Crossword Complaints

We return today with no comments, just complaints. Both the Washington Post and NYT crosswords pissed me off today. Stupid words, stupid clues. It might also help if I didn't misread a variety of clues.

Twitter, superfluous?

Who needs twitter when there's gtalk? It just occurs to me that my gtalk stati are generally broken into short 140 character or less chunks that describe what I am doing right now.

Words of Wisdom

You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives. It is up to people like you and me who are out of our tiny little minds to try and help these people overcome their sanity. ~Graham Chapman

Who hasn't felt like this at least once?

"I want to get my orthodontist a present. Something nice, something that says 'my hate for you burns like the fire of a thousand suns; I will hack off your balls with wire cutters you moneysucking dipshit.'"

--Emily Jones

Make Every Day a Tuesday! It's Ac Fact--June 2, 2009

Today's It's Academic fact can be more science-y, since science bowl tryouts were today as well. And they stole our fourth A-team member. Not good. So, today's fact: The first nuclear powered submarine was named the Nautilus, named after the marine cephalopod. It was commisioned in 1952 and was launched in 1954. The one who supervised the construction was Admiral Rickover. Nautilus is the official state ship of Connecticut and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982.