Strange Proportion will receive its 25,000th visitor this evening. If you are that visitor, email me to claim your free gift.

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This was posted on one of the professors’ office windows in the math department building. Oh, look at the cute kid drawing! Look at the puppy. Or is it a turtle? Oh wait, pathalogikle feer.

That’s pretty surreal. None of my art student friends could have come up with something that cool if they tried.

Here’s a good use for the otherwise useless digital camera you have on your cell phone: chronicling the funny shit you see when you're out and about. Since I don’t have any time to write anything these days, but I occasionally have time to laugh at the goofy stuff I run across, I can at least share that so you know I'm alive. Here's the first: a beauty shop where you can get a “man haircut.”

Penny prefers oboes to strings. She finds the tones more soothing, she said.