...and that is amusingly accurate: http://psychcentral.com/personality-patterns/

( I am a rock. I am a very nerdy island. )

San Francisco car chase in Bullitt > > San Francisco car chase in Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine.

This evening at dinner, in the process of answering the very important question, "How far is Dunkin Donuts from here?" spouse asked, "So, wait, if you double both the legs of a right triangle, does the hypotenuse also double ( Read more... )

Maybe it's because I'm sleep-deprived and punchy, or perhaps it's the gratuitous octopus reference, but this makes me really happy:

( Where are you, my ratty-assed Compadre? )

[Yeah, okay, so I said I was gonna post these, like, two weeks ago, but then... I only got halfway into writing the post, and it was time to go out of town for a week, and... yeah. But better late than never, I hope!]

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More good guesses came in yesterday, with one of the previous unguessed ones finally identified and some reasonably close guesses on the others. Let's see if Round Three clears up any more of them for ya....

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I've been very amused so far by the answers coming in on Round 1 of the '80s Music Video Quiz. There've been a lot of correct answers -- among you, I think you've gotten all but three of them after the first round (and a few of you appear to have been as obsessive about '80s videos as I was) -- as well as some good guesses that went wrong in ways ( Read more... )

Over the weekend this struck me as an amusing thing to do -- and then I mentioned it to bushi7 and drives_a_mini and they thought it sounded fun, too, so....

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...if Crookshanks is breeding an army, he might be interested to know there's an armorer that might meet his needs.

On Saturday we saw Ben Folds at the Murat. I'd been excited to see Ben Folds in a venue with good acoustics since the only other time I saw him live, at Bonnaroo several years ago. This weekend's show turned out to be almost but not quite what I was hoping for -- a good show full of great performances of songs I love, but marred by a muddy mix ( Read more... )