Pariah

The point goes back at least as far as Casablanca: "I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here." "Your winnings, sir. "Oh, thank you very much."

Lady P's sister gave her a box of four Crumbl cookies for her birthday earlier this month, including both the blueberry cheesecake and Oreo milkshake flavors. They were amazing. Their cookies are, by and large, excessively sweet, and I can kind of see the complaints about the texture. But they are a special treat, not the kind of cookies you would eat every day. Not at that price, anyway. I'm hoping to get a box of four of them for my birthday too.

I personally would have no problem with teams going back to a 154 game schedule. But because there's money to be made from broadcasting, ticket sales, parking, et cetera, ad nauseam, I know it'll never happen

... and now I'm thinking of some of my students, past and present, who fit nicely into the five archetypes defined by the main characters in that show. I've got two or three of the so-called basket cases who aren't technically my students, but spend a couple hours in my room each week with the D&D Club. They're good kids.

Back in the old Soviet Union, if you wanted a car you would have to order it several years in advance and pay cash up front. So having gathered his money for a long time, a man goes in one day to buy a car. He puts the money down and the clerk says, "Very good comrade. You will receive your car 5 years from today.' The man asks, "In the morning or the afternoon?" The clerk says, "It's 5 years from today what difference does it make?" The man says, "Well, the plumber is coming in the morning."

"What would you do with a brain if you had one?"

I just finished watching the first episode of X-Men '97. I think it stays pretty true to the original in terms of animation style and tone. Wolverine's deep gravelly voice, Gambit's ridiculous Cajun accent, Scott trying really hard to sound earnest but coming off as pompous, lots of bright pink power effects, all that jazz. It looks promising.

I absolutely do not recommend that you watch this. You'll suffer SAN damage, guaranteed. You'll question any faith you might still have in the human race. Even knowing this video is linked to Florida won't help. I can only call it... A Crime Against Steak

Q: What do you mean, "liquid currency"? A: Lucid, but not comforting.

Desperately falling Feeling our love set us free We were better together Believed it was all meant to be Stay as one forever The band of gold would always prevail Happy in the moment Life betrays one, a fairytale Memories time cannot erase I still see your face Where did I lose your love You'll always be the question in my heart How could I make you stay I still regret the night you walked away What we shared was not enough Where did I lose your love Never saw it coming You left so suddenly What was here that scared you You want what I couldn't see Emotions time cannot erase I still see your face Where did I lose your love You'll always be the question in my heart How could I make you stay I still regret the night you walked away What we shared was not enough Where did I lose your love So far from each other So close to happiness I'll be there to remind you Love forgives but never forgets Emotions time cannot erase I still see your face Where did I lose your love You'll always be the question in my heart How could I make you stay I still regret the night you walked away

When I die, I'm going to ask the BYU Men's Basketball team to be my pallbearers ... so they can let me down one last time.

This is an amusing take on the MLB Nike uniform fiasco. A Uniformity Of Errors

"Keep your place, Picard." "This is my place." "He is now my cha'Dich." "This is not your world, human. You do not command here." "I'm not here to command." "Then you must be ready to fight. Something Starfleet does not teach you." "You may test that assumption at your convenience."

Proof yet again that anonymity on the Internet is not and has never been real.

"STOP SAYING THAT!!"

I didn't intend to take as long as I did to make the updates, but here we are. As usual, check and see what I missed. And let me know your Title if you haven't declared one yet.

Creepy Pics Thread yadda yadda.

Tangentially related to my recent viewings of Star Trek (the original series): Someone online asked why the Romulans seemed so angry all the time. My favorite response went something like this: "So you've got the Vulcans, whose intelligence and scientific achievements are rivaled only by their smug superiority in the same. "You've got the Andorians, a militaristic society who's spent years / decades / centuries fighting with the Vulcans. "You've got the Tellarites, who have raised belligerence and antagonism to the level of a racial stereotype. "And now you have humans, these self-righteous little space monkeys who can barely find their way around a warp core but who have, nevertheless, managed to make the other three all play nice with each other. "So if I'm the Romulan Star Empire and I wake up with these guys at my doorstep every morning, I'm probably gonna be cranky too."

Meh. I may have two degrees from the place, but in general I don't give a hill of dingoes' kidneys about Utah athletics. Unless they're playing BYU ... in which case I put on anything blue I can find. Go Cougars!

Best. Sweatshirt. Ever.

Four minutes into the second half, Virginia trails Colorado State 37-16. The Cavaliers scored 14 in the first half and went almost ten minutes without a point. They're shooting has been atrocious. The phrase "Couldn't hit water if they fell out of a boat" comes to mind. Go Rams!

Scientist: "I'd like to introduce you to my new robot." Me: "Wow, that's cool." Scientist: "He has limited functionality. He can't express emotions or hold a meaningful conversation." Me: "That's okay, I..." Scientist: "I was talking to the robot."