Looks like New Orleans isn't all that. This is a large gallery of photos taken in Venice during Carnivale. So elaborate and intricate and beautiful and dazzling and entertaining and ( Read more... )

For all of you non-Jersey folks, take a gander here and get some learnin'.

So I decided to just go for it and take the train up to Jersey for the weekend. I was lucky enough to find round trip tickets for under $150, so I was pleased. I was also very excited - having never ridden trains long distance in this country before. I remembered how cool it was taking trains all over Europe and I guess I just romanticized the ( Read more... )

Warning, this is a link to very graphic images. I'm not linking to this for the shock value, or to try to gross anyone out. However, I think it's important to remember that we are waging a questionable war, and that it's not a video game, and that it's hurting and killing innocent people. War is hell.

So, we're supposedly freeing the Iraqis. OK, that sounds noble. But how is forcing Iraqi farmers to buy American produced seeds "freeing" them? Thanks to Wedge over at MoFi for bringing this to my attention.

Why are things like this not publicized? Where is the outrage? WTF is up with the American media?

Go check this link out. From my friends at MonkeyFilter. I look really freaky as a Mucha painting. (Don't even get me started on the anime one.)

Apparently the government doesn't like to pay for heat. It is now 12:45 and I'm still sitting here at my desk in my long, wool coat. I still can't feel my feet. And I think my fingertips are what you'd call permafrost. Granted, it was a long weekend, but you'd think that someone would have the sense to set the heat to come on long before anyone ( Read more... )

Today's W update...

So, it's OK to take your lunchbreak for an hour, in someone else's cube, talking to them while they try to do work, and THEN take an additional hour at the company gym? Why didn't anyone tell me about this? I've been doing it wrong for years!

After hunting high and low for a few days, I finally got my hands on a copy of World of Warcraft. I've been itching to play again since the beta testing ended before the holidays. So far, I've got an undead mage named Leffe (the people I'm playing with decided that we should all have beer names, so of course I picked one of my favorite Belgian ( Read more... )

You have to be a special kind of stupid to think that this is a good idea. The outrage I feel can't even begin to be expressed in words. Please - can we all expose these fucking ignorant pricks for what they are???