The last one went over so well here's another.

What's the difference between a musician and a government bond?
Government bonds eventually mature and earn money.

What did the drummer get on his IQ test?
Drool.

What's the difference between a conductor and a sack of fertilizer?
The sack.

What's the difference between a symphony conductor and Dr Scholl's footpads?
Dr Scholl's footpads buck up the feet.

What's the difference between a bull and an orchestra?
The bull has the horns in the front and the asshole in the back.

How do you get two viola players to play in tune?
Shoot one of them.

What do you get when you drop a piano down a mineshaft?
A flat minor.

What do you get when you drop a piano on an army base?
A flat major.

What's the least-used sentence in the English language?
"Isn't that the banjo player's Porsche?"

What do you say to a banjo player in a three-piece suit?
"Will the defendant please rise?"

Blackouts in the northeast tonight. Guess where our honeymoon is? New York.

Actually, I'm not too concerned at this point. Power is coming back online. Our plane doesn't leave until Monday, and historically rolling blackouts like this only last a day or two. This isn't like Memphis, where some people are still without power from a tornado more than a month ago. In the Memphis case, lots of infrastructure was damaged.

If worse comes to worse, we'll cancel and go somewhere else. That $74 cancellation insurance sure seems like a bargain now.

I really like the attitude of this guy on Slashdot, discussing the blackout:

Actually with Mars being so close it will give people in big cities a very rare chance to see this site without all the light polution by which they are normally surrounded.

By golly, that's the spirit!

PS Haloscan (the folks who provide comments for my blog) are moving servers and changing IP addresses, so comments are down for some people. Once your ISP/DNS server gets the new IP address, everything should just start working again. I couldn't see comments this morning, but I can see them again now.

A quiz. Which of these twelve quotes are from the so-called "Unabomber Manifesto," and which are from Al Gore's "Earth in the Balance." Here's a sample quote:

Modern industrial civilization, as presently organized, is colliding violently with our planet's ecological system. The ferocity of its assault on the earth is breathtaking, and the horrific consequences are occurring so quickly as to defy our capacity to recognize them, comprehend their global implications, and organize an appropriate and timely response. Isolated pockets of resistance fighters who have experienced this juggernaut at first hand have begun to fight back in inspiring but, in the final analysis, woefully inadequate ways.

I only got 42% right. Scary. Found via Clayton Cramer.