Dear Marketers: They're Wolfberries here, not Goji berries. Quit bastardizing someone else's word for something that you brought here from China to sell to gullible people by way of outlandish nutritional claims about an unremarkable fruit ( Read more... )

Don't let the totally faaabulous preview fool you, Stardust is an awesome movie, you should see it.

I liken it to films such as Time Bandits and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, I tip my hat to thee, Neil Gaiman.

I got my hands on Psychonauts for the first time recently, it's an excellent game, worthy of it's heritage ( Read more... )

It's raining again.

Hurray for global warming.

So, I was thinking to myself, suppose there is a heaven and hell, would people who go there appear as they did at the time of their death? That might get awkward.

An interesting side effect of this month of non-stop deluge is that the grapes on the patio are bearing fruit as never before, which while it normally provides an outlet for my urges to scavenge off of wild and possibly dangerous food sources has been too much for me to consume. They are now fermenting en masse and have attracted a swarm of ( Read more... )

I love my dentist, he always gives me heroic doses of novacaine, disregards safety regulations about biohazardous waste in my favor(he not only gave me my wisdom tooth but drilled a hole in it for me to make a necklace out of it), and makes off-color jokes while he's working on me ( Read more... )

Hurray for South Africa!

That's gold right there, she needs to take up a career in prop comedy.

The Tuberculosis skin test is so cool, I can't wait to be an EMT and have access to needles and fun things to inject little bubbles of right under the skin ( Read more... )

Just finished watching Sunshine, the very base facts of the movie make it a bit unbelievable, as the movie seems to suggest that it is in a phase closest described as a white dwarf, which would only occur after it became a red giant and killed us all millions or billions of years prior ( Read more... )