Ali Hassan

I’m traveling at the end of this week, so I paid a visit to the TSA’s website to see what I can and cannot take on the aeroplane. I got sidetracked and started reading their information on service animals. There’s actually a section on how to screen a helper monkey which includes the following nugget:

• The inspection process may require that the handler take off the monkey’s diaper as part of the visual inspection.

Here’s my question: if you’re in a situation where you need a helper monkey, how do they expect you to be able to change its diaper? Does the monkey change himself? Do you need two helper monkeys, one to change the other’s diaper? Or perhaps, as a friend of mine suggested, the helper monkey has a helper squirrel to assist him?

When I was a boy we were not allowed to set off fireworks at home. Well, we were up until I managed to get a little burn on my foot from an out of control roman candle when I was about five or so. Then it was pretty much over for us.

One year though, through hours of wheedling and complaining, we managed to convince my mother to get us some fireworks for Guy Fawke’s night. Since we had been denied for so long the anticipation was palpable. Little did we know. [ more … ]

The fried whiting with french fries at Oohs and Aahs (10th and U) is, far and away, the best fish and chips in the Washington, D.C., metro area. Bar none.

Here’s the WordPress template that I created for my MySpace layout generator, for anyone who’s interested in adding it to their site. To get the DHTML colour picker to work, you will need to install ColourMod.

Download here.

While I don’t necessarily think the negative effects are as great as some have claimed, I’ve generally been in agreement with the position that children today are exposed to far more violence in the media than I was when I was younger.

Then I stumbled upon this gallery of covers from early issues of Commando magazine, a comic book that I used to pick up in second-hand book stores. Frankly, I am astounded at the bloodthirstiness. Not to mention the xenophobia.