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Enjoy the following lovely piece of mysterious poetry, reproduced verbatim in all its spambot glory:

From Margret Smallwood To norumbegan ( Read more... )

1. ten-toe taxi: the highly advanced mode of transportation otherwise known as traveling by foot.
2. space waitress: flight attendant. This may be the best phrase ever.

It rained this afternoon (for all of forty-five minutes). As far as I can tell, I'm the only person in the entire Bay Area who's happy about this.

I get the YD"N" headlines every day, and this morning found myself reading this article.

My approach to gaining potential energy when inside a building is precisely opposed to Gariepy's: "When confronted with the choice between taking the stairs and riding the elevator, I always use the elevator. I’ve given up, really, and made a blanket rule ( Read more... )

**Freunde der Zahl Pi (non-German speakers will still appreciate photos of the initiation ceremonies of all the members!)
**wikipedia entry on Pi Day
**If you're in San Francisco, check out the Exploratorium's celebrations.
**Some suggestions on how to celebrate
**The website calling itself "official website for pi day"
**Pi to 4194304 digits ( Read more... )

I was just wondering ...

I always learned that snuck is not a word because sneaked is the proper past tense of the verb to sneak. But where the heck does snuck come from? Streak and creak have regular endings, and the past tense of speak is spoke ... isn't it mysterious that sneak-snoke sounds so obviously wrong yet sneak-snuck makes sense?

I just received the following email: From: optimistically
Subject: longitudinal couldn't

endearing ( Read more... )

They are so nefarious and computer-savvy.

Whoever invented the leafblower should have his tendons grated away, slowly, so that the fibers sproing back one by one like threads in a taut rope that's being sawed in two.

There are many reasons for this.