For about 20 years, I've been bookmarking internet articles in my browser and thinking "I'll come back and read this later". I now have hundreds of articles bookmarked that I've never read.

I decided to start cleaning up my bookmarks and finally reading those articles. I thought "This will take forever". But no, it's been quite speedy, because ( Read more... )

Voting has concluded today on a ("non-binding") referendum in Australia about same-sex marriage. Now there's nothing left to do but wait for the votes to be counted ( Read more... )

I prefer to buy physical books over e-books. Part of that is because I think physical books look nice on the bookshelf. But, I keep lending my favourite books to other people and then I forget who I leant them to. So my bookshelf ends up being a non-impressive collection of mediocre books.

Hopefully those books are looking nice on somebody else's

Me and my coworkers took this joke from the Simpsons and made it real. (This bird stops our build machine from going to sleep.)

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Instead of "Have a good day", the Hispanic guy at my local bodega says "Happy good day", and honestly I think I prefer it.

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Warning: the Lana Del Rey song "Lust for Life" is not a cover of the Iggy Pop song.

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I just noticed that the "Bean Curd in Garlic Sauce" I usually order is described as "fish fragrance bean curd" in Chinese. Probably not as vegetarian as I was hoping :-(

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It's not too late, Melania. You can still murder him in his sleep.

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I've switched to a 'plus' account so I can post messages by SMS. If the ads get annoying, I might even get buy a paid account.

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I downloaded Duolingo for my phone. It's the free app that every seems to be using for language learning these days. It's pretty great ( Read more... )