Too tired to write much of a blurb, but I gave 1072 what-for again in Local.

( Cut once more for LONG. )

For all you first-time visitors (Farlight), you may get more out of this with some background. For everyone else who sees this, enjoy!

So basically, in my space game, some assholes tried to declare war on us and ended up biting off way more than they could chew. So they backed down, and things went well for a few hours (I got one guy to agree to ( Read more... )

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As far as I can tell, this is on a scale from 1-39. There is no zero, there is no forty. What the shit? But whatever - thanks be to Jack for the linkage!

Also, it turns out that "using ten percent of your brain" thing is bullshit. (It's apparently based on old science, when neuroscientists ( Read more... )

They don't think we're incorrect, or at least they refuse to say as much, they just want us to shut up and take a back seat.

Today's (what? I got distracted!) Yesterday's Daylight Atheism links to an article (as well as some other scintillating reading material) where... well, shit, Adam said it better already, so just read it there ( Read more... )

...but all I can think of is the Light Grenade. I've taken to reading Daylight Atheism (the blog of Andrew Marczyk, as read on Ebon Musings), and it's good stuff. Today's post talks about torture, and links to this Straight Dope thread where a guy provides a firsthand account of waterboarding himselfI didn't really know what waterboarding was ( Read more... )

Picture a six-year-old girl singing this while banging on the Rock Band drum kit:Silent night
Holy night
Cows are boring
Sheeps are stupid
Now everyone knows this is a stupid song

Silent night
Holy duck
Dogs are cool
Everyone else is boring
Now you know that I like dogs
Sure, you kinda had to be there, but still... I can't exactly not tell anyone ( Read more... )

I have a makeshift voice amplification device at my desk. Some bullshit corporate-sponsored hoo-ha resulted in everyone at the center getting these vaguely cone-shaped trinkets that could be used as megaphones but for the fact that they've got little plastic what's-its covering the narrow ends. So it will stand, I guess. Maybe. I don't know ( Read more... )

Sure, he moved to Canada, but I believe Piotr Staniaszek is still Polish. Also from Canada, Santa's an asshole (perverse curiosity makes me want to read some of these letters - and, now that I put it that way, I hope they were just cuss-laden or spoiling, and not actually perverse).

Also, I don't care what PETA says, I want glow-in-the-dark ( Read more... )

Silliness.

So I went to an orthopedist yesterday and explained how I had managed to dislocate my patella by rocking too hard, and he told me, "You know, this may surprise you, but this isn't the first time I've heard that exact story." I asked him to clarify (I believe my exact words were, "No shit?"), and he went on to explain that he, ( Read more... )

So yeah, Craig posted a stirring tale of last night's events. He said it better than I expect to be able to, so I'll leave it at that. Anyway, just to let everyone know, I'm doing fine. The morphine has worn off (aww...), and I'm not in any pain. I'll see an orthopedist tomorrow, and I plan on filling my prescription for Vicodin, and we'll see ( Read more... )