I worked with a guy named Michael Peterson. He said he would get some weird looks when he went to vote.

I feel like Calvin and a lot of the Reformation types were reacting to a culture that was focusing too much on deeds (like the prototypical indulgences) as a substitute for faith. But they swung the pendulum too far the other way, where now anti-deeds are what passes for faith. Balance is key.

If my last name was Ogyny, I'd name my child Pro.

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Bring back an innovation from 1980's basketball: short shorts.

You need velcro for that, which wasn't invented until the 3rd century when the Romans invented it to help with naval combat. The so-called Oar Crow (or, to give it it's latin name, the Vel Corvus) helped hold ships together. And that's where we get velcro.

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This physics problem came to me in a dream. Now it's your problem, too.

I saw a Cracker / CVB show at the cats cradle a few years ago and when CVB came out, they said it's nice to know they're still a college band. Now it's professors rather than students, though