My favorite infomercial of all time: THE MAGIC BULLET

Infomercial Hell has a good play-by-play describing the plot and some nuances you may have missed in your first (or 10th) viewing.

The also have some “highlight reels” for some characters..

“Hazel” the cigarette-smoking hag (of “chopped garlic” fame):

“Berman” the drunk (of “Yuck! I hate broccoli!” fame):

Or, watch the whole thing:

I still haven’t worked up the nerve to get someone this as a wedding gift, but I’m getting closer. You’ve been warned.

Selected pictures from the last couple of weeks (travels from CA to CT to MA to PA and back).

Taking the train over to SFO, I couldn’t help but take a picture of the “no angry unibrows” sign:

Fog rolling over SF as I was leaving SFO:

A revenge photo of my grandmother at my sister’s graduation party:

My cousin with some guy from brazil:

Looking down the street in Kendall Square (Cambridge, MA):

The edge of MIT’s campus, that’s the Gates building on the left… I went to the bathroom there once (great story)

On to LU…

I think I’m making this incredulous expression most of the time:

Some google photos to follow…

Bruce Schneier: Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot

This seems like a nonsense phrase to me:
“I literally can’t wait!”

Putting “literally” before a metaphor should make it literally mean the words following it. Instead, uses like this use ‘literally’ to amplify the metaphor. This is like “change is literally sweeping the nation”… if that were true, it could probably clean up all those cigarette butts that smokers leave on the ground..