Posts Tagged ‘urban legends’

Now that’s an old school poem

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Here, underneath this little stone,
Lies Robert, Earl of Huntingdon.
No archer was as he so good,
And people called him Robin Hood.
Such outlaws as he and his men,
Will England never see again.
That’s my best shot at updating what may well be Robin Hood’s epitaph to modern English.
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Miscellany: Your lab fees at work.

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

For a long time now I’ve been asking to be cremated and buried or scattered, rather than being embalmed and buried whole. This is primarily because I find the whole embalming thing a bit icky and unnatural, and secondarily because as an engineer I realize that the conventional burial model doesn’t scale with geometrically expanding [...]

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Lazy Sunday Links

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

So, last night we had a ridiculously out of season snowstorm, which dropped almost a foot of snow on us over night.
Yes, I am writing this on Easter weekend. Yes, it is April.
And yet still I saw this when I looked out the window this morning:

The one upside of this is that I got to [...]

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