I've heard many a people rave about Pandora, the online radio thinger that you somewhat control through picking base songs/artists. They pick music that you might like based on your picks and this algorithm they call the musical genome project. These are the main reasons why Pandora and I just, well, aren't all that compatible ( Read more... )

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25677373/

I <3 conservatives, especially homophobic ones. As a gay person, I wouldn't visit South Carolina for touristic reasons, like, ever. I get scared visiting my family. I also wouldn't visit as a Jew (sorry Alexis) or as a person who believes ( Read more... )

http://gothamist.com/2008/07/08/american_flight_to_laguardia_cancel.php

My guess is that the flight crew had spent a little too much time at the airport bar...

So June 25th, decision day re: my old bike, is rapidly drawing near. In response, my brain was like, "must scour CraigsList for a new good used bike!" So thats what I'd been doing for about a day when I came across an ad for a "trex" mountain bike. Thank gd that guy can't spell ( Read more... )

Zola's new best friend is a house centipede she keeps pawing to keep in her sight, while it ever more feebly tries to wobble away on some of the 7 remaining (of 30 original) legs ( Read more... )

So to make up for the fight last night about money and bikes and cars, Mom and I went shopping today. Larchmont was having it's annual sidewalk sale. I got a good deal on a plastic storage thing for Zach's new apartment (old yogurt containers, be gone!)
One of the things we were specifically heading to was the new bookstore in Larchmont, The ( Read more... )

You all might get a kick out of this site:
http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=78

Enjoy!

So I would guesstimate that about half of my friends list is into Sci Fi/Fantasy/Anime/Steam Punk and is of the con-attending type. And you all range from straight 'n married to the queeniest queen the IDF will have ever seen, with just about everything in between. And since most of you also identify as liberals in some fashion, ranging from the ( Read more... )

So just to give you an idea of how temporary living at my parents was supposed to be... I never unpacked the majority of my boxes from moving. Most of my boxes are books, as anyone who helped me move can begrudgingly attest. Those boxes of my beloved books are currently haphazardly arranged in my parents' garage, where my loving parents ever so ( Read more... )

There is nothing, NOTHING, like getting woken up by the sounds of a dog puking off the side of the bed at SIX fucking TWENTY in the AM on the ONLY day of the week where it wouldn't have killed me to sleep until like 11. WTF, dog, WTF....