Archive for the 'funny' Category

That is the actual title of this photo. I’m pretty excited that this exists.
(Link to photo, ganked from agrodolce2012 on flickr)

Okay, I’ll confess…I just wanted to see Goldbach’s conjecture on the “Open Questions in Mathematics” list, along with these other fine specimens:

So that whenever I see anyone around campus this week, I can ask them “so…how’s the venereal disease” and then wink knowingly. Yuk yuk yuk. But seriously: finals are this close to being over, and that means that this awful semester is also this close to over. I handed in the term [...]

 
Today was wonderful! Act I consisted of sleeping in, taking a loong time to get out of bed, noticing that it was snowing outside (!), having yogurt and homemade granola for breakfast, and playing with the beaurot for a little bit. Then I grabbed some grab’n’go and took off for Jiminy Peak with [...]

Spam poetry

A spam comment I just deleted, practically poetry! Read out loud for maximum effect.
Having registered here you will open for
yourself the world of love hour per all truly discuss the questions
Having registered here you will have
opportunities to communicate to the best models All of them beautiful attractive and sexual
if who [...]

Check out this graph of traffic to the post here that people keep going to, thinking they’re going to find some sort of batman- or ultimate-porn.  Why the sudden surge in interest in batman porn?  We’ll probably never know…

Don’t worry, it’s still coming! Coincidentally, Ruth and I are seeing the New York Philharmonic tonight! EEEEE!! Also, you should check out why some pretty smart people are feeling optimistic, and Indexed, a blog of silly/serious venn diagrams and other charts drawn on index cards. In sadder news, I’m about to [...]

I’ve been pretty down all day worrying about the paper I spent all last night working on and passed in today.  I did a quick read through before class to make sure there weren’t any huge glaring errors and was really sort of shocked to discover how little it is possible to say in six [...]

That’s the result of a (awesome) study that was reported in the Times:
Dr. Norden analyzed the Ultimate Players Association “power ratings” of private national universities over a decade (the ratings assess strength based on past performance), and he discovered a startling pattern. “All the schools with above-average ultimate teams also have above-average graduation rates,” says [...]

It is so comforting to know that, however bizarre I think I am, there is someone out there just like me.