Going Green

Not environmental (why bother when we all know the environment is going to be destroyed by grey goo...or zombies), but Irish. That's right, I'm in Ireland. Possible home of some of my corrupt genetic material.

And here's a picture of The Hairy Lemon to prove it. Probably you can't read it, but that sign...the small and blurry one...that says, "The Hairy Lemon." Trust me, it does.

100th Post Blow Out!

That's right, kids, the blog has reached a "certain age." It has come into its own. Has noticed changes in its body. Has reached its 100th post. And to celebrate let's take a look back.

The people that made it possible:

Heather
Melody
Derek
Ben
Anonymous, especially Anonymous

The best video:





The best gag ever.


The best pic:


Random link

Well, that's it for the celebration and fond look back over the last 99 posts. It's like it was only a few months ago that this all began. And here's to the next 100...unless I get bored...

WARNING: Grey Goo

Have you ever wondered will the world end in fire or ice? Had you wondered this you wasted your time because the world will, in fact, be ending in grey goo. How do I know? Because of the wonders of the Internet (A quick aside: I used to get worked up over having to capitalize the Internet, but now I realize it is a proper name for that space where all the weird, terrible, wonderful urges of the world get refined into points of light, and so just as you capitalize Kalamazoo so should you capitalize the Internet). Anyway, so I was going to my goto site Google, though I have documented our rocky relationship, and though I have a Google bar right there in the top right hand corner of my browser, I still type in the site, but this time, instead of clicking down to the auto-fill Google, I hit enter on "goo." Instead of sending me automatically to Google or to some page trying to sell me Goo.com, I wound up on the Wikipedia page for "grey goo." Naturally, I took this to be a sign and was intrigued.

What is grey goo? Why it's "a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all living matter on Earth while building more of themselves (a scenario known as ecophagy; eating the environment)." Of course. So apparently, nanotechnology will just turn us all to a grey goo byproduct in it's heedless lust to reproduce. One more thing for me to be worried about. What is wrong with machines and their carnal programming?

The only answer: we must teach nanobots abstinence.

It's a Book Montage

S.Craig's book montage

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Um...sort of? It's really just not working for me. A book F? A book row or six? Anyway it's colorful. And booky. Arty? I give up...

Big Water

It's here and packed with watery goodness: Big Water, The 2008 MSR Short Fiction Anthology. With writers like Eric Voorman, Sam Howie, Julie Townsend, Charles Rammelkamp, Darren DeFrain, and Nicole Louise Reid, how could you go wrong? And it's edited by yours truly, but don't hold that against it. Buy it here. Read more release notices at Creative Loafing and the Charlotte Observer.

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Bananas in the News

You know how Heather's well-documented obsession with bananas has seeped over into my blog, and now I see bananas everywhere. If I were one to use puns, I'd say I'm going bananas--I, however, am not one to use puns and rather dislike them so I won't say that. But here is the news in bananas:

The Associated Press (you know you can trust those associates) reports that two men near the Costa Rica-Panama border were caught with $372,000 and when asked what they were doing with that much cash, they claimed to be "banana brokers" looking to buy bananas. Sometimes life is just too good.

My favorite part of the article is that it ends with "Bananas cost about $1.65 a pound in Costa Rica." That's right, the reporter is daring you to figure out how much bananas you could actually buy with 372K. Follow along kids: laundryed cash divided by Costa Rican banana rates= 225,454.55 lbs. of bananas.

Now those are banana brokers!