The word ‘massacre’ comes to mind. I had a fit of stupidity this week, that’s all there is to it. I haven’t even tallied up the final score it’s so pathetic. I have something in the range of 60 and Guze has something in the range of 110. Almost double. Read more…
US waives sanctions on Saudis over religious rights The moral of the story is: if you gots lots of oil, the U.S. won’t hold you to the same standard. If you ain’t got lots of oil, start getting a space cleared for 150,000 visitors. God. Sometimes we are so pathetic.
Thanks to Ken for finding these examples. They don’t have Halloween here in Europe (not really), which is probably stunting the emotional development of millions of European children. But in the spirit of the season I thought I would post some tips for the aspiring home-made costume makers out there: Read more…
Been so busy now that school started that I didn’t get a chance to immediately post the results of the Table of Contents’ last showing at the pub quiz. 3rd place!!! In case you weren’t keeping track, that’s the best we’ve ever done. We had a full complement of five Read more…
What an amazing world we live in. Communications technology continues to astound me in the way it affects our lives. In my lifetime I watched as the Berlin wall was cut down. I watched the Twin Towers fall. I watched tanks roll through the Iraqi desert in real time. But Read more…
Let the citizens of the Netherlands beware: their streets are no longer safe. That’s because yours truly took the train today to Schiedam Centrum, walked to the showroom of Pelicar, slapped his wallet on the counter and said, “I need a car.” Amazingly enough, they had some to sell. Two Read more…
I used to have a TiVo, and I loved it. The ability to “time shift” your TV watching, even while watching live TV, was fantastic. So you can imagine I was a little peeved when I read that TiVo had released an update to their software that allowed copyright owners Read more…
This is an interesting case. A woman gets vetted for “Extreme Makeover”. They interview her family, and encourage them to say mean things about the way she looks. Not so shocking. Then they cancel the girl’s appearance on the show because the jaw operation would take too long to heal. Read more…
The Table of Contents was in bad shape tonight. We only had three players and were missing key elements of our knowledge base such as sports, all things relating to the Netherlands, and music. Plus, the picture round was a collage of famous Scandinavians. Seeing as we had no Scandinavian Read more…