Hillel at the PI’s tasting menu has a pretty snarky comment about cheap food in Portland vs. Seattle. He says, “Portland, Oregon is filled with multiple clusters of street food vendors organized in little parks of vans, trucks, trailers, and shacks. Some of the street food is ok, but a n[...]
Posts Tagged ‘humor’
December 22nd, 2010 - 5:01 pm § in Misc.
Missing Link Found! Neanderthals Persist and Believe in Creationism!
The tip of a girl’s ’s finger from a cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains says the neanderthal genome lives on! see Nature Now what will our friends the creationists do? and what is there about the French and the Han having a common ancestor? In the meantime: “PRINCETON, NJ — Four[...]
December 20th, 2010 - 8:51 pm § in Misc.
Weyerhauser and The Seattle Times Invent new Portal to the Internet
Read Before You Need ( SJ News: Anacortes, WA; April 1, 2011) Merger afoot. In a major piece of news, Weyerhauser has purchased the Blethen publishing company. Linda Blethen, the current CEO of the Paper Disposables Division, will be the head of a new divisions to be called News-on-Paper Enterpris[...]
December 20th, 2010 - 9:11 am § in Misc.
Academic Equality, Swedish Style
Swedish med students perform prof’s autopsy Medical students at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute (KI) set to perform their first-ever clinical autopsy were floored to discover that the corpse was none other than one of their former instructors. more here[...]
December 19th, 2010 - 11:04 am § in Uncategorized
Washington to play for NCAA Football Championship
Ben Leighton | Internet Content Editor, KXLY.com Link (December 17, 2010 ) Is this what happens when Washington State plays COLLEGIATE football? GO EAGLES! The Eagles, ranked No.1 to end the regular season in The Sports Network/Fathead.com Top 25 NCAA Football Championship Subdivision poll, will e[...]
December 18th, 2010 - 12:52 pm § in Misc.
Video Venue: Allegro non Tropo
Spoof of Fantasia. To the music of Bolero. added to Video Venue by Rhapsody History of life starting with a bottle of Coca Cola Allegro Non Troppo is a 1976 Italian animated film directed by Bruno Bozzetto. Featuring six pieces of classical music, the film is a parody of Disney‘s Fantasia, t[...]
December 17th, 2010 - 2:25 pm § in Uncategorized
Huskies Outrank Harvard!
OK .. I did not say WHICH Huskies: Published by Ricky Liu on December 17, 2010 at 10:52AM from the Harvard Crimson: CRIMSON VS. HUSKIES 2009 – Year that UConn’s men’s basketball team last made an appearance in the NCAA tournament. The Huskies have made 28 postseason appearances in the history [...]
Kim Jong Il Inspects KPA Unit 2670
Pyongyang, December 16 (KCNA) — General Secretary Kim Jong Il inspected KPA unit 2670. After receiving a salute, General Secretary Kim Jong Il dropped in at the operation command room to learn about the unit’s performance of duty and the training of commanding officers. He was greatly sa[...]
December 16th, 2010 - 10:13 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene
Challenge: Identify what is wrong with this image and win a prize.
There is something very wrong with this picture. The first person to identify what is wrong will win an official THE-Ave.US beer mug! Answers must be posted before Sunday evening. Cheating will be rewarded, pursuant to the usual UW policies.[...]