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[eating team] El Chupacabra, 2007-01-07
El Chupacabra is on Greenwood Ave, at the point where it mates with Phinney Ave and refuses to give Red Mill Burgers up for adoption. It appears to be a converted house, with a large patio out front and neon beer ads in the window. Inside, it's the sort of place that really should be full of cigarette smoke - red-brown walls, skulls (with Devo hat ( Read more... ) -
I love my language
From the Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year election:
floordrobe noun Colloquial (humorous) a floor littered with discarded clothes, viewed ironically as a clothing storage system. [floor + (war)drobe] -
The Drizzle shell
I think I'll stay logged into Drizzle today and see if anyone else drops by to clean up their stuff. -
Food fight
DessertGoogle hits cake"about 87,400,000" pie"about 146,000,000" -
Striped Sheets
Striped sheets are the best kind for a rectangular mattress size, because you can tell when they are aligned correctly and when they are aligned 90° from correctly.
In related news, the English language Wikipedia article for 'bed' lists no square mattress sizes at all. All are non-square rectangular prisms. Well, I guess if you had a 76in wide US ( Read more... ) -
They Might Be Playing
They Might Be Giants at the Moore on Wednesday September 26. Be there or don't be square. And if we can muster an unruly mob, so much the better. -
Uphill in the snow
From the comments of a recent Slashdot posting entitled Are 80 Columns Enough?:
Re:80 Columns? LUXURY!
by xarak (458209) on Sunday July 08, @05:22AM (#19787571)
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Round and Round
I changed a tire this evening. It was not pleasant:
- The lug nuts were way too tight, because the guys at the dealership with the air tools are jackasses and don't measure the amount of torque they're using.
- The car's lug wrench has a single handle that's about eight inches long. A good lug wrench is longer, which gives you more torque, and a four- ( Read more... )
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It had to happen eventually.
My car's just been in the shop. To address gas mileage issues, they've applied some software updates. They _patched_ my car.
I think that was just an appeasement patching, because the mileage isn't that far off what it should be and they can blow it off as a lead-footed customer issue. We'll see if it works.