Category: Humor
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Glad to be back home after an enjoyable but hectic two weeks in New Delhi. The occasion for the winter travel was a family wedding. Most of the time was spent in attending to that - dressing up, eating and meeting with relatives some of whom I hadn't seen in years. On the return journey, I discovered to my…
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Even if it was a couple of days late, following much-maligned misspeaking by Janet Napolitano, President Obama's comments on the Undie-Bomber brouhaha were right on the money. Napolitano, interview on CNN, Dec 28: "What we’re focused on was making sure that the air environment remains safe, people are confident when they travel, and one think…
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Saw this on the evening news recently. I wonder if the cat attacks only when riding the robo-sweeper. Some less widely known info on Christmas animals. Could it be that Vixen and possibly Dancer and Blitzen are the aptly named reindeer of Santa? Rudolph appears to be plain wrong!
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Here are the suggestions of Sujatha, the humble not-so-uber-geeky blogger, on C&Ping from webpages when composing blog posts: 1. Focus on Tested Websites, not obscurities. (Psalm 345:1-3) Notice how Sujatha extols Google first. Then, in comparison to Google, she has no need of alternate search engines. "The Google is my light and my salvation; whom…
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Sounds like something straight out of ancient Hindu philosophy. Well, you realize you are drunk, you are driving and not very well; naturally, it's time to lapse into metaphysics or at the very least, some commendable drunken clarity.
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Bob Mankoff, the cartoon editor of the New Yorker was interviewed at Big Think about various aspects of humor – its roots, triggers, social utility and form. In the following videos, Mankoff answers some questions: How do men and women use humor in a social situation? When does humor, which almost always originates in bad taste, work effectively?…
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While we are on the subject of You Tube videos: Somehow, it is still hard for me to believe that this guy was my representative in the US Congress for many miserable years. Beginning around 1:30 the video becomes ridiculously scary. I didn't know whether to laugh, cry or throw up! How will all this booty shaking affect the…
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…in any world whatsoever!
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A valuable lesson for those conducting public discourse – balance is overrated. Not all opinions are valid. The most interesting line (1:54 on the video): Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise it would stop. Video link via the always interesting Lindsay Beyerstein.
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