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We were at the grocery store tonight, and there was a cop investigating something.  There was a guy at the self-checkout with four bottles of liquor in a basket.  The cop picked them up and looked at them, and there was someone from the store who showed him a receipt.  The cop walked out; and the guy wit h the basket headed back into the store ( ( Read more... )

We saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall last night.  I hadn't seen any of the previous Judd Apatow movies, so it was mostly new to me... though only mostly; the bumbling yet loveable loser seems to be a standard in movies these days.

It's fun, though it's not jokey... most of the humor comes from Jason Segel acting exactly the way he feels after a hard ( Read more... )

"Bafflers" by Chris Yates:

http://www.chrisyates.net/store/puzz.html

Two bits of awesomeness from jwz today.

Covering large bits of Miami with foam:
http://www.mdolla.com/2008/04/city-in-foam-68-photos-and-1-video.html

And in SF, a live version of Point Break:
http://www.myspace.com/pointbreaklive

"The starring role of  Johnny Utah  is selected  from the audience each night,  and reads their entire script off of cue- ( Read more... )

Remind me not to do any more CARP.

Twice in the last week I've had bad experiences in CARP sims.  I loved the builds themselves... I like dark, detailed post-apocalyptic urban wastelands... and there's people around at most times, which is a big plus in 24/7 RP sims.  But I am not taken with boys whose idea of RP is to be assholes.

I'm in no position ( Read more... )

I don't know this guy, but his blog is full of beautiful pictures of amazing places in SL.

http://caliburnsusanto.livejournal.com/

Tonight we wandered around Osgiliath, hands down the prettiest medieval sim I've seen yet.  Really well done, and huge.  I was wondering how they got the incredibly detailed city in just 10,000 prims... turns out that's ( Read more... )

I wonder about this a lot... like, every time I read the Linden blog.  There's always a load of complaints, and a frequently expressed feeling that LL doesn't care about its users...

It's true that they can be rather ham-handed-- especially I think when the lawyers get involved.  For instance, they got spooked last year about asinine stories of ( Read more... )

Desmond  Warzel has written a perfect and hilarious, tiny little time travel story:

http://www.abyssandapex.com/200710-wikihistory.html

I was sleeping (I'm sick), and dreamed that I was putting out several books I'd written in highway rest stops-- three copies each.  There were at least five titles, which is (for anyone who is keeping score) more than I have actually written.  Even in the dream I realized that there would be a problem if anyone bought one: there wasn't any ( Read more... )