Absolutely, it is easy for you to be more charismatic, though you will never be as appealing as I am. According to Professor Richard Wiseman (I’m not sure what he’s a professor of, but he’s British and his last name … Continue reading →
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Much of this video’s content is covered in Nicholas Carr’s book, The Shallows, What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, in detail. Here’s my review of the book: The irony is a spongy wad, so thick the fine edge … Continue reading → mark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: The loneliness of the long distance rabbitThe stats were daunting. The average breeding season for rabbits is 9 months (10 in Newfoundland). Gestation time is 30 days. Each litter produces somewhere between 4 to 12 kits (baby rabbits). It takes 4 to 5 weeks to wean … Continue reading → [Mrs. Beset is washing her cat in the Nile, when Mrs. Knouphis enters, carrying a papyrus-reed basket, filled with jars of human organs.] Mrs. Knouphis: “‘Allo Mrs. Beset.” Mrs. Beset: “‘Allo Mrs. Knouphis.” K: “‘Av you ‘eard about that Mrs. … Continue reading → mark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Sad Spaceman regrets the broken promises …Yes, he’s back. More in the Sad Spaceman Tumblr here. Alltop never went anywhere. Most of the scientific community and a large number of other thinking hominids believe global warming to be an observed increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans in recent decades. Most of those people accept that … Continue reading → Last weekend Dr. Maximillian Tundra was lucky enough to go away for the weekend on a roadtrip with his buddies. It was nearly the last thing he ever did. After stopping for a delightful (if artery-hardening) breakfast buffet at the … Continue reading → Yeah, these guys really need to read my new book, The Fridgularity. The good folks at SigFox are planning to connect everything to the Internet. Where’s the harm in that? Well, what if you don’t want your toaster and fridge … Continue… . . . → Read More: mark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Let the toaster revolution begin Alltop has nightmares too. No funny blogs! The dreaded velociraptor is looking less and less like a Spielbergian nightmare, and more like something you could safely serve with cranberries. New research into the fossilized forearm discovered in Mongolia in 1998 by The American Museum of Natural History … Continue reading → The best part about the Little Cindi Cyborg doll was that it was a great way to teach kids responsibility. Not only was each Little Cindi Cyborg semi-sentient, she was outfitted with a hyper-plasma retainer and an ocular implant that … Continue reading → This cartoon on SMBC reminded me of this Dudley Moore, Peter Cook sketch: The Facts of Life. (Sorry, YouTube wouldn’t let me embed it.) Alltop still believes in storks. An Open Letter to Town Council Dear Councilors: Your town may have an emergency plan, a development plan, a health plan — it may even have a plan for how to fix the potholes (though I doubt it). But does … Continue reading → 
 corporation, flight-capable humans, Humor, humour, investment strategies, Municipal politics, nanotechnology, Odd Science, parody, Parody & Satire, ray kurzwiel, robocop, satire, singularity, Skwibby fiction, speculative humor, technological singularity, the singularity is near, town council When he awoke, his mate Onga was less than a hand away from his face, smiling her most dazzling smile. Somewhere, out in the forest, birds were chirping; bright light streamed through the canopy, illuminating the mossy forest floor with … Continue reading → Maybe Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is onto something here. Perhaps the reason that nobody has visited us yet is because they can’t agree on what they’re going to do with us when they get here. Or they could just be … Continue reading → Don’t forget Stonehenge. They would make some nice landscaping rocks. Alltop is in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. The Clown Apocalypse was not universally grim, unless you were coulrophobe with a debilitating fear of clowns. Apart from the moments of hilarity you’d sometimes get when you saw someone who was previously uncoordinated juggling while riding a unicycle, or … Continue reading → I love the sales features: no diet, no bath, no exercise! –Wait, no bath? I’m sure they mean the notion of “Taking the Waters” for weight loss and the curing of other ailments. This quaint European custom is still practiced … Continue reading → Once again, Dr. Tundra woke with a splitting headache, the feeling that he’d fallen asleep with a mouthful of half-masticated rat, and a pain in his lower back that could only be called apocalyptic. He opened his eyes; it felt … Continue reading → “Now listen carefully Judy, as this lesson will someday save your life. “You see this quadrant of the parietal lobe? This is the sweet spot when it comes to zombie domination. If you can deliver even a modest blow to … Continue reading → Finally, a new advance in the Beard Sciences! Here at the Institute of the Hirsute, we applaud this initiative. This exhaustive study of trustworthiness, vis-a-vis a gentlemen’s hair foliage, will help generations better understand who they’re dealing with. (Click the … Continue reading → You can relax. I don’t know where you got your information, but our best scientists don’t currently think the earth will be destroyed by the sun. In about 4-5 billion years, our sun will enter the red giant phase of … Continue reading → Taxonomy of Things, a photo by lunchbreath on Flickr. This is extremely helpful, but the taxonomy is not complete. I believe it should also include the following, which can be slotted in existing branches: thingamabob thingamajig junk junk ‘n stuff … Continue reading → Here’s some time-lapse video taken in Norway of the auroras caused by the solar flares. Gorgeous. And here’s a pic from of the Aurora Australis … from space! Taken by Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers on board the International Space Station … Continue reading → Everybody knew that Mission Control was a total tramp, but nobody had the heart to tell Sad Spaceman. Alltop likes directing from the ground too. |
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