I do love teh silly, and if it's encased in the validating form of an annual event, it's just so much more Official!

So, I should start a calendar, or at least a list.  Two things that are, I believe, Internet spawned are:

September 19th:  "Talk Like a Pirate Day"
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Y'know how sometimes you'll be running your tongue over your teeth and you'll find some new point or edge that you don't remember being there before?  Don't you hate that?

Oh, and don't you hate not being able to afford to go to the dentist?  Yeah, national health care would be a fucking tragedy, Republican assholes.

Well, dang: years past I always sorta liked David Broder's writing. Shame on me. Guess I wasn't really paying attention.

yugk. i ghob teh floo. yukkers ( Read more... )

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The Inaugural Greenwood Acoustic Jam went pretty well, IMO.  You can check the particulars on the Yahoo! Group, if it still exists.

I'll keep a list here of things to improve:

1. Practice playing SLOWLY (!!!  Surprisingly hard when you just spent two years trying to play a tune as fast as possible.)
2. Arrive 30 minutes early for setup.
3. Make the circle ( Read more... )

"Thank YOU, Freecycle Seattle!"

Just when my printer finally gave up the ghost, Freecycle had a posting for a free LCD printer* in my neighborhood!  Snagged that puppy up, and after a bit of driver confusion (which even more confusingly apparently sorted itself out) have it working, just in time for printouts for my acoustic jam session.

Freecycle, ( Read more... )

Best line of the night:
"Aren't the lights pretty?  I didn't spend three years watching Queer Eye for nothing!"

What!? You haven't been reading SINFEST?

You are Missing OUT.

Slactivist is a brilliant writer, who features "Left Behind Fridays", in which he dissects and skewers the odious (that's twice today I've been obligated to use 'odious') "Left Behind" series of Christian Rapture fantasy/distopian 'novels' (for want of a better term: screed? Polemic? Campfire tinder?).  The consensus among sane people who value ( Read more... )