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karaoke
Leave it to the Americans to take a Japanese pastime and turn it into an experiment in voluntary public humiliation. -
lactose intolerant (means I hate dairy products)
Today, I'd like to talk to you folks about two very, very simple words ( Read more... ) -
wrong animal
I'm sitting here on my couch next to my darling wife, watching baseball, and I wanted something to amuse myself. I decided to go to one of my favorite time-wasters, but much to my shagrin, my mind totally blanked on the animal kingdom. I typed in "www.albinoblackfish.com". The site exists, though it is only a placeholder. Still... how in the ( Read more... ) -
desert island
You're stuck on a desert island with an enchanted Diskman of Infinite Battery Life, but you can only have 5 CD's. Greatest Hits don't count. What are they? -
Small Blessings
This is NOT one of those lame, cheesy recycled posts or forwards about counting your blessings every day and stopping to smell the roses. No, this happened to me last night during dinner.
I had arrived home late, around 7:00 or so, and dinner was still cooking (much thanks to my wonderful wife). Twenty minutes later, we'd just sat down to a dinner ( Read more... ) -
Hell hath no fury...
My mother sent me this lovely example of motherly love and/or vengeance. Posted verbatim. I swear, the name is just a coincidence.
Brian invited his mother over for dinner. During the course of the meal, Brian's mother couldn't help but keep noticing how beautiful Brian's roommate, Stephanie, was. Brian's Mom had long been suspicious of a ( Read more... ) -
The Gettysburg Address, as delivered by Yoda
If to help cleaning the last half of the last paragraph, anybody wants, eternally in their debt I would be.
Four score and seven years ago, on this continent a new nation our fathers brought forth, in liberty conceived, and to the proposition that created equal all men are, dedicated ( Read more... ) -
rackin' frackin'
fucking godddamn stupid unnecessary redundant quarterly review that was due two months ago but I didn't do it 'cause I was filling out my -yearly- review instead so I don't know why I still need to do a -quarterly- review but I do 'cause my supervisor said so and I was supposed to do it a month ago but I've been too fucking busy with the stypid ( Read more... ) -
Our Online Selves
Being both technically and spiritually minded, I've been treading the waters of technopaganism. It's an interesting philosophy that is starting to resonate with me, though I have found more humorous references to it online than I have serious ones. I recently joined the technopaganism LJ community, and one fellow (I use that word genderlessly) posted an ( Read more... )