Posts Tagged ‘funny’

Life, Philosophy and Beer

Posted: 4th March 2013 by JPS Nagi in General, Philosophy
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A meteorology professor stood before his Meteorology 101 class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty glass mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it [...]

Redshirts by John Scalzi is one of those stories which are difficult to review, without spoiling, but I’m going to try. The story takes place in post-television 25th century future on an elite DubU ship – Intrepid. It is under the command of captain Abernathy, whose crew include science officer Q’eeng, first office Keerensky, medical [...]

Audible Frontiers did a shared universe stories called METAtropolis with John as one of the authors and the editor of the anthology. That was my first encounter with John’s writing and I enjoyed it. So when Powells Books announced John’s visit to their bookstore, I was there. He was amazing, as I have already mentioned [...]

Policies and Procedures

Posted: 9th August 2010 by JPS Nagi in General
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A study placed eight monkeys in a room. In the middle of the room is a ladder, leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the ceiling. Each time a monkey tries to climb the ladder, all the monkeys are sprayed with ice water, which makes them miserable. Soon enough, whenever a [...]