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This year's BNAT Application
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Movies Rob Should Have Seen Sooner #1
Carlito's Way
Although, you know, if there's one movie I don't need, it's one whose moral seems to be, "you know that loser you used to be? You're fucking stuck with him. Suck on it, jackass.In lighter news, I've never been happier to see Sean Penn die ( Read more... ) -
Election Season in The Village
I've got The Prisoner playing in the background today, and just hit one of my favorite exchanges from the whole series, which seems especially pertinent just now ( Read more... ) -
MacHeist: Referral Please?
So, no arm-twisting, but if any of you Mac fiends were considering the MacHeist bundle anyway, I'd appreciate if you'd use my referral link (https://www.macheist.com/buy/invite/32979) to get there. I'm sort of interested in trying out Circus Ponies Notebook, which takes two referral purchases ( Read more... ) -
Who's My Candidate?
It's going around, so here:
80% Chris Dodd
78% Mike Gravel
77% Hillary Clinton
76% John Edwards
76% Barack Obama
73% Joe Biden
70% Dennis Kucinich
70% Bill Richardson
49% Rudy Giuliani
40% John McCain
37% Tom Tancredo
34% Ron Paul
33% Mike Huckabee
31% Mitt Romney
22% Fred Thompson
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching QuizFunny how everybody I've seen is topping ( Read more... ) -
So Sick Of This Shit
For the past couple of years I have been unable to do automated kiosk check-ins at the airport. I've only been flying American (by coincidence), and I figured maybe it was just an issue with them.
Not so. This morning I found out that I particularly cannot check in online for a Southwest flight. I was on the phone with smallerdemon who did the same thing ( Read more... ) -
WOOHOO
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BNAT 9 Application
Well, as the entry deadline has passed, here is my complete application for Butt-Numb-A-Thon 9. I have been trying for a few years. This year I am grouping my entry with smallerdemon and p1aceboeffect in the hopes of basking in their reflected coolness.
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Cuckoo for Commercials
Via John K's blog, here's a collection of old Cocoa Puffs commercials. It surprised me to learn that Sonny once had a grandfather. More surprising was that Gramps seems to have been a sadistic old man cruelly manipulating a young cuckoo's tragic dissociative psychosis for his own purposes.
Very short step from those ads to ( Read more... ) -
Word Nerd Warning
People* commonly argue whether one should use "email" or "e-mail" when referring to electronic mail. I am fairly sure it doesn't matter, not least because both are wrong. Why not...
Contraction: e'mailThis may have a problem owing to the regional differences in pronouncing "electronic," which can start with a long e, short e or schwa. I don't ( Read more... )
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