- Crystal Harris, 25, and Playboy Magazine founder Hugh Hefner, 85, are no longer headed to the altar. Hef tweeted that Crystal had a change of heart. I would have thought Hef more likely to have a “change of heart” as in transplant.
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The word “small” has 66-percent more letters than the word “big.”
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If you waste any time at all browsing the Internet, you may have come across one or more of the websites purporting to be the last page of the Internet. Some of them are funny, but I don’t think anyone has it right. I believe that if anyone does reach the real last page of the Internet, the results will be similar to the ending of Arthur C. Clarke’s Hugo Award-winning short story, “The Nine Billion Names of God,” which ends, “Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.”
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If you haven’t read this classic Clarke story, look it up. The entire text is available on line. You’ll probably love the ending. He wasn’t kidding when he called it a “short story:” It really is very short. And the story is almost 60-years old, so a little historical perspective is needed. When it was written, taking a computer to a monastery in Tibet involved enormously more work than stuffing it in your backpack and hopping a jet.
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Rep. Anthony Weiner hasn’t gone away yet, but I’m still hoping. On Sunday, new pictures were (okay, I can’t resist a bad pun and there really isn’t any point in any other kind) uncovered. They depict a partially clothed Rep. Weiner standing in the House gym, grabbing his crotch. Perhaps, in those pictures he’s expressing a desire to become a big league baseball player.
