For those of you who aren't Futurama addicts, the weblog name comes from the episode "The Problem With Popplers". Here are some framegrabs and sound clips.By way of explanation: the episode riffs on the lack of available names in the future; the only names left for the snack food are "popplers" or "tasteicles". Similarly, chrism and I have joked that there aren't any real, uncopyrighted, available domain names-- this is why you wind up with crap names like Vericity and Genuity (blargh). It makes about as much sense as popplers.com.
So, here's my problem: some fargin' domain name squatter has absconded with http://www.popplers.com/-- and hasn't even done anything cool or Futurama-related with it. It's just a stupid portal site. Assholes.
Anybody interested in going to the Peabody Essex Museum to see the Shackleton exhibit? I would like to go on Thursday, Sept. 7th (they're open 'til 8 pm on Thursdays).In August 1914 Ernest Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven sailors and scientists left Britain for the Antarctic on the Endurance, planning to cross the Antarctic on foot. Only 80 miles from Endurance's destination, the ship was caught in thick pack ice that eventually splintered and sank it. The men set up camp on ice floes that drifted on a frigid sea 2,000 fathoms deep. Eventually they managed to sail lifeboats to Elephant Island, one of the most uninhabitable islands on earth. Because the men were faced with sure death, Shackleton and a handful of his strongest men took the lifeboat James Caird 800 miles to South Georgia Island. The seventeen-day trip was unimaginably grueling.[...]
If neither of those sound like your cup of tea, how about Solas at the Somerville Theater on September 30th? Solas is also playing the Troy Music Hall with Cherish the Ladies on Sunday, November 12th.
Lileks on cartoons: "I love dogs, but I'd cross the street to put Scooby Down. Rooby rooby doo! [BANG]
Rooby rut shot! Rooby reeding rofusely!"
