If you’d like to toss a few bucks toward folks who had little and now have nothing, this would be a good time.

    I’ve never been to Java, but in my one brief visit elsewhere in Indonesia I was treated with more friendliness than I knew how to react to. (Some of this, no doubt, was because I was a relatively     well-off tourist, and thus a possible source of income, granted. But I do think a great deal of it was just general human decency.)

    I’ve put a long list of reputable charities currently active in helping out the people of Yogyakarta at left. You can scope these out or find others via the Charity Navigator, and find out more

You’ll notice quite a few changes around here. We’re updating the look a little. It might mutate a few times in the new few weeks. So enjoy that.

Also, you’ll notice that Prisoner of Trebekistan, my new humor book about not winning so many times on a certain quiz show, and how stuffing a whole slew of seemingly-disconnected info into your head can have unexpected effects, is now available for pre-ordering.

The book is already getting some crazy-nice blurbs from people I admire so much I could plotz. But more about that later. Lots more.

For now, if you’d like a copy, you can be the first kid on the block to pre-order. Then brag to your friends about it if you like.

Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Baby springbok!

Let me also add for emphasis: baby springbok! 

If you’ve never seen the pronking display in person, put it on your list.  Springboks zip along at high speed and then ZING! they’re practically flying ten feet in the air, visually announcing to all potential predators, “hey, look at me! I said, LOOK AT ME! I’m so quick and agile and nimble! Don’t even think about trying to chase me down. LOOK AT ME!  I rule!“

That’s what this little guy is about to start doing.  Fabulous.

Now go have a wonderful long weekend.

Thanks to alert reader Matt.
 

PS — Yes, all springboks look a little like Shelley Duvall.

This is an evolutionary adaptation that helps them get away from Jack Nicholson, if they’re ever trapped with him in an old hotel.

Nature is so cool. 

Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Baby springbok!

Let me also add for emphasis: baby springbok! 

If you’ve never seen the pronking display in person, put it on your list.  Springboks zip along at high speed and then ZING! they’re practically flying ten feet in the air, visually announcing to all potential predators, “hey, look at me! I said, LOOK AT ME! I’m so quick and agile and nimble! Don’t even think about trying to chase me down. LOOK AT ME!  I rule!“

That’s what this little guy is about to start doing.  Fabulous.

Now go have a wonderful long weekend.

Thanks to alert reader Matt.
 

PS — Yes, all springboks look a little like Shelley Duvall.

This is an evolutionary adaptation that helps them get away from Jack Nicholson, if they’re ever trapped with him in an old hotel.

Nature is so cool. 

When Munster scrum-half Peter Stringer dove across the try line
against Biarritz last weekend, he reminded me of somebody… but I
couldn’t quite place who…

And then I remembered… the Weekly World News!

That’s where I’d seen that facial expression before.