BillHeise | March 3, 2011
For anyone who is curious why I like to combine comedy with my deeper thoughts (if there are any) in Poker Tales, it’s because I wasn’t a very good student until I was 17. Then I learned there there were serious thinkers thinking serious thoughts. But 3 years earlier I had discovered the following Monty [...]
BillHeise | September 26, 2010
I found this story on the Internet today. It’s another story about grammar mavens–this time it’s Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post– pronouncing the English language dead. The English language, which arose from humble Anglo-Saxon roots to become the lingua franca of 600 million people worldwide and the dominant lexicon of international discourse, is dead. [...]
BillHeise | September 23, 2010
The best show I never watched was a series called Better Off Ted. I discovered it by accident at the end of last year’s television season just in time for it to get canceled (I watched one show). It was a funny show that had the bad luck to have been picked up by ABC, [...]
BillHeise | September 21, 2010
Found this article entitled “We can build whatever animal you want to eat, say scientists.” “For future applications out there the sky’s the limit,” David Edwards of the Biotechnology Industry Association said. “If you can imagine it, scientists can try to do it.” That IS good news! I only want to eat parts of various [...]
BillHeise | September 9, 2010
Found this on the Internet today. It’s a story about a “How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse” class being offered at the University of Baltimore. The newly-installed course will study film, comics and a full range of topics connected to Zombies and Zombie Survival, although it will probably sneakily make students learn about story telling [...]
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BillHeise | July 6, 2010
…and I’m still traumatized. The good stuff starts at 0:55 and continues through 1:20 or so. What was wrong with my teachers?
BillHeise | July 2, 2010
I thought these were funny. Hope you do, too. The first video is of Lindsey Lohan’s e-harmony ad. The second is of Justin Bieber.
BillHeise | May 4, 2010
From the television series starring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. This will give the knowing an excellent introduction into the plot lines of this great series, and should mystify the rest of you. Netflix has all four seasons of the series for rent under the title Jeeves and Wooster.
