Randi.Org gives Crystal Head vodka a zero out of five.

Q: Can people who identify as "skeptics" enjoy anything that isn't giving their ego a reach-around?

FWIW, this vodka is smoother in the mouth than anything I have ever drank ever.

And no one in the comments has had any, but they all agree it tastes bad.

Skeptic?

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Met with the ol' surgeon the other day. Looks like we can plan the limited vivisection for about three months from now, and I'll have limited mobility for a couple months afterwards. Huzz... ah... I suppose. It was a bit disappointing. I guess because meds have me basically stable that this is technically an elective surgery, which means the ( Read more... )

Saw Ides of March the other day. It was actually really beautiful half the time. The other half, the shots had a weird kind of tension in them, but I was crushing on Gosling enough to be charitable and consider the tension intentional. In either case, good on Clooney: I think he may be capable of direction ( Read more... )

I had an interesting hypnagogic experience last night, illustrating what has been called, in reference to certain neurological disorders, the 'left hemisphere interpreter ( Read more... )

Stuart Townsend: Y/N?

I really want to like him, as I think he's cute, plus he does some goofy genre and Canadian productions which is always endearing, plus I'm inclined to solidarity with those of dark irish enfeaturement. But I regret to find his acting a bit uninspired.

I've been watching him in this French-Canadian series XIII. It's not ( Read more... )

Also, I had another funny dream. It wasn't a false-waking though.

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Also, I had a really funny false-waking dream this morning ( Read more... )

Philosophical reflection following dental work:

Consciousness might be the sentiment of activity, but self-consciousness is the sentiment of a point of coincidence between activity with passivity ( Read more... )

Bunny news: big old bunny (hare, but we'll say bunny) was hanging about all day, so I tried to make friends with him. I thought it was weird that he was about in mid afternoon and so stoic about my presence, but I figured--well, this imagines I was thinking, which obviously I wasn't--that he was just particularly tame and looking for food, ( Read more... )

Sometimes I get so mad that Shinichirō Watanabe won't do another series that I just start banging my head against the desk and moaning.