Invincible Muffin Productions

Jet-Propelled Pen Parts

Jet-Propelled Pen Parts: the division of Invincible Muffin Productions wherein is stored the random stuff that couldn't find a proper home elsewhere: humor, games, images, musings, and general whateverness.

The name “Jet-Propelled Pen Parts” comes from Gene. One day the Invincible Muffin CEO was trying to write a memo with a retractable ballpoint pen I'd gotten as a free giveaway from the local pagan-goods shop, and it fell apart. I tried replacing all the parts but must have gotten them in in the wrong order. As I clicked the pen to write with it, the top part shot off and pen parts rocketed across the room like an ink-filled missle - narrowly missing Gene. Having just avoided death - or at least a little black mark on his cheek, Gene exclaimed; “What the hell was that? Jet-propelled pen parts?”

Stuff

• Risperdal Anecdote: an involved anecdote about pharmecutical company swag and "the #1 prescribed antipsychotic in the U.S.". When you're done with that, check out http://www.nofreelunch.org/ - Just say “no” to drug reps.

• The Room 309 Memorial Gallery of Natural History and Physiology:   Stephanie L. - it only took me 5 years, but I finally put it up. Educational photo-narratives involving gummiworms (1.14 M), more gummiworms (1.14 M), and a nine-inch nail (1.14M).

• For Nancy, the Agent from H.A.R.M.: the Albino Squirrel of RPI Photo Gallery.
  • Albino Squirrel caught in a Mission: Impossible moment (616 K)
  • Albino Squirrel in autumn foliage (2.6 M)
  • Albino Squirrel overseeing his domain (105 M)
  • Albino Squirrel ascending ivy (103 M)
  • Albino Squirrel climbing ivy (1.33 M)

  Read the Times Union's Dec. 5. 2000 article about the Albino Squirrel, RPI has squirrelly affection for Alby.

• The Last Words of Dutch Schultz. The fevered yet weirdly profound ramblings of a dying gangster.

• I received 49 Things You Would Never Know Without the Movies as one of those unattributable Internet e-mail pass-arounds.

• Another e-mail pass-around, addressed to faux-psychiatrist and media-crank Dr. Laura, “Following the Bible...” can be put into service anytime anybody tells you homosexuality is against the Bible.

• I love missing-info logic puzzles.
  • Possibly the most famous logic puzzle, Albert Einstein supposedly claimed only 2% of the world's population would be able to solve it.
  • Salem-Keizer Public Schools in Oregon has compiled a nifty compendium of logic problems.
  • Or you could tackle my first ever attempt at creating a logic puzzle.

Quotes

~ “We are all interested in the future, because that's where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.”
          Criswell, from the intro to Plan 9 From Outer Space

~ “Blessed are those who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed.”
          Edmund Gwenn, in The Trouble With Harry

~ “There is nothing new beneath the sun.”
          Koheleth. Ecclesiastes 1:9

~ “A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this like lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. Give you an example, show you what I mean: Suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly somebody will say like 'plate', or 'shrimp', or 'plate of shrimp' out of the blue, no explanation. No point for looking for one either. It's all part of the cosmic unconsciousness. ”
          Miller, in Repo Man

~ [Ben Azzai] used to say, “Treat no one lightly and think nothing is useless, for everyone has one's moment and everything has its place. ”
          Pirke Avot 4:3

~ Rabbi Bunam said to his disciples:
“Everyone must have two pockets, so that he can reach into one or the other according to his needs. In his right pocket are to be the words: 'For my sake was the world created,' and in his left: 'I am earth and ashes'. ”
          Tales of the Hasidim, Martin Buber

~ Cras te victurum, cras dicis, Postume, semper.
      Dic mihi, cras istud, Postume, quando venit?
Quam longe est cras istud? ubi est? aut unde petendum?
      Numquid apud Parthos Armeniosque latet?
Iam cras istud habet Priami vel Nestoris annos.
      Cras istud quanti dic mihi possit emi?
Cras vives? Hodie iam vivere, Postume, serum est.
      Ille sapit quisquis, Postume, vixit heri.

Tomorrow you will live, tomorrow, you always say, Postumus.
      Tell me when, Postumus, is that tomorrow coming?
How far away is your tomorrow? where is it? or where must it be sought?
      It doesn't lie hidden among the Parthians and Armenians, does it?
Aready that tomorrow of yours has the years of Priam or Nestor.
      Tell me, for how much could that tomorrow of yours be bought?
You will live tomorrow? Today it is already too late to live, Postumus;
      he is wise, whoever has lived yesterday, Postumus.
          Epigrams, 5, 58, Martial

~ A SERMON ON ETHICS AND LOVE

     One day Mal-2 asked the messenger spirit Saint 
Gulik to approach the Goddess and request her pres-
ence for some desperate advice.  Shortly afterwards 
the radio came on by itself, and an ethereal female 
Voice said YES?

     "O! Eris!  Blessed Mother of Man!  Queen of 
Chaos!  Daughter of Discord!  Concubine of Confusion!
O!  Exquisite Lady, I beseech You to lift a heavy 
burden from my heart!"

     WHAT BOTHERS YOU, MAL?  YOU DON'T SOUND WELL.

     "I am filled with fear and tormented  with ter-
rible visions of pain.  Everywhere people are hurting 
one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, 
whole societies plunder groups of their own people, 
mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers 
war.  O, woe."

     WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THAT, IF IT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?

     "But nobody wants it!  Everybody hates it."

     OH.  WELL, THEN STOP.

At which moment She turned Herself into an as-
pirin commercial and left The Polyfather stranded 
alone with his own species.

                                  Principia Discordia
 

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