Russ McBee

Via Doug McCaughan: That pretty much says it all.

Here are snippets of an ongoing conversation thread that happened on Twitter today; it involves five different people. These updates were interspersed with other ''tweets'' from me and the 62 people I follow, so the meandering, cloudy nature of Twitter is masked by my selective edits. (A name preceded by an @ symbol indicates that the person ...

This is a true story, but I'm changing the names to protect the innocent. A co-worker, whom I'll call ''Mark,'' has been on assignment recently about 10 or 11 time zones away. Back home, his co-worker ''John'' sent him an email about a meeting that transpired in Mark's absence. Here's what John meant to say to Mark: While you were sleeping, I ...

From Cathy, on her husband Doug (seen in comments here): Doug would pass a drug screen. Crazy doesn't show up in body fluids. (He may be drug-free, but I'm reasonably sure Doug never sleeps.)

A couple of physicists in Italy have developed an explanation for poltergeist activity, which suspiciously always seems to happen around children; it has to do with quantum mechanics and the chemical changes that occur in the brain around the time of puberty: Brovetto and Maxia hypothesise that the changes in the brain that occur at puberty ...

Maila Nurmi, the actress who played Vampira from the 1950s onward, passed away on Friday at the age of 86. This comment, seen at Newscoma's place, may qualify as the quote of the month: May you rest, but get back up and do it all over again. Hilarious.

This is just too funny: Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to pay phone bills on time. [...] In at least one case, a wiretap used in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigation ''was halted due to untimely payment,'' the audit found. FISA ...

My paternal grandfather was a curmudgeon throughout his entire life. Christmas seemed to aggravate the condition. For nine or ten years, from the late 1950's through the mid-1960's, he taught at Gibbs High School here in Knox County (at that time, Gibbs housed grades 1 through 12 together in one building). One of those years, a few days before ...

A Twitter update by the inimitable Newscoma: Must go shopping or my family will be getting Tampax and batteries for Christmas. I should probably create a Newscoma tag.

From John Carney: It seems like all I've done this week is link to stuff that Newscoma has posted. I know the feeling, John.