I have seen this game touted in at least two journals, with no warnings, and I wanted to warn others who might be as distressed as I am. The game is called "Puppy Shelter", and ostensibly it is a puzzle game to "train" cute little puppies to get them adopted-- 15 levels. The problem is that after you train the puppies, the shelter opens for ( Read more... )

OK, enough already with the heat! Temps over 100 every day for a month, with no end in sight was bad enough. Temps of 110 every day this week, causing rolling blackouts, is even worse. But now the light rail is warning of delays of up to half an hour during afternoon commutes because the tracks are getting up to 140-160 and the trains must slow ( Read more... )

I'm afraid I made a woman blush in public today. I went out to eat with some friends at a nice restraunt. It was a little crowded, so we were at a booth in the bar. It was noisy, but not so noisy that we couldn't hear this woman a couple of tables, with a particularly loud and piercing voice ( Read more... )

I have recently discovered Translation Party which apparently uses Google to translate back and forth between English and Japanese until you keep getting the same translation. I have spent way too much time amusing myself with this ( Read more... )

Wildfires burned thousands of acres of north Texas yesterday, wiping out whole small towns and rural areas. The local NPR station tonight interviewed one man who spoke of just loading up his family and their dog in the car and making a run for it. Then this miserable excuse for a human being said "We just took the cats and threw them out of the ( Read more... )

My boss is going to drive me crazy! She was today, once again bemoaning how this country is doomed to death and destruction since our new President was elected. She firmly believes that Sadam Hussein was in bed with Al Qaida in planning 9-11; that Hussein had large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction and that we found them; that 95% of all ( Read more... )

Woman says anti-abortion nurse removed IUD without permission then lectured her.

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So I was watching a Law and Order:SVU the other day. It was all about this woman Marine who was raped by a superior officer in Iraq and gets pregnant. Once she is stateside, she goes AWOL as the only way she can get to this specialized (civilian) counseling program for women who were in the military and were raped or assaulted by their fellow ( Read more... )

My company is having open enrollment this month, where people pick insurance plans & other benefit options. There is one screen where you enter or verify information for Insured, Spouse and Dependents (Name, DOB, SSN, etc). For the first time, there is are Male/Female ticky boxes for both Insured AND Spouse. The times they are a-changing (though ( Read more... )

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage/relationship (or if you think you might be someday), and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.OK, so my marriage is a failure. My goal is to have the divorce final before my 25th anniversary next May. The problem is ( Read more... )