Anyone else going to this? Philadelphia, June 19-21?

I already have reservations at Morimoto for Friday and Saturday night...

So yesterday I'm getting ready to watch a Blu Ray, and my PS3 starts acting wonky. Like, it won't even admit there's a disc inside, won't eject it, and won't turn off. And I'm thinking "great, now this is breaking." Except I finally get the disc out, and put another Blu Ray in, and it works fine. Put the offending disc in, same problems. So I ( Read more... )

( Spoilers, Natch )

( BIG spoilers for this week's episode )

So a whole passel of retired military officers have signed a petition to President Obama asking him to not allow gays to openly serve in the military ( Read more... )

"Sexting," for those who might not know, is the new teenage trend of taking semi-nude or nude photos of oneself and then sending that photo to other teenagers, usually to their cell phones ( Read more... )

Bah: Car repairs came out to $1140, even after all the nice discounts and coupons that I get from my sister because she works for the regional HR office ( Read more... )

In most office environments, the microwave is usually in high demand around lunch time. If someone's cooked lunch is sitting in the microwave, the owner is nowhere around and you're waiting to use the microwave, is it socially acceptable to remove that food, place it to the side, and cook yours? Do you consider there to be a "grace period" during ( Read more... )

I don't think I've ever mentioned this before but I subscribe to Time and I read it cover-to-cover every week (except for the readers mailed-in commentary, which I have no need to review). For a bastion of the liberal media cabal (although not as liberally cabalistic as Newsweek), the magazine has been surprisingly critical of Obama, reflecting ( Read more... )

( Not just about BSG, but there's BSG spoilers herein )