Make Me One With Everything

The Dalai Lama walks into a pizza parlor and says “make me one with everything.”

The actual Dalai Lama didn’t get it, but was pretty cool about it.

One commenter mentions:

the REST of the joke is,,,, after handing the clerk a $20 bill against his $12.00 tab, the Dalai Lama says, change pleae. the clerk replies,”” change must come from within””

I like the hot dog version better – also, my more koan-like variant is:

A zen monk asks a hot dog vendor,
“Make me one with everything”
And the vendor says
“Mu”
And the monk is enlightened

I guess I should find a way to make that into a haiku or something.

What now, Netflix?

Netflix tries to come up with categories of movies based on my rental history and on my registered “taste preferences.” The more elaborate these are the more I like them:

Quirky Independent Comedies
Visually-striking Mind-bending Foreign Movies
Mind-bending Independent Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Cerebral foreign dramas
Emotional 20th Century Period Pieces based on a book
Dramas Featuring a Strong Female Lead
Violent Suspenseful Movies
Classic Dark Movies based on classic literature
Scary Foreign Thrillers
Cerebral Independent Gay and Lesbian
Gritty Movies based on contemporary literature
Exciting Cult Movies
Witty Biographical Movies

I don’t think “Priscilla” or “Hedwig” were all that “cerebral.” Maybe it’s keying off of “I Shot Andy Warhol” and “Happy Together.”

Ghost Gun

According to the Haunted Pittsburgh Ghost Tours, there’s a library donated by Carnegie that was built over a mass grave. The library is, of course, haunted, notably by the image of a young boy. The ghost has been identified with a boy who died many decades ago, whose headstone was on display.

BRAIN: you ever notice how all the paranormal investigations emulate a “scientific” approach rather than an “engineering” one?
KIRBY: how is that?
BRAIN: I mean usually there’s these guys running around with sensors and recording equipment… trying to quantify the ghost, or an effect or something. And it never works.
KIRBY: Definitely
BRAIN: But in engineering, you’re not so concerned with the “why” of it – you just take a known effect and employ it to get a desired outcome. So what if instead of trying to research the mechanism of ghosts, you just use what you know…
KIRBY: with the boy’s headstone?
BRAIN: yeah, like if one headstone on display makes the library kinda haunted… I bet fifty headstones would make it much MORE haunted. Two hundred even.
KIRBY: You could put the headstones in certain patterns, and make a “ghost gun.”
BRAIN: …what would a “ghost gun” even do?
KIRBY: I don’t know, but it would be awesome!

Well I hope you’re happy boys, this library is completely unusable now

GroupOn

SHAC: …but after watching it she sounds like she was pretty unprepared and didn’t do any homework either
SHAC: i expected her to tell a story about how groupon screwed her over but it seems like it was only 1/2 their fault
BRAIN: or 1/4 their fault after markup
SHAC: holy hell i just realized i only watched part 1 of 5
SHAC: f this
SHAC: attention span done
BRAIN: your attention span is discounted to 20%
SHAC: sigh