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Monthly Archives: July 2017
Entry 680: City of the Dead
Let me begin today by pointing out the name of this post, “City of the Dead,” and telling you it’s about Farmingdale, Long Island. It’s not that Farmingdale has a higher than usual mortality rate; it just has a higher … Continue reading
Posted in death, humor
Tagged Amittyville Horror, Amityville Cemetery, Beth Moses Cemetery, Breslau Cemetery, Colma, family plots, Farmingdale, Long Island National Cemetery, Mount Arawat Cemetery, necropolis, New Montefiore Cemetery, North Babylon Cemetery, Six Flags Great Adventure, Trinity Cemetery, Wellwood Cemetery
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Entry 679: But What Address Should They Deliver It To?
At various times in the six years I’ve been doing this blog, I’ve covered new kinds of housing, such as a home that measures less than 11 square feet, a 10 story building that went up in just 48 hours, … Continue reading
Entry 678: Atomic Bond
Hello again, boys and girls. It’s Mr. Sciencemoron, and I’m back with more news from the Large Hadron Collider! Almost exactly two years ago, I told you about the amazing pentaquark. It was a sub-atomic particle the large hadron scientists … Continue reading
Posted in humor, physics, science
Tagged anti-matter, charm quarks, doubled charmed Xi, down quarks, Large Hadron Collider, Marek Karliner, multi-quark states, Omega-C, pentaquark, School of Physics and Astronomy, strange quarks, subatomic particles, Tel Aviv University, tetraquarks, Up quarks
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Entry 677: Facebook Follies
You have to hand it to Mark Zuckerberg. Perhaps nobody in human history has ever invented a bigger waste of time. Just one day’s worth of examples… You can submit your photo to sites that promise to tell you what … Continue reading
Posted in humor
Tagged Elizabeth Taylor, Kristin Gillebrand, Mark Zuckerberg, MeowShare, Rob Reiner
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Entry 675: Life Before Netflix
Once upon a time, before TVs were smart and presidents were dumb, when the words “stream” and “cloud” had something to do with water, just about every neighborhood in America had something called a “video store.” Even the smallest towns … Continue reading
Posted in humor
Tagged Beverly Hills Cop, Blockbuster, dial-up modem, Dirty Dancing, Enron, late fees, VHS tape, video store
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Entry 674: Just Wait Until They All Get on Your Subway Car
The lead of the NPR story read as follows: The world’s population growth is slowing, according to a new United Nations report, but the number of people living on Earth will still approach 10 billion by the year 2050. The … Continue reading
