk
of our human visual system.
- Rumble strips on the road could be used to make music. Every highway
could have its own theme song.
- I saw a broom closet labelled ``Custodia.'' It was a nice label
too.
- ``For security reasons, we ask your cooperation to minimize crowding
in
the forward cabin.'' Translation: ``Please stay away from the passengers
in First Class.''
- A remote starter for a car---the car starts when you wink at it.
- Today is Thanksgiving. A hobo on a bike rode past me on
the sidewalk and asked me if it is Saturday. I had to think about it for a
while.
- Have you noticed that the synopsis on the back of a children's
book often contains more words than there are inside the book?
- I dreamed that there was a government subsidy to teach hobos how to
be mimes.
- Personal terror alert jewelry. The color changes based on how scared
the wearer is of terrorists.
- An old lady walking a dog, pushing her wheelchair backwards
with one foot, smoking a cigarette.
- Lockets for couples. Each contains one of a pair of quantum-entangled
particles.
- Listen to ``Tones of Town'' by Field Music.
- Puzzling news headline from CNN: ``Falcon charged with
animal abuse.''
- A good
name for a store that sells booze is ``Liquor Liquidators.''
- Good name for a place to put otters: ``Otter Space.''
- Listen to Deerhoof.
- The best name I have
ever seen for an ice cream store: ``Kaleido Scoops.''
- The
best title I have ever seen for a math paper: ``Integrity of
Ghosts.''
- The best title I have ever seen for a public
lecture: ``Javanese Bodies, Javanese Selves.''
- A digital display set into the back of the right hand. When the
wearer shakes hands it indicates by how many generations the two people
are removed.
- Grow a
pumpkin in a hammock so it will look good from all angles.
-
Listen to Midlake, ``The Trials of Van Occupanther,'' especially ``In This
Camp.''