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I was reviewing the difference between venom and poison with Alaric and Treanna earlier: Me: Okay, so if you got stung by a bee, is that venom or poison? Treanna: Venom! Me: Right! If you got bit by a snake? Alaric: Venom! Me: Very good! What if you drank a jar of formaldehyde? Treanna: Poison! Me: What about eating toadstools? Alaric: ...

Devin's First Net Adage: You can lead a geek to a hyperlink, but you can't make him click it. Addendum: Unless, of course, he's using Internet Explorer.

I gave up dryer sheets for Lent.

[Editor's note: this Artist Matchup is inspired by a bit of a phone conversation between Steph, our friend Andrew, and me.] Announcer: Tonight, on Artist Matchup: Escher vs. Picasso! Announcer: In this corner, the mathematically brilliant and recursive M. C. Esher! Announcer: And in this...corner...noted cubist, Pablo Picasso! Escher: Hey, ...

Thanks to Ken Burnside of Ad Astra Games and the magic of the Pyramid chat, I now know this special bit of ferret lore: AdAstraGames says, ''In general the number of excess ferrets in the household goes up at the square of the number of actual ferrets in the house.  Thus, one ferret is one too many.  Two ferrets are four too many, three ferrets ...

Introducing a new category of my blog: Brainlets. After all, my brain is scary, and I need to share that with you. Besides, Steph has been threatening to hurt me if I don't start keeping a blog of all the random weird shit I come up with and use to make her laugh. So, here's the first brainlet: Random X Table. A few months back, Steph found ...