micah holmquist's irregular thoughts and links

While watching Hatfields & McCoys last night, I was struck by how for all the “shit”s and “goddamn”s, in olden times nobody ever said “fuck.”

Spring Cleaning makes no sense

Why wait till the weather gets nice to do something inside?

Bandwagons need to adopt more rigorous auditioning processes.

Why can’t you compare apples and oranges?

Both are fruit. Both are roughly the same shape. They are ripe for comparisons.

Good Advice

Do not eat an apple in the waiting room of a doctor’s office.

I Have Discovered the Greatest Name in the History of Names

And it belongs to the first black governor of a U.S. State, P.B.S. Pinchback.

Why do victors have to settle for the spoiled stuff?

Did Napoleon have a Waterloo?

Do dinosaurs have ghosts?