I am now making minimum wage!

As I mentioned in a previous post, due to the failure of the state Legislature to pass a budget, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was planning on signing an executive order reducing the wages of almost all state employees to the Federal minimum wage rate of $6.55 per hour. Well, he did it today (registration may [...]

Big name baseball players traded today – wow!

Wow! Both Manny Ramirez and Ken Griffey Jr. were traded today. Ramirez has hit 510 home runs in his career, and Griffey has hit 608. I am assuming that this is the first time in history that 2 players with over 500 home runs have been traded on the same day.
The Red Sox had absolutely [...]

Wildlife officials in Minnesota are idiots

How hard can it be to capture a black bear with a jug stuck over its head? If you’re a Minnesota wildlife official, it’s a lot harder than it looks because they failed to do so in 6 days and ended up killing the bear.
Allison in her “Just My Day” blog expresses what should be [...]

I can get a list of licensed physicians for only $392!

I just received this email:
Fully Licensed Physicians in the US
788,505 in total <> 17,484 emails
Many different medical specialties
16 different sortable fields
This week’s special price =  $392
{}{}{} Receive the items below as a Bon.US if  you order this week {}{}{}
US Pharmaceutical Company Executives Listing
47,000 names and emails of the major positions
Database of US Hospitals
more than 23k [...]

Liars

A Sunday school teacher was giving her class the assignment
for the next week.
“Next Sunday,” she said, “we are going to talk about liars,
and in preparation for our lesson I want you all to read the
Seventeenth Chapter of Mark.”
The following week, at the beginning of the class meeting,
the teacher said, “Now then, all of you who [...]

Pet peeve regarding people who don’t leave messages on voicemail

I am somewhat annoyed when people decide NOT to leave a message on my voicemail AFTER the entire message has played, ensuring that I have a voicemail where the only audible sound is that person hanging up. This wastes a good 15 seconds of my life  If you are not going to leave me a message, [...]

Stupid math answers

Yes, you read that correctly. I am blogging about idiotic answers to a math question instead of idiotic math questions.
This person wants to know how to solve (x+6)(2x-1) = 0. From algebra, if xy =0, then x=0 or y=0. We can see that for this problem, either x+6 = 0 or 2x -1 =0, yielding [...]

My new ninja name

I have an official ninja name!
According to this official ninja site,
King Al,
From this day forward, your Ninja Burger ninja name will be Katsushiro Katayama -san.
From now on, I expect everybody to call me “King Katayama -sama”   (
Edit 7/27: Thanks to commenter mividaendigital for pointing out that kings should be referred to as “sama.” [...]

Stupid math question of the day

Someone is asking how to solve 6x -2 = 7. As this person has asked 6 similar questions in the last 3 days, this person clearly hasn’t made much of an effort to understand the material.

Bad mathematical writing and editing

AARGH!  This is from LiveScience.com…
The human male releases about 66 million sperm during each … encounter. … since it takes only one sperm to make a baby, there are 59,999,999 extras along for the ride.
Did the writer and editor of this article never learn the concept of “significant figures” in school? Since 66 million is [...]