Since edible meals (and even snacks!) on flights are a distant, gut-rumbling memory, it’s critical for the health and well-being of your own personal, frequent-traveling self to know where to find decent food in an airport. And in the all-too-common-and-unhappy event that you’re stuck on the tarmac for three hours (the new limit - are […]
Thanks again for your prolific, often hilarious entries in the How To Know When You Have An Analog Brain t-shirt contest. Here are some of the contenders:
Hard Drive: A road trip with Dad
Flash Drive: Operating a vehicle while naked
Skype: Something Uncle Larry caught and brought home for dinner
MegaHertz: What Wally threatened to do to The […]
Looking for the best TV, digital camera, netbook for yourself or a friend? Not sure where to start? Overwhelmed by variety and tech terms?
For all you Analog Brain in a Digital World types (like myself), who get bewildered by the range and number of choices out there, here’s a helpful site to save you LOADS […]
Analog Brain In A Digital World on a t-shirt just strikes me as amusing. And I can think of lots of people (my mom, for example) who would crack up if they got one as a gift. So I’m premiering t-shirts with my CD release. But as anybody who’s seen me in person knows, I […]
For an American from Kansas, dining with a dozen fast-talking Jamaicans feels like a Bob Marley concert at 78 rpm. It goes by quick, and the accents are thick. You have to pay attention with both ears, all of your brain, and preferably a slang dictionary (Jamaican-to-English).
There are funny words and phrases you haven’t […]
My new CD Analog Brain In A Digital World is coming along as fast as I can hurry it up. We’re now finalizing songs and mixing. I hope to show you a contagiously clever cover cartoon in a week or so.
Meanwhile, as a public service, and for the illumination of your own personal self, I’m […]
The survey results are in…and so are the comments, suggestions, and two bits worth from nearly 1,000 of you. Thanks to all who participated! You can scroll down to get the results and some selected comments from the survey. (Note: these are only about 10% of the comments received…)
But first…
LISTEN AND VOTE: […]
Recently I read about a fascinating two-question study that demonstrates how people who tend to be “liberal” or “conservative” are actually wired differently. It’s all in the brain.
The questions:
Would you slap your father during a skit if he gave you permission?
Does it disgust you to touch the faucet in a public restroom?
If you answered yes […]
The following words are a tiny sample of over 2,035 (!) that were introduced (invented, coined) by one person. Do you know, or can you guess who made ‘em up? (Answer below…)
cranny
forefathers
aggragate (verb)
beautified
abstemious
antipathy
critical
dwindle
extract
horrid
vast
excellent
eventful
barefaced
assassination
lonely
leapfrog
indistinguishable
well-read
zany
and countless others, including “countless.”
This person was especially prolific at attaching the prefix “un” to words to form previously unconsidered forms:
unmask, […]
We’re invited to a swank hotel lobby, given beverages, finger food, and aprons. An excellent musician plays piano in the background. Lots of upscale people are milling around, waiting, like us. Finally, a chef from California instructs us to line up according to table numbers, and to put our hand on the shoulder of the […]
