Wes Phillips

"One does not inhale vodka's bouquet, but one may use vodka to sterilize a wound on the knee, as familiar a sight to the serious vodka drinker as the shot glass and the handful of ibuprofen."

One of my most pleasant memories from living in Santa Fe was cruising the back road to Albuquerque to visit Brian Damkroger for the first time in John Atkinson's classic Mercedes ragtop. Naturally, it started to rain and we had to pull off the road and wrestle his roof back onto the car. All this Mercedes mechanical sophistication and we still have to do this by hand? I thought.

Alicia Zuckerman has a nice coda on Kurt Vonnegut over at the HufPo. She gets the final word on Vonnegut's epitaph because she actually asked him what he wanted it to be.

Sleep inertia is a wonderful phrase, one I'm sure to add to my personal lexicon. "We found the cognitive skills of [some] test subjects were worse upon awakening than after extended sleep deprivation," researcher Kenneth Wright said. That's because in some of us, the cortical areas responsible for problem-solving take longer to wake up than other parts of the brain—as much as 12 hours, in my case.

Yes, I have posted to these before, but I didn't know the back story and the panels were poorly reproduced. Joel Johnson went out and bought Wood's memo to himself and posts high-resolution scans. He also tells us the real story behind "Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work."

The guy who invented TV-B-Gone ought to get a Nobel Prize. I don't mind being at bars or places where people are actually watching TV, but I resent being the only person in a waiting room with the TV blaring inanities. And when you ask the receptionist to turn it off, you get answers like "Other people like it."

The EFF would like to hear from you. Heh heh heh—I laugh Sam Tellig's evil laugh.