by Kevin Pettway on July 27, 2010
Honestly I’m trying to move away from this sort of anti-religiony stuff. I still think it’s funny… but I’m not sure I think it’s important anymore. Lena told me she thought I was beginning to sound like some kook living alone in a shack with nothing better to do than shake his fist at the [...]
by Kevin Pettway on November 27, 2009
Science is going to kill us. One of these days, some brainiac is going to create exactly the wrong invention, and we’re all going to be doomed. I’m not talking about an anti-matter bomb, or a super virus… but something innocuous looking like a box that lets you see three seconds into the past or [...]
by Kevin Pettway on November 2, 2009
On June 17th, 1603 Joseph Desa was born to Felix and Francesca in the town of Cupertino Italy. (Well, Francesca anyway. Felix died just before Joseph’s birth.) Joseph grew into an extremely dim-witted young man, and was known around town as “the Gaper” for his tendency to stare slack-jawed into space. Not having any real [...]
by Kevin Pettway on October 26, 2009
The Higgs Boson is sometimes known as the god particle, and if conclusively observed and proved to exist could demonstrate how massless particles moving though a non-zero vacuum… this being the theoretical Higgs field… could attract and pick up mass, thus hopefully explaining how particles have mass. This could be used to extrapolate backwards to [...]
by Kevin Pettway on July 29, 2009
About… oh… eight or nine months ago Lena and I went out looking for driftwood to put in our new aquariums. We found lots of cool pieces, Florida being a swampy place, and we began treating the wood according to a well-respected aquarium book we had purchased for just such esoteric information. It took about [...]
by Kevin Pettway on July 10, 2009
VOTE FOR HOLE! I’m not trying to be pushy or anything but VOTE FOR HOLE! Bar Cop Anthony Abbate, a 40 year old, 250 pound Chicago cop, went drinking at a local bar one night. After he had consumed a few too many, the bartender, 125 pound Karolina Obrycka, cut him off. Anthony responded by [...]