"I can't meet you and your husband for lunch...

...because I always seem to get pregnant afterward."

One thing about this parallel surreal world within the parallel real world of hypotenuses and right angles is try, try again.

If you live in the shadow of television towers, you'd better enjoy reading or building things.  If at first 20 channels of cable isn't working for you, try satellite.  If satellite leaves you wanting during a rainstorm, go back to 500 channels of cable for the tellie and ADSL for the Internet. If at first ADSL isn't working for you, try cable for speed's sake.  If cable seems one-way in many ways, try something like a Sony BDP-S370 with Internet options through ADSL.

And if none of those work, get out your high-res radar and track domestic drones for fun and games.

Stop Smiling or read it.

If you put those on engineering welfare out of work, how again did you say you were going to keep them occupied in occupational therapy?

Pandora and Netflix, perhaps?

Who will pay after Discovery's up and away?

Do you understand the connection between broadcast media and how the wheels of life are turned?

Do you know how to blind a visible light camera with science?

Do you have the intelligence to play the games you wrote and the rules you've forgotten while showing the hidden rules they make up that you're rewriting once more, all of us drawing new lines in the mantra sand?

To pretend to believe that some rules are hard-and-fast?

I get tired.  I am tired.  I was tired and only pure happiness keeps me from telling my billions of cells I'm so bored I could die from lack of any really new games to play.

Perception does not design rocket fins.

RNA does not always reflect DNA sequences.

If you find the oldest brick ever made, does that make any difference in how the average brick is laid today or newly-manufactured 100 years from now?

Can you deduce where the next volcano will erupt using gravity wave interruption?

The QE2 is not the QE2, despite nominal numerical nomenclature.  Floating in port, immobile in sober anticipation of a giddily resurgent economy.

Beauty is in the art of the beholden.

How many traditional items are no longer made in your land?

Will cable company content providers go out of business because of sepia-toned business models?

Branding is hazing - until branding is outlawed, all forms of nonfatal hazing are acceptable, so it would seem.

Pop culture books are mind-numbing comfort food, calorie-free, part of the Book of the Future I can still access remotely.

Thanks to Dianna, Joe and Jessica.

Does your news source publish rumours or verifiable, double/triple/quadruple-checked facts?  Do you care?