Angels with guns.

So Snowball walked under my feet and went ballistic when I inadvertently stepped on him.
I am bleeding in at least four places on my left wrist.

I have a coupon for a free US Airways RT ticket anywhere in the US, a vacation from about Feb 26 - March 8, nowhere in particular I have to be, and just about no money. Any fun ideas, anyone?

A war is being fought across the Sea of Japan. Not a war of weapons or words or industry, but a war of silly, well-publicized superstitions.

South Korea vs. Japan!

golbez0x (1:50:13 PM): I'm going home for the weekend
golbez0x (1:50:22 PM): I left Snowball with about 2 days worth of food
golbez0x (1:50:25 PM): he already ate most of it
golbez0x (1:50:29 PM): I wish I was kidding

Got my new "1TB" drive all set up. (Really closer to 900GB, but who's counting? Me, dammit, and 1TB = 2^40 bytes, not that sorry 10^12 nonsense!)

Um, anyway.

I hadn't formatted a hard disk in years and almost forgot that I'd have to enter a volume label, so I paused to think of an appropriate one, and...

Volume in drive T is BIGGUS_DISKUS

Put your MP3 player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title."I Am a Lonely Visitor, I Came Too Late to Cause a Stir ( Read more... )

Happy New Year, everyone.

Saw some good articles on alternative medicine today. One is pretty straightforward, nothing new, but impressive in that it made it to the WSJ. Another is satirical, in the same vein as intelligent falling. I'm hoping that whatever health plan we end up with supports honest, sound research into new developments without ( Read more... )

Emerson's Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.

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