Part of an entry in one of the comms I'm watching:

"I've just purchased the new tea action-film (!) "Tea Fight" which is about a early Soong Dynasty style tea competition between the makers of Golden Male Tea and Golden Female Tea and the bloody multi-generational feud that follows"

O-OMG WHY DO I NOT OWN THIS FILM YET WHERE CAN I GET IT THIS IS ( Read more... )

#167) Print out your hand-out for that presentation you're having in three hours. Protip: if the printer just won't stop after 20 minutes, check how many copies you told it to do.
Also: 50 does not equal 25.

WELL THERE GOES MY TONER!

Today I did a little tidying up. I found one (1) sheqel and 25 pesetas.

Look out, Bill Gates, here I come!

Samuel P. Langley.

Not only did he appoint himself as a curator of an exhibition-room he created, but he also wrote a letter to himself accepting the position.

Just, look at this. I mean, come on:

The secretary of the Smithsonian [that's Langley] has been pleased to confer upon me [that's Langley, too] the honorable but arduous duties of the ( Read more... )

Quite long, but it's really worth watching. I got the sudden urge to get up at the end for the standing ovation, despite sitting behind a computer screen.

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Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation ( Read more... )

I just woke up with a spider in my hair. A spider. In my hair. A spider in my hair!

The flailing, she was intense and totally undignified.

I have a font on my computer called "Hobo STD"
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How peculiar.

Religious studies = Death by reading.
's true.