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I rediscovered an old one from Chris:

ANIME:

Japanese animation. Full of people that look like ^_^
[Ex: I only watch anime with tentacles in it. ]

The Gallery of Bellydancing Librarians!

“But man — and woman — do not live by information alone. At night, our gal trades her Birkenstocks for beads and serves her adoring public’s entertainment needs with the music and dance of the Middle East.”

Even in the midst of the Katrina disaster, fashion reigned supreme:

And this one will win your pity for the poor, poor ex-FEMA head:

There are more emails here. (mirror link)

Friend of mine back in the college days ended up making a name for himself doing Artificial Intelligence programming for video games. Here’s an old interview with him I recently found.

When we were taking classes together I was always impressed (and admittedly jealous) with how little preparation he needed in order to ace everything every class threw at him. The boy was scary smart!

And apparently all that computer gaming we all did during those college years paid off for him. In those days it was stuff like X-Wing, XCOM, Doom, and Wing Commander. On 486’s with 100MB hard drives. And we liked it!!!

Before diving headlong into the video game industry, Pranas worked on Virginia Tech’s CAVE project. He gave me a tour of the CAVE system once (it’s an experimental virtual reality setup). I still remember my stomach turning from the perceived motion induced by the 3D projections.

Tonight, while we watched the wind blowing leaves off the trees, Iris came up with the perfect explanation for why the leaves were falling:

“The trees are mad.”

I occasionally receive Scott Adams’ Dilbert newsletter, and the best part of it is the “quotes from In-duh-viduals” section. Here’s the one for this month:

INDUHVIDUAL QUOTES
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Here now, some quotes from Induhviduals, submitted by DNRC field operatives. Apparently the most confusing concepts for Induhviduals are anything involving body parts, beverages, food, or animals.

“It’s so cold I’m getting goose nipples!”

“I’m as full of vinegar as a Christmas turkey.”

“You can stop kicking this dead whale down the beach and find another hobby horse to beat to death.”

“One man’s trash is another man’s garbage.”

“I think I was speaking to Tom, and if it wasn’t Tom I’m sure it was someone else.”

“Check the pulse on the temperature.”

“He’s making a mole hill out of an issue.”

“Don’t look at me in that tone of voice!”

“I home school three children and am expecting a forth!”

“This is the worst headache I’ve ever had in the history of my head.”

“Imitation is the sincerest form of mockery.”

“The squeaky wheel gets the worm.”

“You’re not the smartest peanut in the turd.”

“I’d give an arm to be ambidextrous!”

A close second is the “True tales of In-duh-viduals” section.

It’s a used 2005 Hyundai Sonata that was repossessed from a rental car company that went out of business.

Very useful advice from Jon:

The first law of kung fu is don’t fuck up your kung fu.

Monday funny

From Diana:

I’m sure every exam-taker has experienced this effect. In college I had a computer science exam for the Data Structures course. One of the last questions was “Draw a B-tree.” In the last few minutes of frenetic desperation, I drew a picture of a tree, complete with trunk, leaves and branches, and wrote the letter B right in the middle of it.

An auction by our friend Christina:

Hippo Balls

“Shipping will be 37 cents to the contiguous states as we will be slapping your balls in an envelope and mailing them to you.”