Regular Singular Points

I’ve been fooling around with the hoverSmack technology developed for the forgetFoo.com web site.  I wanted to combine it with the context menu developed for the AlphaFilter site with the goal of adding the capability of selecting any text on the web site and popping up a context menu that allows you to search for images, video, news and general webbiness.  I had to glue a lot of things together and it certainly isn’t perfect, but it actually works.  Select some text on this site and use your right mouse button (if you have one) to pop up the menu.  Here’s some things to search for:

Monica Bellucci

kate moss

SI Swimsuit Edition

Once, after I used the American term “Brown Noser”, I had an unusual conversation with my mother in law. Her argument was that the Irish equivalent, Lick Arse, was much less disagreeable. My point was that you’d have to use your tongue on someone’s arse. Her point was that Brown Noser fully specified where the nose went, but Lick Arse never mentions where the tongue would go. It could be any part of the arse, not necessarily a part that would make it brown.

I conceded her point.

I can hardly believe it, but the American television program “My Name is Earl” used Harry Nilsson’s “Joy” in a sequence of the show. I knew the song from the first note.  “Joy” is the third song on Nilsson’s 1972 record “Son of Schmilsson” (also available in the UK). “Son of Schmilsson” is one of those rare records that doesn’t have a bad song. I still have, and listen to, the lp, but maybe it’s time to acquire the cd version. If you’ve never heard of Harry Nilsson, you should buy this record instead of some lame Greatest Hits package.

The “hit” on the record would have been Remember (Christmas), which was also the un-official theme song of the Beyond our Control television program that I was involved with in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s.

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