Watch Me sleep

A funny for you

2009-08-12T13:01:00.002-04:00

Union Carbide Productions - Be Myself Again

2009-06-20T22:47:00.001-04:00

Dirty Swedish hippies.

TSOOL - bigtime

2009-06-20T22:39:00.001-04:00

SID THE SCIENCE KID | "I Love Charts" | PBS KIDS

2009-04-17T07:25:00.001-04:00

Headbutts

2009-04-16T21:17:00.001-04:00

There's nothing left to say.

Acquisition of prescriptivism

2009-03-14T21:36:00.003-04:00

Last night Nora (3) was jumping on her bed screaming "I don't want to wear nothing!" as I attempted to get her pajamas on. From his bed, Max (6) pipes up, "Sissy, saying you don't want to wear nothing means you want to wear something. Right dad?" Applying the poverty of the stimulus argument it appears that prescriptivism is innate. I know he didn't get it from me.

Stimerol udspringer

2009-03-10T12:47:00.001-04:00

Stimerol!

The Clash - Koka Kola

2009-02-02T11:33:00.001-05:00

Yeah, about those Super Bowl commercials.

I should move to Maine

2009-01-30T15:01:00.001-05:00

I wish Philly had enough snow to make this:

From The Jam Birmingham Smithers Jones

2009-01-27T16:06:00.001-05:00

I need a pinstripe suit.

Linguists vs lie detectors

2009-01-27T09:31:00.003-05:00

Two Swedish phoneticians are being threatened with a lawsuit for publishing a paper that is critical of a lie detector. The company that makes the lie detector, Nemesysco, said they will sue the authors if they republish the article or write another on on the same topic.

The article, titled "Charlatanry in forensic speech science", reviewed 50 years of research into lie detectors and concluded that there was no scientific evidence to believe that lie detectors work. The journal that publish the article retracted it after being pressured by Nemesysco.

Classic Hits by Microsoft Songsmith:

2009-01-26T13:09:00.001-05:00

Microsoft is so evil they actually made the Police good.

Wednesday comic--Pre-hiatus edition

2009-01-21T08:34:00.002-05:00

I hate to say this, but now is the time to put away childish things. The Wednesday comic is going on hiatus. My free time is limited and I really want to work on longer pieces. I have two ideas for graphic novels/novellas that I have been putting off and now I am going to focus on them. It's been fun and I hope you have enjoyed these as much as I have.

pink panther - i would like to buy a hamburger

2009-01-09T19:24:00.001-05:00

Friday meme "fun"

2009-01-08T14:14:00.009-05:00

I should really just blow Maryann off after she got all snooty on me, but I'm not like that. So here's the meme she tagged me with:

The rules:

1. Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog - some random, some weird
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blog (or twitter page)
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog. (or twitter account)
5. If you don’t have 7 blog friends, or if someone else already took dibs, then tag some unsuspecting strangers

7 facts about myself
1. I have sleep apnea. The sleep study I took to get diagnosed is the inspiration for the title of my blog.

2. I love inside jokes. Like so inside that only I get them. I am constantly surprised when no one gets them. Also, I now need to change the title of my blog.

3. My first inclination is always to hate something if someone tells me I'll love it.

4. There is no "I" in "Ed."

5. I am allergic to horses. I might never have found out if I didn't go horseback riding on the Laxness Horse Farm in Iceland. This is the farm that Halldor Laxness took his last name from. It was really nice until my face blew up.

6. I don't like melons.

7. I have size 12 wide shoes, but I usually just buy size 13 because its easier.

I am tagging:
Sean
Eric
AJ
Mr. Verb
Geekadelphia
The necessity for ruins
Used wigs

Wednesday comic--the lure of a sea of upturned faces edition

2009-01-07T17:14:00.004-05:00

Happy New Year!

2009-01-02T11:42:00.002-05:00

Photo courtesy of Rich Keer.

Skåne, a business and research region in Europe

2008-12-30T16:01:00.001-05:00

Lately I'm just feeling bad

2008-12-29T12:02:00.004-05:00

While I am usually ignorant of my own mistakes, I am one of those people who, for some reason, are tuned into others mistakes. I never used this power for evil, the way some people do. But, I did once naivly tell a baker at an outdoor market that he had mispelled 'foccacia' on his sign. Fortunately, he was baker and not a butcher.

There's a guy in my neighborhood who seems to have a pretty good dj business going on. He's got a shiny white van with tinted windows, his name and phone number printed on them. He goes by the name "Khaleel the Enertainer" and every time I see his van parked on the street I feel sad--not for the English language, not for the decline of standards, or the end of the world as we know it, but for him. Not only did poor Khaleel misspell the most important part of his name, but he did it so publicly, with his phone number right below. I can just imagine how many calls he gets from self-appointed grammar police and other assorted assholes judging him.

Fucking Eagles

2008-12-29T08:59:00.001-05:00

Just when I thought it was over, they pull me back in.

Understanding the WoC

2008-12-27T22:19:00.001-05:00

I figured out why Christians get angry when you say, "Happy holidays": they think that you think they are Jews.

Patti Smith lights me up

2008-12-24T23:59:00.001-05:00

Merry Christmas.

Hat tip UsedWigs.

Wednesday comic--Christmas edition

2008-12-23T17:18:00.003-05:00

Wednesday comic

2008-12-17T10:51:00.001-05:00

Another Scandinavian horror film

2008-12-13T10:35:00.001-05:00

This time it's Nazi zombies in Norway!