Just saw this telegraph article linked from the GeekGirlCon twitter feed: Card Games and Board Games are Dying out, and it's no Great Loss. As you might expect, a bunch of the comments add up to "You are an idiot and have no idea what you are talking about regarding board games." But he's almost making a point, when he shows that a smaller ( Read more... )

The heat of the day had not made its way inside yet.

"Provisons, we know we're short provisions."

"We all know that. We also know that the heat is coming, and that we need to remain in the shade."

"Shade won't help if we don't have provisions. We need to send out a party."

And thus the decision was made to head out for donuts.

I watch bad movies. Sometimes, I watch bad movies to enjoy the experience of riffing on them, and sometimes I do it to help me appreciate decent movies. In other words, yeah, the Signal didn't change my life, but it had some interesting ideas and entertained me for a couple of hours.

Then there are movies like Lucy. I watch bad movies, but I ( Read more... )

So I used to have this crazy love-hate relationship with the song "Jump Around" by house of pain.

After looking up the lyrics on the inimitable RapGenius, I've ditched the "hate" part of that.

Things that I misheard in Jump Around, by House of Pain:

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• Heard: I've got more rhymes than a cop's got Dunkin Donut shops
• But Really: I've got more rhymes ( Read more... )

There sure is a lot of excitement about Voter ID requirements in the press lately. The discussion breaks down neatly into partisan lines like so:

• PRO: If we require voters to present photo ID, we will reduce fraud.
• CON: Poor people and minorities are the only people likely to be affected like this, making the effects disturbingly partisan/

That's ( Read more... )

Up close, from the sidewalk outside, any skyscraper is enormous. It looms above you like the mountain of everything, and dominates all you can see. The skyscraper is everything. Nobody possibly wanders up to you and wonders what you are looking at, because there isn't anything else there ( Read more... )

It is important to remain focused on the important stuff, and not get lost in trivialities.

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I don't think that this cracked article fully exploits the comic potential of Willow Smith's anthem, so I'm going to have to start just leaving it in comments in code I check in. We'll see how this goes...

for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, but until today I didn't know that I could hear his own recording of Threshold.

YES

When I was in customer service, I thought I was good, but a lot of people I've shared stories with thought that I was somewhat mean or abusive.

The Daily WTF chimes in with an all-time classic in tech support: read the Un-Fix subheading.

Sir? I personally salute you. (The Zebra guy, from the first subheading... is probably just a petulant