Author: eidolon

I’m a little bit surprised that I missed this yesterday.  And that, in fact, I’d never heard of Towel Day until late yesterday.  Not that I would have been inclined to take a towel and bathrobe to work — I’m not much for costumes, not to mention a day job that would frown on such things anyway.  But I still think it’s cool that people are remembering Douglas Adams. 

Okay, some of these items are over a month old, but I do loves me some cephalopods.  And besides, when the octopus revolution happens (and it will) we’ll have to know everything we can about our new masters.

Tool use, theft, and a crooked fight, all below the cut.

A pair of money quotes from Sir Terry Pratchett‘s take on Dr. Who:

I saw the occasional episode in which, generally speaking, the world was attacked by teapots.

and

It’s a law – well at least a guideline – in writing plays that if somebody is going to be killed with an axe in the third act, then the axe should be visible hanging on the wall in the first act, and, for the hard of thinking, should be the subject of a line of dialogue that would go something like “you shouldn’t leave that around, it could do someone a mischief.”