An economist visits a site where a canal is being dug. He asks the foreman why the workers are digging with shovels, when a diesel-powered excavator could do the work of a hundred men. The foreman explains that the canal is a jobs project.

The economist exclaims, “Why didn’t you say that it was a jobs project earlier?! These men should be digging with spoons!”

But Profit and Lace has Rom teaching us to glide when we walk, and when we sit we should remember to keep our knees touching, and relax our shoulders but keep our butts tight!

Or William H. Macy

A man is basically as faithful as his options.

–Chris Rock, Bigger and Blacker

*I don’t like to put gender essentialist assymetries into these things, but then again jokes generally aren’t funny if they aren’t at least a little true.

Oof ouch my bones.

Similar experience: Watching The Matrix in theatre. Neo and Agent Smith face off in the subway.

Right as the newspaper blows by, someone let out an absolutely perfect Ennio Morricone whistle from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Legitimately impressive whistling skills, great volume, perfect pitch. Got a huge laugh.

I find myself wondering if it would have been practical to replicate a viable coffee plant seed from a recorded coffee genome, and then grow coffee beans directly in the ship’s arboretum (assuming for the sake of argument they had one, or could construct one).

But then you’re into how difficult it is to replicate viable coffee growing conditions onboard a ship, and it might not even be more efficient than direct replication anyway.

In fairness, heroin does relieve the symptoms of heroin withdrawal.

That’s the one!

I swear that one of the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not museums is like this.

Beauty and the Beast, Old And New by Terri Windling

Beauty and the Beast was written to introduce young brides to the idea that marrying a gross, hairy, large creature might not be all that bad, and that you might even find things to like about your monster husband and fall in love with him.

Why, you’d have to do it all sneaky-like. Like, have a trusted accomplice take her out in the woods and kill her. Of course, you’d want evidence to be sure, so you’d ask the accomplice to bring you back some essential internal organ, to confirm the kill.

DON’T GET IN THE KILN!

The artist, carefully adding more detail to the castle: “I think this may have awakened something in me.”

Haven’t watched a movie in a while, but the last show I watched was Star Trek: DS9…

…and the I love the prospect of a DS9 crossover with Animal Crossing like Damar loves day drinking.