Archive for July 2014

sUPRAcURRENCYiNDICATION

Dollars and Cents

[ONE, TWO, SKIP A FEW…THREE, FOUR, SKIP SOME MORE.] [IN SERT CRED IT] *clink, thunk, plink* [PEN NY RE CEIVED.] [PLEASE EN TER A COM MAND.] (1)+1+1+1+1 /Return [= 5] /Print5CentCoin *ching* [PLEASE RE MOVE NIC KEL] [IN SERT CRED IT]… Read more…

Bait and Lure

Knight Who Says Ni

Can you conceive of any reason why someone would cover an expensive, technologically-advanced, multi-use, tar-paved road with dirt and gravel, then draw a sideways branch out of it that approximates the low-tech surface features? What might you hide at the… Read more…

Planning Ahead Versus Foresight

Minus

Did you know you can perform a subtraction function without counting backwards from the higher number to the lower number, thereby “removing” one amount from another? Simply add one unit to the lower number, while keeping track of how many ones you… Read more…

Sexual Categorical Imperative

Artificial Insemination

Imagine for a moment that every man on earth dies at the same moment, and has their genitals harvested for randomized artificial insemination, leaving behind an entire planet of single mothers who would then go on to raise an entire… Read more…

Fizzy Rail

Telephone Wire

Localized, buzzing teleelectric wire with radiating cylindrical emissions following a repeating pattern with discrete substructure. Wire. Ow. Ow. Ow. Must report to operating authority. Repairative agent will record radial waves and look for waveform encoding, then repair the emitters that… Read more…

Marvelling Martian

Satellite

It would be super funny to fly a spacecraft close to the sun with a giant magnifying glass and several strategically mobile, unattached, mirror coated, point-directional assistive focusing dishes around it, and then point it at other planets to see… Read more…

Melon Cholic

Rose Hips

I just tried one of the bright red berries right by my staircase for the first time. The berries are arranged in the same positions and share the same locations on the stems as small green bulbs and white flowers…. Read more…

Mine Deiery Queen

Cheese Bouquet

Oh, whence the spicy-peppered cremes and cheeses? Blue Belle…A sad, “Sad loneley southern woman’s name” name for a sad product. Give the children pickles and peppers and cooking herbs in their sno-cones so that they might learn another way. Whither… Read more…