Disney’s retrofitting It’s a Small World, Pirates of the Carribean, Pinocchio, and Alice In Wonderland rides in order to keep the boats from bottoming out.

The Closer to the Bone

Baby Got Back

You decide.

You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom it gets a slight shock and walks away… a rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.

I am rereading “On Being the Right Size” by J. B. S. Haldane over lunch and am once again struck by the succinctness with which he describes those effects, as I am every time I read it. My mind boggles at how utterly perfect those few words in their insinuation of the associated visuals.

If you haven’t read it, I’d suggest that you do. As Prof. Kurose suggested in his computer networking class, where I first read this essay, these lessons apply to everything.

http://www.physlink.com/Education/essay_haldane.cfm

Snakes On A Muthafuckin’ Plane

Guess which well-known person wrote the following poem:

Glass Box
You know, it’s the old glass box at the—
At the gas station,
Where you’re using those little things
Trying to pick up the prize,
And you can’t find it.
It’s—

And it’s all these arms are going down in there,
And so you keep dropping it
And picking it up again and moving it,
But—

Some of you are probably too young to remember those—
Those glass boxes,
But—

But they used to have them
At all the gas stations
When I was a kid.

The Answer May Surprise You