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Playgirl magazine, you've probably read by now, has officially ceased publication. I never actually bought it, but it's still a little sad. That special knowledge that I could get a magazine full of naked dudes anytime I wanted? Gone ( Read more... )

Sometimes, you're going through your iTunes making a Moving Mix, you come across "Gangsta's Paradise," and you sincerely don't remember how you got it.

Because apparently I would rather do things so I can cross them off rather than because they actually need to be done.

(Also, because I'm actually not that into having nothing to do. I'm much more into having stuff to do, but doing nothing instead. It's a fine distinction but an important one.)

Now sing "We are the Village Green Preservation Society" like you're country-phase Bob Dylan ( Read more... )

I played piano competitively in high school. Yep, it's possible, and yeah, I won some shit. I also played duets, and my duet partner (whose name was also Alex) was one of Those People. She played piano AND violin really well--for a while she was the best high school violin player in the state. She got straight A's. She played tennis for her school ( Read more... )

Since the iPhone came out, Henry has been talking about them. Ceaselessly. In the last couple of months, this has gone from "They're nice but no way! So expensive," to "Maybe someday I will think about it," to "When my current phone dies," to "OMG RIGHT NOW RIGHT NOW ( Read more... )

It's the grammar police!

I'm taking a grant writing class, and in some literature (not directly from the class) on "style," it recommended that we not use the passive tense. No worries there!

To everyone who answered "What's wrong with this LOLcat?" correctly from my last post--which, technically, was everyone, though the answer I was looking for was "Cerberus was definitely not in the Illiad,"--I have a fittingly nerdy present for you.

The Latin Wikipedia.

Enjoy feeling ashamed at how bad your Latin has gotten.

Find the error:


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