And in the category of Thoughts I Want To Share But Not On Facebook: I really like the Sex and the City episode where Miranda almost has an abortion. And, I mean, not in the same way I like any really Very Special Episode. I really think SATC did a good job with it.

I have finally, much later than I should have, switched my LJ-notifying e-mail address from AOL to Gmail. So now I should actually see notices of replies or comments in a somewhat timely manner, for what it's worth. (And I'll probably go from checking my AOL e-mail address about once every two weeks to once every six months.)

At 6:36 PM tonight, I finally completed the task of watching all nine of this year's Best Picture nominees, with just under two hours before the ceremony ( Read more... )

I don't find it THAT weird that Amity Shlaes managed to become a senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations despite having absolutely no idea what the carrot-and-stick metaphor is about; I think How I Met Your Mother's episode about "knowledge gaps" does a pretty good job justifying such an occurrence ( Read more... )

I already posted about this on Facebook, but: someone sent me season 3 of Parks & Recreation from Amazon, and I'm not sure who, because it arrived in a bubble mailer with absolutely nothing else inside. (But the return address said Amazon.) I was thrilled to receive it and I'd love to thank the sender, and honestly I bet I do know who sent it, but ( Read more... )

The holidays are pretty much over. (Although my naked tree is still in our living room because they haven't even announced yet when they'll be picking up our trees! I even called today to make sure we hadn't just missed it, but it's not even scheduled yet! Isn't that weird ( Read more... )

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I saw a few minutes of Space Chimps on TV this morning. WOW is the animation in that movie terrible. Like a first-year student's unfinished class project.

WHY, WHY, WHY is it that when news sites print numbers consisting of a numeral and a fraction, they never include a space between them (but they do include spaces around the line in the fraction) with the result that one-and-a-half will always appear as "11 / 2"? (edit: Here's an example, in the second letter.) This drives me absolutely nuts ( Read more... )

11:11 11/11/11!