A military recruiter approached me after I got off the In The Groove 2 machine today ( Read more... )

15 years later there is still no open source/freeware GUI tool for extracting files in windows?

Does the entire Windows open-source community have like, a pirated version of WinZip on their computer or what?

Mongolian Grill - a new EP from Kid Whatever! One of the few CDs I can buy myself 20 days before christmas without feeling guilty.

Vinnie, Amy and I are doing the "mix cd exchange" thing again this year.... I've bought about 20 CDs this year, so you would think it would be easy to make a mix CD out of them... but 10 of them were from E-ROTIC... so ( Read more... )

When to pittsburg for the weekend - very fun! Visited one of Gurkie's friends, George, who had a drum set, and we all jammed together (guitar, bass, vocals, drums)... I learned that Percussion Freaks/Drummania actually transfers to a real drum set pretty well. I did about as well on the drum set as I would expect to do on the game (after not ( Read more... )

[a conversation with someone at work]

them: [talking about food during ramadan] would be cruel.
me: I don't know. For something to be cruel, I think it has to involve... umm... effort.
them: I wouldn't say effort. i would say Malice. (miguel chimes in with "malice" too.)
me: "Malice," that's the perfect word! I wish that was in my dictionary.
them: ( Read more... )

A fun game I play in traffic every day (all 90 minutes of it) is to try and anagram car models. Here's a few of my favorites:

1. SCROTE
2. OUTRAGE
3. ORDEAL
4. AVID LOSER
5. INGRATE
6. ASS PAT
7. EXTRA R (not very good, but i still thought it was a little funny. you can't anagram the word because it has an extra R!)As a hint to those of you trying ( Read more... )

three sad things i try not to think about1. from an evolutionary perspective, being gay is a lot like being dead ( Read more... )

Bridge went great! Finished 4th/12 with my partner to earn my first red points (points which are only earned in somewhat serious events, or in tournaments.) Bid very well, played pretty OK.

( Here's a complex hand... )

So a friend and I are doing sets of random DDR songs on shuffle as a friendly tech competition. And not only do we get Xenon twice in a row, but we get the exact same shuffle pattern twice in a row! The way the last five steps went, shuffled, was L-D-R-U, R+U, and we both do the spin both times! It was very weird ( Read more... )

Bridge went OK. Last place i can deal with - i played OK and only totally messed up about 7 boards with minor mistakes across about 10-15 of them. One woman there I spoke with has been playing for 60 years, a number which I find unfathomable. I can't imagine any of my hobbies extended to that frame of time. DDR for 60 years? You'd need some kind of ( Read more... )